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| Bittersweet ending was just perfect for a manga like this. Still wanted Isobe to find happiness. Ohh well. Playing Kaze wo Atsumete on the background while reading the last few chapters made it 10x better. 7/10 |
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| Loved the ending, mainly because I really HATED Koume, and was just satisfied seeing her crying and heart broken :3 She was just a selfish, toxic, attention whore throught the whole thing, when she told Isobe he should have killed himself like he said before, I wanted him to kill her off on the spot, lol. Other than that I guess I enjoyed this short series. Artstyle was WONDERFUL, my first time reading Asano, gotta check out his other works, even of just for this. As for the story... I don't think all the meaningless sex scenes were that necessary. I like stories where characters' sexuality is somehow connected to their development, not just fanservice, sadly here it felt like it was too much at times. I'd rather have explained how Isobe's brother died, and why Isobe was later shown to be turned out by wearing girl's skirt. I guess it was just to show he's getting more and more corrupted, shame there was nothing more to that, and it didn't really go anywhere. Good, but these themes could have been explored a little better, I guess. 7.5/10 |
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| Like teh rest of dis moan-gah, fook 'd' ending. ....autocorrect be damned. |
KrunchymanJan 4, 2020 4:45 AM
| a bitter-sweet ending... I loved it 10/10 |
| “Life is a constant process of dying.” |
| Was it Isbobu and the girl from the picture kissing before Sato said “the sea”? |
| solid manga, not so fond of the ending tho, but it was meant to be short so it's acceptable. Maybe deep down isobe loved satou, he said those things to get her to move on. It worked out. |
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| This was such a snoozefest. The characters were so fucking boring and one note. The story was the equivalent of stale white bread. |
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| Garbage ending but whatever. Art was incredible which carried it |
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Stellio said: Asano you are going to kill me one day with the sheer impact of your works. Sex is but a complicated issue and the subject of sex with high schoolers is of even more turbulence, ambiguity, and loss: and Asano manages to capture the scope of this seamlessly. I'd have to say this manga personally resonated with me just as equally as Punpun did, and I'll definitely look back on this manga with fondness. One particularly interesting conflict though, is Isobe's clashes with his inner thoughts and society. He's a coward. He's quite frankly unmotivated to do most things; a dormant contributor to society. One could even say his personality is so banal that he's easily replaceable. However, I think Asano did an exceptional job to implicitly express his inner frustrations with silent, still scenes that conveyed his helplessness, and his dead brother's impact on him. Sato had sex with him because of his passive personality, and loved him for being like so as well. And why is that so? because he was there for her, no other essential reasons really. Litrydow said: Welp, the ending was certainly stupid and underwhelming, though the rest of the manga was great. 8/10 The ending was certainly contentious in how self-sacrificing Isobe was depicted to be, and how the relationship ended up being. However, more than anything, it was overwhelming and even heroic in how much effort Isobe was willing to put in to incite Sato's gradual change. I think Asano meant to imply that Isobe was also deeply in love with Sato, and if they had gotten together, Isobe saw no future for themselves (considering their casual sex relationship as well). So he wanted for Sato to move on, and a hard pill to swallow it was for him too. A thing I love about Asano is how willingly he is to challenge the fairy-tale romanticization of love, relationships, and sex. Instead of an ultimate resolve, he greets us with pessimistic, bittersweet, and profound lessons that deal with human issues within a modern-day context. In this case, it's that casual sex is a selfish excuse for both partners, and perhaps even a small commitment from the start is the difference between saving the relationship or not. A bittersweet lesson from Asano is the best. Always eager for more. I am pretty damn sure that, by the end, he hates her guts. As the story moves forward he slowly but surely falls out of love with her, as he understands how selfish she really is. I hadn't really understood this before the second read, but he is right: it really is all about her. She can't even express affection without being selfish, despite how obviously he is hurting in his isolation and grief for his brother. The months that passed between their last contact before Sato's confession were the nail in the coffin, really. Isobe wasn't lying when he denied her the kiss - he wasn't going to let her manipulate him until the very end. She "moved on", but only because she was forced to, and she didn't really change a lot. She still acts selfishly when with her boyfriend later on. Isobe really did grow and move on, and perhaps learned a few interesting things about himself in the process. |
Lease_of_LifeJun 13, 2021 1:39 AM
| "I will become his world and will make him my world" - You really should know who said this. "Firing at unarmed citizens is a feat that those without courage and a chivalrous spirit simply cannot accomplish." - Oskar von Reuenthal "No way Spirited Away is better than Akira. NO WAY." - Kanye West |
Monochrosanity said: This was such a snoozefest. The characters were so fucking boring and one note. The story was the equivalent of stale white bread. That is the entire point... |
| "I will become his world and will make him my world" - You really should know who said this. "Firing at unarmed citizens is a feat that those without courage and a chivalrous spirit simply cannot accomplish." - Oskar von Reuenthal "No way Spirited Away is better than Akira. NO WAY." - Kanye West |
| This ending is a bit of a bummer. If the author had properly fleshed out a suicide attempt instead of ditching, and especially if the main couple ended up together, this would have easily become one of my favorites. Other than that, it was a fantastic read. |
| Don't really know how to feel about this ending. She ended up with a kind of happy future and a boyfriend she can trust. But that was not what she was looking for. ''A girl on the shore'' a girl that was looking for the sea. Don't know what happend to the guy but he probably went to that school or died. Art was good, story was weird. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| Terrible manga. Varies between straight up porn and vapid edgy bullshit. Also seemed lowkey misogynistic, but hey what dyou expect |
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| it hurted to read this manga. |
| So far, I've read all of Inio Asano's manga, except for Solanin, DDDDD, and Oyasumi Punpun. Or any homosexual stories he's done. Thus, to be fair, I don't know yet how truly good or bad he is as a writer. But out everything I've read so far, none of those manga are great. His only very good manga are his debut; What a Wonderful World, and Downfall. Everything else is either decent, mediocre or bad. While some one-shots, individually are better than others. His psychological portrayal (theme) on the meaning of life is always clear. There's a few problems on practically all of his stories though... Most are forced and exaggerated which becomes unrealistic or implausible to how his characters act. Especially teenagers. Emo, uncaring, suicidal or murderous teenagers is real, but the way he establishes them to be is poorly done. It's not convincing or feels real at all, that it just looks forced. His other faults is how there's never much structure. Life is unpredictable, but his stories as a whole are mostly messy, unstructured, chaotic... and end up becoming lackluster, with little meaning because it's all over the place. This story included. Teenagers kinda using each other, sex, not being honest, wasting their lives, hating each other... two troubled brats. Whatever. Then, after being suicidal, hurting the ones who caused his older brother to commit suicide, he drastically changes with a sudden surge of confidence after asking out the random girl from this unknown SD card. The female lead finally reveals her feelings, but he rejects her. Rightfully so, because she never- whatever, they're fucked. 4/10. It's a mess of an exaggerated story. Somewhat decent, but very flawed. |
| Story aside the visceral art would keep me engaged for hours trying to find the details in every panel.The shade ,the colour,the realistic proportions and scenery is wonderfull to look at.The story is a simple narration on a convulated past of a character which shapes his future and present.He is a gray character chained due to circumstances ,dwindling between an effort to live and end it all. His hate for himself swallows him and resigns into self inflicted harm which propels the vicious cycle.This chapter felt filler though ,wonder why the author tried to give it an ending, and failed, when it was evident he plucked a segment of one's life which doesnt have a defined prologue or a epilogue. 7/10 |
| I’m glad that Isobe and Sato ended up each going their own way because it would’ve felt forced if they ended up together because they simple aren’t the kinds of people who are meant for each other. I’m also glad that Isobe seems to have changed for the better, and that even tho it might’ve came off as harsh in the moment he didn’t let himself waver at seeing Sato cry. I do however wish she and Kashima ended up together, seeing that they have so much chemistry. I just don’t like the idea of Otsu "devoting" himself to Sato because it feels like the same scenario will happen all over again, one anxiously attached person idealizing their avoidant partner. |
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