Guyabano Holiday

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Synonyms: Ie wo Tateru, Shukudai no Mechanism, Gakushuu Kotatsu, Kanzume no Tsukurikata, Inchiki Nikkijutsu, Hikaku Hato-gaku Nyuumon, Guuzen no Kehai, Shiranai Natsu, Kyoka 2, Suizokukan nite, Fugou, Itsumo no Tokoro de Machiawase, Imozuru Wonderland

Japanese: グヤバノ・ホリデー

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 21

Status: Finished

Published: May 5, 2015 to Dec 15, 2018

Genres: Slice of Life, Supernatural

Demographic: Josei

Serialization: Rakuen Web Zoukan

Authors: panpanya (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.38¹ (scored by 181 users)

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Ranked: #4098²

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Popularity: #21802

Members: 530

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Synopsis

1. Ie wo Tateru
2. Shukudai no Mechanism
3. Gakushuu Kotatsu
4. Kanzume no Tsukurikata
5. Inchiki Nikkijutsu
6-13. Guyabano Holiday
14. Hikaku Hato-gaku Nyuumon
15. Guuzen no Kehai
16. Shiranai Natsu
17. Kyoka 2
18. Suizokukan nite
19. Fugou
20. Itsumo no Tokoro de Machiawase
21. Imozuru Wonderland

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Guyabano Holiday was published in English by Denpa on December 6, 2022.

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Dec 6, 2022

potentialPizza

Recommended

Guyabano Holiday is a work of genius, and yet if you’ve been following panpanya’s work, that’s hardly even a statement to make. After the dreamlike Ashizuri Aquarium and the surreal An Invitation from a Crab, Guyabano Holiday is practically a victory lap. Of course panpanya makes manga this good, of course one of the most memorable artists and interesting minds in the industry continues to impress.

You can’t apply a neat timeline to this, of course — Guyabano Holiday is a collection of short stories from throughout the years, so it’s not a clean progression from the prior work. Yet there are still comparisons to be ...

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Dec 29, 2023

indigo_dreamer

Recommended

I want to divide this brief review into two parts: my review of the manga proper, and why it encouraged me to go out to a shady fruit market to buy a guyabano.

To me, the takeaway from this manga is appreciating novel experiences. Our childhoods felt like they dragged on for so long because they were packed full of them, and your brain was taking in so much new information. Guyabano Holiday, to my mind, recommends living in emulation of that stage of your life, minus the incontinence and crying thankfully. Mixed in with this is also cultivating an anticipation for what you may not ... have experienced yet (see the short story where panpanya walks through a memory of their local area), and also a mindfulness of the world around you even down to the most minute detail (see potentialPizza's review). All of the stories in this manga revolve around these themes, and if you enjoy such a premise then I would definitely recommend you give it a shot!

The primary weakness of all manga and comics, in my opinion, is the period of time that are left in between panels. The audience is required to the fill in the gaps using the information that has been provided on the page to construct an internal chronology of the scene in question (how long the events are taking, where things are in relation to each other, etc), which detracts from the 'immersion'. However, I don't think any of panpanya's manga suffer from this common pitfall in the slightest. At no point in Guyabano Holiday are you under the illusion that what you're reading has any grounding in reality, even the paramount story in this manga - panpanya's quest to buy guyabanos - is of tentative plausibility. At most they're dream diaries, and we only know that in some cases because panpanya just outright says so. You might think they sound reasonable enough to have actually happened, but you don't know that! The fact that you don't know to what degree the story is fiction or not just adds to its charm. Novel experience is wonderful, whether it's something you actually went out and did, or a story that you read.

For these reasons, I see this manga as very positive and uplifting. If panpanya can go out, into the rather dull cityscape of (iirc) Tokyo, and find enjoyment in just about anything, why can't I? As a consequence, I made it my mission to find a guyabano, called soursop in my country, because up until I read this manga I'd never even heard of it. True to form it was rather difficult, and after reading through old blogs written by gen x mums a decade ago, I was able to find a local south-east Asian fruit market that was purported to have them somewhere. My friend and myself spent about an hour or so wandering around in heatstroke-inducing temperatures. Eventually, as we were navigating through a shop shielded from the sun with a green tarp and squeezing past an old Vietnamese man who was packing boxes full of various fruit and veggies to look through the aisles inside, I saw it through the corner of my eye, a guyabano sitting on the checkout counter! I was joyous and immediately purchased it with my friend's money - cash only and quite expensive. Once I got home I cut it in half, got my spoon out, had a mouthful... and it was mid, I'm sorry to say. Too many seeds and the taste kinda hits too quickly, very overpowering. Still not the worst fruit I've ever had, not by a long shot. I have posted a link to a pic of the guyabano we bought on my profile (I can't post it in this review because of the woke mob)

Without panpanya I never would've tried such a strange fruit. I never would've gone to this weird part of my city that I had never been to before, not have had a nice day out with a friend, and not have seen the strangest looking Vietnamese catholic church I'd ever seen in my life. It takes a certain kind of manga to inspire me to actually leave the house in summer, but this one managed! Recommended!