Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru

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Japanese: 水は海に向かって流れる

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 24

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 9, 2018 to Jul 9, 2020

Genres: Romance, Shounen, Slice of Life

Authors: Tajima, Rettou (Story & Art)

Serialization: Bessatsu Shounen Magazine

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Ranked: #2305²

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MangaBessatsu Shounen MagazineTajima, Rettou (Story & Art)

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The story of a family of five strangers living under one roof.

(Source: Nautiljon, translated)

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Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru ranked fifth in the 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the male readers category, and was nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award.

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Oct 21, 2020

24 of 24 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

rotanrotan1 (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

Initial review:

The demographic tag says Shounen, but with the story's themes, I think it would be much more appreciated by an older demographic.

Short but sweet, humorous but mature. I expected that I would feel the same as I would in typical drama; especially with the premise sounding like a typical affair drama. No, as I read through the first stages of the story, I felt I had this toneless expression (much like Sakaki-san) when their baggage are being slowly hinted. This is not to say that it was a bad thing, I'm not sure if I am/will be making sense when I say that I read more

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Sep 28, 2020

24 of 24 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

apep23 (All reviews)

0 people found this review helpful

Proceed with care.

This review might have some mild spoiler to it's content. So I hope you understand and still give it a try after reading this.

Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru, a mild drama based story that takes place in a certain household that have many character and people in there. Story start when Naotatsu when entering a certain high school that demands him to commute long distance from his house and decide to take his uncle recommendation to live in his "house". Little did he know in the house that he boarded, there are a certain people there not just his uncle. The plot itself thicken when he met Sakaki whom he misinterpreted by saying that she is his uncle girlfriend.

[Story: 10]
After meeting with Sakaki, he then knows everything that happen in the past and then he tried to be big man trying to solve all of his feeling towards what happen down in the line. Not to mention Sakaki's life do actually change from time to time when she splurged any details about their past. The plot do thicken from each chapters but nevertheless, their comedy always spot on to relieve the tense in between. The formula that the author give are so good compare to other mild drama series that I had toward the years of my journey, they gives a serious vibes but never stopped giving me time to get relieve in every chapter. I think this fact gives it 10 from my point of view.

[Art: 8]
Not that the art was bad, but the way it is like they are a HD rough sketch that often still in the draft. It's not bad, but it's not the best. But not gonna lie, I actually liked this art and it's refreshing to watch that the author like gives this old style (in my opinion) types of art in this new modern type of series.

[Character: 10]
The characterization is very good by miles. Every character have their ups and downs in their life, but they keep supporting the main character to the point they have to give them self hard time to understand the other feeling and they had to reciprocate to every talk they has and put them self on other shoes. It's a good feeling for me reading and understand the characters in my own way.

Not gonna lie, when I read the first 2 chapters, I already know the reason that this manga ranked fifth in 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoii! award. The depth of the story, the characterization and many more aspect that I don't remember because of my joy feeling when reading this has failed me in this review itself. The ending itself are not that easy to guess when you start the first chaps, and the author wrap that in the way that we can agree on.

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Apr 28, 2020

15 of 24 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

cjavad (All reviews)

6 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

[Introduction]
Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru is a different kind of story from the action-packed, fast-paced shounen's or the overly exaggerated SoLs one might have grown used to.

In this review I won't be doing too much into the details of what the story revolves around, nor will I dig too deep into each of the characters as individuals, but I'll try to give my honest opinion and feel for this title as a whole.

[Story][8/10]

First of all, by focusing the story around a single event it gives the entire story flow and allocates some kind of meaning to everything that is happening in the story. With this, every chapter seems fresh and it contributes to the story somehow and gives a form of excitement that we can share with the characters moving into the plot.

The only downside to this would be it makes the pacing very slow, and given the fact, each chapter spans no more than 21 pages, progression comes slowly. Though in some ways this contributes to the story at other times it doesn't.

[Characters][9/10]

One of the advantages this manga has is its limited cast and fixated settings. The main story centres around 5 different people living under the same roof, but the main conflict actually involves both our main cast and the people related to them from outside places.

The reason this is possible is that all the characters have some kind of connection with each other, other than just simply living under the same roof. Whether it be family as in the case of our protagonist Naotatsu-kun and his Uncle or if it's due to Sakaki-san's mother that has a history with Naotatsu's father, these bonds bring the entire set of characters together, both for the better and for the worse.

The main story also focuses a lot about how the characters progress in relation to each other, this chaining of events in terms of character development works very well to push the plot forward.

This also means that the variety in the characters no matter how deep they might be (their backstory, feelings etc.) is somewhat limited due to their connectivity.

[Art][7/10]

This is one of the things that is very subjective. From a personal standpoint, I absolutely adore this style of drawing manga Tajima-sensei uses, the clear black outlines to the clear backgrounds and messy hairstyles. But coming from different art styles (typically those from more popular manga) I can see the reason for maybe not feeling all too motivated reading this.

In the end, the art very much matches the words spoken, so I can only recommend you to get used to it and learn to enjoy it. There is a certain charm about the art in Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru.

[Conclusion][9/10]

This is far one of the better slice of life manga out there, and the topics discussed combined with the very realistic approach to life, makes a perfect blend of a Monday wake up call to reality. There isn't really anybody I wouldn't recommend this too, as long as you can have peace with it's not some action-packed laser-shooting shounen, and I definitely look forward to how the series will be concluded when it reaches that point.

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