Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
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Synonyms: Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, The Town of Evening Calm, The Country of Cherry Blossoms
Japanese: 夕凪の街 桜の国
English: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 3
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 16, 2003 to Oct 12, 2004
Genres: Award Winning Award Winning, Drama Drama, Slice of Life Slice of Life
Theme: Historical Historical
Serialization: Manga Action
Authors: Kouno, Fumiyo (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #40992
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Popularity: #2267
Members: 8,514
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Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever...
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.

Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.

The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!

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Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni won the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival's Grand Prize in the manga category in 2004. In 2005, it received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Creative Award.

It was published in English as Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Last Gasp on February 2, 2007, with a reprint on February 25, 2015. It has also been published in French by Kana, Spanish by Glenat, Italian by Ronin Manga and Portuguese by JBC Mangás.

The manga has inspired a radio drama, a novel, and an award-winning live action movie.

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Jun 5, 2016
BlueKite
Recommended
Town of Evening Calm is a glimpse of how the survivors of the atomic bomb cope up with its aftermath, a period when Japan is still slowly recovering from the damage it received during wartime. The manga is beautifully drawn, forming a lighthearted atmosphere that fits well with the melancholic narrative. It reminds me a lot of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

The manga is split into two stories that are connected. The cast of the first story is the Hirano family, and how they dealt with the loss of family members and rebuilding their lives again. One observation by the main character Hirano Minami is that ...
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Oct 7, 2010
alexalgebra
Recommended
This manga is an historical piece about the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Obviously, it's not completely uplifting, but it has its moments. Overall, however, I found a lot of it fairly predictable and not all that eye-opening, in terms of giving me some additional historical competence. I was hoping to feel like I'd been to post-war Hiroshima after reading this, but I just felt like I'd read a comic book. Bummer.

Nevertheless, it's not a complete waste of time. It's cute in parts, touching in parts, and if you're into historical drama, it's worth picking up.
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