Barakamon

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Er, this is my first review but here goes.
When I first saw this manga I was reluctant to read it cause I didn't think it would be interesting since it had calligraphy which I think is boring and a cliche setting of a new guy in town.
But after reading the first few chapters I realized that I enjoy this manga quite a lot since it has some very funny scenes and has a semi-original story/setting about how a guy who is good at what he does but not the best so he goes to some random place and finds inspiration.

Anyway the art is very ... good and although it does not go into much detail about all the character it is still funny since you know what each character is like such as the guy who is nice but pretends to be a delinquent and the MC who is extremely into calligraphy and the school girl whos into BL manga interpreting situations as real life BL.

It shows everyday situations and events in a new funny way like most slice of life stories. With a hilarious solution to the problems that occur each time.

Barakamon is a slice-of-life style manga that has grown into its own from its creation a little over 9 years ago.

I love this manga in its simplicity, originality, light-heartedness, and the specialized passion within each of its characters.

While the bulk of this manga centers on Seishu Handa, a calligrapher trying to find his own way, there is adequate time to give every character around him depth and their own life besides their relationship with him. Every character is given a chance to grow and change in ways that I have seen other mangas push aside or assign to a single chapter.

Throughout the ... series so far, there have been small fun and sometimes familiar twists to the plot, with funny and occasional slapstick humor to keep you around. While there is a touch of predictability, the main idea is still so original that it never really becomes a turn off.

This series is uplifting, funny, and engaging. The anime does a good job of condensing the first couple novels, but luckily the manga is around so you can catch-up on the continuing antics of these characters in their small village.

Particularly recommended for those that enjoy Yotsuba to! and the like.

tl;dr: A manga about someone completely out of their element that starts off strong with good character growth, but that gets less interesting as they get more used to their environment and their character arcs results in them being less amusing.

This manga is about a calligrapher, Handa, that has an overtly strong sense of pride despite being completely incompetent at everything despite calligraphy and who isn’t very considerate of others which results in various issues. To combat this, he is forced to live in a small village on a rural island, where due to the change in environment as well as how everyone in the ... village forces themselves into his life, he ends up going through growth.

The first third or so of the manga, which is the portion of the anime adapts, handles this really well. Handa is an amusing character who is heavily flawed but seems like a good person at heart, and he goes through very clear slow and steady growth which as a result of him being pretty likable is satisfying to see. Watching him interact with the rest of the villagers was also amusing due to how much variety there was to the interactions as the cast is pretty large and have a pretty diverse set of personalities and they all seemed to clearly be having an influence on him. I found Handa being a fish out of water in a rural environment also acted as a good lens for me as I have absolutely no experience with rural living either, and hence could very easily put myself in his shoes. Seeing everyone else living their lives out there was interesting as well. The cast and environment also work well for the comedy which is overall pretty solid.

I think the manga begins to decline in quality after the first third though. In terms of character development Handa does grow further, but I’m not really a fan of where that growth took him. It felt too sudden and not built up too properly, and the resulting Handa just wasn’t as interesting as the one that was purely an artist. There’s also a lot of emphasis on the stories of other characters, but they all felt pretty wishy washy without anything too major happening. The manga was much more just the story of people just living their lives without any particularly exceptional stories occurring, but I also found myself getting more bored with the setting because as Handa got used to it, it was simply less of something interesting in and of itself. In terms of characters too things felt like they weren’t changing too much, wherein while there were lots of new characters introduced, none of them really stood out as much as the older characters did at first. There was a pretty major exception to that, but she was actually a character that wasn’t a resident of the village but rather Tokyo who only appeared briefly and was then dropped entirely. The comedy still has its high points, but that too started getting kind of repetitive as it played on the same personality traits for the most part. The endings were decent enough I suppose, both the ending in the 18th volume and the extra ending in the 18+1 volume, but it didn’t feel like they had all that much impact. The art was okay but nothing special.

This manga was serialization in gangan online and Yoshino Satsuki as author.Now this manga still airing at vol 14 on Japan.This manga also got an anime adaptation on summer 2014 and get high success in my opinion

The story is about young calligrapher Handa Seishu that punching old-famous calligrapher only because his critics on his calligraph.And his punishment is exiled to rural island named Goto Island.As someone who has never lived outside of a city,we can see how Handa adapt with rural island neigbours,different between city and rural lifestyle, etc.And that make it special is the manga are filled by heartwarming and some moral value besides ... comedy-slice of life atmosphere.(8/10)[7,7]that only make it bad is the comedy-slice of life formula is may boring for us if we read it non-stop(read all vol on 1-2 days)

The art on this manga is 'fine'.Some background is drawn well,but in few panel is not filled by backround.After some vol, i'd see many character inconsistant drawing on mangaka.The first-looking of characters looks different if i compare to the latest vol,but i already find a consistance with character's draw on mangaka(in vol 5 until i read now while this review made on vol 9)(5/10)[5,2]

On characters,i'd only see Handa characters change on manner,his calligraph result, and his socialization skill because his life now in rural island.I didn't see any people's character change on island.As on slice of life genre.Handa interaction with each people is different for different people on island.for example : Handa interaction with the annoying kids,middle school girl,people on same age with him,adult person,and even old man and women will different each other and it's very interesting to see.
on our characters here are(i write the characters based the MAL page on this manga) : first ,we have Handa Seishu,the hansome and jenius calligrapher with bad manner before he went to island.Then Kotoishi Naru,the cheerful kid and looks tomboy.Arai Tamako is mangaka that loved BL story(hide it from everyone).Kubota Hina is kid who very easily to cry ,Miwa Yamamura is Tamako friend at middle high school who is very good on sport,Kudo Hiroshi that always do anything vaguely. and Handa Emi,Handa's mother.You will discover other characters if you read more this manga(8/10)[8,1]

for enjoyement, i don't want to say anything.I Enjoy Barakamon and always buy the latest vol if it released at my country.(8/10)/[8]

And my overall is same with enjoyement (8/10)[8].It's recommended to read it on you free time.

*Thank's to read

Barakamon was a manga that was recommended when I was looking for stuff similar to Yotsuba&, and is likely the manga I've most enjoyed reading so far. It follows the MC who is working towards becoming a calligrapher, following in the footsteps of his famous father. After a failed show, Handa Seishu moves to a remote island to attempt to seclude himself in his studies. There, Handa begins to open up to the community around him, and his experiences bleed into his work, bringing more life and flavor to his work as a calligrapher.

The easiest manga for me to recommend to anyone. Story and cast ... are both fantastic, it does a great job of staying funny while instilling the lessons it wants to teach both the characters and the readers, and has a lovely light-hearted tone throughout the entire manga.

I decided to read this manga because I read the manga Yotsuba. I wanted to find manga similar to that manga since I started to like reading slice-of-life manga. It's similar to it but it's pretty different. The main character goes into a town and is a painter who has people come over and do things together. There's a girl who comes over to see how he's doing and other characters like 2 girls that go to see how he is. There are side chapters that are short side stories that show the characters doing different things. There is an anime that I haven't watched ... but I will watch it someday when I have the time. There was one character that I thought was a girl but was a boy because the body figure of that person looked pretty famine-like. The guy looks like a tomgirl to me from his looks. The story is pretty short and you could finish reading it in a week If you are dedicated to reading the manga for the next few days. When I was reading the manga, it took me under 2 months to read it because I was busy with other things. I read 6 chapters or more at a time when I did a certain thing for my game to read a few chapters and then do the same thing. Pretty great manga 8 out of 10.