Inochi

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Japanese: いのち

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 5

Chapters: 20

Status: Finished

Published: 2008 to 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance

Themes: Psychological, School

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Dessert

Authors: Momochi, Reiko (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #4581²

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Popularity: #8505

Members: 2,271

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MangaDessertMomochi, Reiko (Story & Art)

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Chapters: /20

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“I killed my sister. Now I will live as her.”

Mischevious Nobara and good-girl Kotori are identical twin sisters. After their father’s death, they lived with their grandmother and mother, respectively, but one day, while they had switched places, Kotori was murdered! Because she was robbed of her most precious daughter, Nobara’s mother’s hair turned pure white! Nobara, who is tormented with guilt, decides to live as Kotori in order to protect her mother…!?

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Aug 27, 2011

Moon_Light

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Preliminary (4/20 eps)

Mistakes, we all make them. Some are so small that we are taught in school to merely erase and fix, it changing the whole equation and making is solvable, others so significant that reshape our entire life, muddling up our future.

There are only 4 chapters out as of now (meaning when I wrote this review) and honestly the manga has a nice plot and a driven heroine. Though I was confused as to what direction it's going to take now, since so much happened in such a short time I’m still curious to know how she handles her predicament.

Nobara and Kotori are twins. Though their ... exterior is identical, inside they are as different as night and day. Which results in Nobara being the "loose" twin while Kotori is the perfect one. In the first page of the manga we get a glimpse into the childhood that could and maybe did shape the rest of the girls lives.

The wheels get set in motion on a trip. Moments later tragedy strikes and Nobara’s father dies because of an incident no one could have anticipated but could have been prevented. Nobara is blamed by her mother for her fathers death. Deciding not to cause her mom anymore grief, so she goes to live with her grandmother for years to come.
The only interaction she has with her mom are weekly when her twin and her switch places so that she, Nobara, can spend time with her. All it took was one time and while impersonating Nobara , Kotori gets killed. Nobara can’t tell her mom that it was her precious Kotori that was actually killed so she makes up her mind to let Nobara’s name die and stay as Kotori.

Since the beginning you get a feel for the characters: Kotori’s easy going-ness, Nobara’s pain and sad smile. Suffice it to say we don’t get to fully appreciate Kotori’s role since she is killed pretty early on, but you get to sympathize with Nobara who's small mistakes shape her life.
I wasn’t going to mention this because it seems trivial, but the fact that her cat was named “Puta” which pretty much means “female dog” (the curse word) in Spanish is kindda weird and adds a little humor to a sad scene. Well for me anyway, since I can be pretty immature when the mood is just right.
The mother wasn’t one of my favorite characters, it’s no surprise really, I just think that she was mean to her daughter and although to her it might not have seemed like it, in a teenagers eyes, she did favor the oldest daughter more. She forgot that she not only lost a husband but Nobara lost a father. She was the grownup and yet failed at her role (to protect her daughter). I can only imagine her grief must have been horrible after losing her love and that's why I can understand her reason.

The art was very nice. Normal in a way, average but sometimes average is just as beautiful. There was no apparent laziness in the art which means the mangaka enjoyed drawing it and wanted it to show.

It’s very early to tell but Nobara, or should I say, “New Kotori,” faces a few hard decisions ahead of her. She lost her twin sister and her father. Now she’s pretending to be said sister because her mothers health might not take it if she knew her “favorite” daughter is dead.

It’s never easy to bury your sister and bury yourself at the same time. Let's see what awaits.

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Nov 24, 2011

TheBastid

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Unbelievable. All fives across the board. If this was an Amazon review then this manga would be heralded as a must-read classic. But I'm glad that this place isn't as lenient with the scoring system. This is one of those mangas that gets worse and worse, with nonsensical plot twists and situations that fall out of every pore the deeper you get into it. The story right from the start was already walking on a tightrope, and the sudden progressions of the characters and events that follow pushes it into very dangerous territory. The writer pretty much wrote herself into an infinite disastrous loop that ...

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