Subarashii Sekai
What a Wonderful World!
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Subarashii Sekai

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: WaWW
Japanese: 素晴らしい世界
English: What a Wonderful World!
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 19
Status: Finished
Published: Jan 19, 2002 to Mar 19, 2004
Genres: Drama Drama, Slice of Life Slice of Life
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Sunday Gene-X
Authors: Asano, Inio (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.591 (scored by 1210212,102 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #23492
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Popularity: #559
Members: 33,233
Favorites: 415
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Chapters: /19

Synopsis

Twenty-three-year-old Yuriko Togawa dropped out of college six months ago. In the past, her classmates envisioned her as a reliable and independent person even though she saw herself as the opposite. Yuriko wants someone to provide for her needs, not the other way around. Thus, when she meets her former colleague Horita Tomotsugu, she hopes that romance will spark between them.

Horita had a great ambition of debuting his band together with Yuriko. However, as time progressed, he slowly succumbed to reality and became an office worker instead. Encountering Yuriko reminds him of what was once his dream, and he aspires to reignite it with her. Despite the two having different motives, Yuriko decides to lend him a helping hand after going through a myriad of events.

Yuriko and Horita's story is just one of the compelling narratives in Subarashii Sekai. Entwined with their tale are several other short stories, each depicting the arduous, painful, and realistic hardships of mundane life.

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Background

Subarashii Sekai was published in English as What a Wonderful World! by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint on October 20, 2009. It has also been published in Chinese by Taiwan Tohan; in French by Kana; in German by Egmont Manga & Anime and Tokyopop Germany; in Portuguese by JBC; and in Spanish by Norma Editorial.

Characters

Bear Bandit
Supporting
Shop Attendant
Supporting
Togawa, Yuriko
Supporting
Takachi
Supporting
Kato, Tae
Supporting

Reviews

Mar 1, 2024
La siguiente reseña está en Español e Inglés (traducida con el apoyo de DeepL)
La versión leída es la traducción al español por Robelais

Español

Es una antología de historias, cada capítulo tiene un protagonista en una situación específica, uno que otro aparecerá en otra historia como personaje secundario. Si bien cada situación es única, el carácter del compendio se puede generalizar, son las vivencias cotidianas de personas cualquiera, con cada quién enfrentando a su manera las circunstancias tan comunes que le suceden.

Sea una relación de pareja, familiar o amistad, el inevitable proceso de crecimiento o la convivencia en tu ambiente; ninguno de los protagonistas está en un ...
Oct 18, 2015
"I look up into the clear blue morning sky. It makes my eyes hurt. And suddenly, I feel something nostalgic underfoot. It's the dawn of a new day, and the first thing I do is step in some shit."

Asano Inio's serial debut Subarashii Sekai is an interesting anthology of loosely linked short stories about people caught between prolonged adolescence and adulthood, trying to resist the pressures of a fast-paced society as they stand in the midst of their failing aspirations and relationships.

Protagonists include a college dropout, a bullying victim, and other characters that many readers will be able to relate to on some level. At ...
Nov 25, 2024
What a Wonderful World – Spoiler Free – Not Recommended

TLDR
Overall: 4/10

Disclaimer: due to the nature of this work – a collection of short stories –, my normal parameters of Story, Art, Characters and Enjoyment with a weighted average won’t be applied. Instead, a global overview will be offered.

This world that we live in is gentle yet sad, fun yet sorrowful, strong yet ephemeral…
-What a Wonderful World

What a Wonderful World is probably one of Asano’s worst works, as he again attempts to use short stories to tell multiple independent stories. What a Wonderful World suffers precisely from the same illness as Before Dawn and the End ...

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