Although it's a short manga,but after I read it, I know why it get some high attention.
The manga contains humors,pain,happiness ,struggles just like our real life.Some time good,some time bad.The manga remind us about the good old days while we were teen and young who always wonder about the future.Am I doing the right choice?What if I fail?And the most obviously question,should I follow my dreams or just play safe.We so scared is we choose the wrong decision and screwed up,but guess what, there are not any right or wrong decision, it is just up to you which you wanna choose.
The manga is
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: ソラニン More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 28
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 30, 2005 to Apr 6, 2006
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Seinen
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Asano, Inio (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #4492 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #105
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Mar 25, 2023
"Solanin" is my third contact with the works of Inio Asano, and it still manages to be a manga that exudes novelty and expresses an authorial style that has matured over the years: by proposing to the reader the presentation of events, ideas, and themes that are related to processes and psychosocial phenomena mostly common to Japanese young adults (such as conformism; entering the executive workplace; the prospects for personal growth in an economy that has been stagnant for 30 years, with sturdy deflation, and an aging society; the transition to adulthood in oppressive, hyperdynamic urban environments), Asano realizes a brutal realism in both aesthetics
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Oct 26, 2015
This is the story of Taneda and Meiko, two young guys who have a relationship. They have to confront with the life, and they search to understand what they want from this. But it isn't so simple...
Meiko hasn't talents or passions, and as many people, she hates own mediocre job, but she also haven't project for the future. Taneda instead has a great passion for the music, and he is a dreamer, but he hasn't the maturity to realize own dreams so also him do a job which isn't in line with own desires. Also the friends of the two lovers have similar problems, they have ... 
Nov 4, 2015
This manga is a slice of life masterpiece. Touching people in the heart, and how could it not? The story is very realistic and there are a lot of things that can be learned from the story. After reading it twice, I have been able to engage the story in a more meaningful manner. It was very very touching in my own eyes and it made me appreciate the life I live today.
My suggestion would be to do the same: take time in reading and appreciate this beautiful work, and reread it if you must. Stories like these aren't as known and appreciated, so I ... 
Feb 19, 2016
+This is a spoiler-free review+
Solanin is a manga by Inio Asano, who is widely known for his work in Oyasumi Punpun, so if you have already read that one you can have an idea of what to expect. Solanin is not a happy story, yet is not entirely depressing. I cried, yes, but I laughed as well. Just as life. On its basis, it tells a story about a young couple. They love each other, yet they feel heavily the pressure of what they are going to do with their lives. The manga revolves around them, their dramas, their friends and their families. The story is ... 
Jun 26, 2022
Just some personal thoughts, don't think too much about it
Great stories don't have to take much space. Solanin is an example of that. This is a vignette of what life may be like in your 20s, aimless and unsatisfied. Primarily the plot revolves around our characters move through those types of feelings, and move forward with their lives. For our main character in particular, it's a journey of growing up and embracing... adulting. The "adult" part of life we all find kind of unappealing: the monotony of work, the looming shadow of eternal mediocrity/anonymity, all that kinda stuff. I think the story's mainly about how ... 
Aug 19, 2021
Solanin follows the story of a couple in their early twenties figuring out how to exist in society while enjoying themselves. A quote that stuck with me is, within the first quarter of the manga, Meiko quits her job but soon discovers that "freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom." She doesn't want to force herself to work, so her boyfriend is forced to fund their living alone. Her decision sets off a chain of events that lead to them both questioning what they are doing and why.
Story: 9/10 The story was great. Perhaps since I'm in my early twenties, it felt very ... 
Feb 25, 2024
This manga centers around people in their 20s who try to find their way. Main character Inoue is an office lady living with her boyfriend Taneda, who works in a part-time job so he doesn’t earn much. She is not happy with her life but she doesn’t have the courage to change, until one day she does. "Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom" is the way she describes her life a week after her resignation. It's quite similar to quarantine since it's only good for people who have things to do. She says that she'll shop, get driver's license, go overseas
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Aug 18, 2023
Solanin is a short but sweet manga about some of the challenges in young adult life. I saw a meme online recently with a comment that said "nobody warns you about the post college depression," and this is basically Solanin. If you are in your early 20's you will probably find this manga very relatable, it was for me, I see a lot of myself in Meiko and Taneda, like in moments where they face the fact that boring jobs may just be a part of life; or realizing how quickly they've aged into the people they thought were old in college. This book kinda
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Jul 20, 2023
tl;dr: A very normal but very well written story about the final phase of transitioning from childhood to adulthood, though the epilogue is absolutely awful.
“solanin” is centered around the fuzzy period of life transitioning from being a college student to a working adult. When one is going through school it always feels like progress is being made even if it’s unclear what the progress is being made towards. However, after that one needs to choose what it is that one actually want to do in life, and being unsure can result in feeling like life is meaningless. At this point some are able to live ... 
May 23, 2023
I think the strongest point of solanin was its relatability. It’s a story of people in their early 20s trying to find their way through life, revolving around the classic debate of the hard, uncertain or easy, stable path, whether it's in their career or romance. In other words, the fear of following your passion. To me, the story is nothing special, but that’s the whole point, the characters, plot, world is nothing unique, and Asano wanted it that way. I think he wanted to make a manga people could fully relate to, even at the deficit of entertainment, to impact them in a way
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Jan 25, 2018
As with the only one other Asano work I've read thus far ("A Girl by the Sea"), I'm left with one prevailing word amongst all others in this effort to say what I feel: "damn." Not "damn," as in a disappointed exclamation. Just an expression of my dumbfoundedness by breaking the dumbness.
Asano's "Solanin" leaves me with a bittersweet, yet bright look towards the future. I'm not a college-graduated 20-something, but I am a 19-year-old a year out of high school and struggling to find a way to move forward without sacrificing all of my happiness and emotional stability. Along with sharing this sentiment with ... 
May 24, 2021
Running in place can often yield disastrous results, and these characters progressively become no strangers at all to the ennui that ensues, what with Meiko's resignation from her job serving as the catalyst for a collective journey of arduous self-discovery that you either can or can't relate to. It's fair to say we've all "been there" in some form or fashion and Asano addresses this on a personal level with a riff on the old adage "it's okay to not be okay," only instead of something wholly hinging upon depression/mental illness, the existentialist desire to know what you want out of life and that of
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Mar 18, 2021
"Zero and zero got together and made infinity."
That quote in this manga was the perfect quote to represent these characters. It is not a story about any special or extra ordinary people, it's not one about rags to riches or people who started from the bottom and ended up at the top. It is just a simple down to earth story about a group of friends who just getting through life. It is a real feel to it that you can almost like I can relate to these characters. As for the setting is pretty simple and the overall plot is very simple. As ... 
Feb 20, 2021
I decided to read on behalf of Oyasumi Punpun, like most of people; I expected something and got what I wanted, maybe even a little more.
Solanin portrays a simple everyday life, the life of a girl who has finished her studies and is in her life now, a complicated time, full of uncertainty and wow, I'm going through it too! It is simple, but it shows this simplicity in a pleasant and melancholy way at the same time, just like Punpun; where you have the admiration of what you have, of life, of an afternoon, of music, of heaven and of company; but it also ... 
Sep 17, 2020
Honestly man, the Meiko character relates to any of us when we graduate from college directly going into the big bad world. We always tend to ask ourselves a series of questions such as "what company will accept me? if I put myself out there?", "where do I see myself in 5 years time?", or "Do I see myself being in a similar career position to what I studied in college/university? ". I felt Asano did a pretty good job at seeing what goes through young people's minds when it comes to knowing how to look after themselves in later life. It's
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Oct 21, 2017
The couple are both avoidant, and they have great needs for meaning, assertiveness and efficiency in their life. It's frustrating and sad for me that they have no outside help, nobody that can can provide any significant guidance.
Taneda is trying to take a lot of the responsibility for providing meaning but doesn't have high enough empathy or insight which ends up enabling Meiko's lack of accountability. It's hard for any of the characters to be vulnerable with each other but they do take steps towards growth. I was touched by several of the main characters' outbursts and moments of assertiveness (most relevant scene for me ... 
Dec 19, 2017
I'm writing this from the perspective of a high schooler, and one who entered 9th grade this year. I bought this manga after hearing about it on this very site. Inio Asano is a highly acclaimed author, and it is extremely easy to see why.
First off, this manga is super easy to recommend to general comic book fan. The plot is down to earth, relatable, and most of all, engaging. Considering that this story came from Asano's mind during a period when he himself was in this very age bracket, just starting as a mangaka and making his mark in the underground market, this ... 
Sep 15, 2015
"I realized it one day. The lyrics I struggled to create are only made up so I would have something to sing. Nothing genuine can come out of these flat and boring and ambiguous lives we're living, out of faking your worries for the sake of it".
The works of Asano Inio are very often different on the uptake of life and society and this was no exception.On the surface, this is a story about a couple in their twenties who are in the midst of self exploration.Some things happen and then the story takes a slightly different route.It is a relatively short manga with only ... 
May 2, 2023
Solanin's a seinen coming of age story centered around a couple of now graduated band-mates that aimlessly wander their post-graduation phase in life. To some, this period of time may be difficult to adjust to. The leisurely life you had in college now compels you to work 9 to 5 in a job you don't care about at all, with a degree you just randomly chose after drifting along the first few years of college.
Solanin...captures this to an extent. While I empathize with Meiko and Taneda a little bit, to me, the story wasn't particularly engaging or compelling. The manga is largely slice of ... |
