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Feb 6, 2018
The art is outstanding.
The whole text below is SPOILER-ish.
I don't like the stuff that didn't happen because the stuff that did did. The point in that for me is that I did grow to care about it. One of the things I was not entirely in sync with was the certain 18+ scene. I love the significance that I had thought it represents though; Him loving her so much that her everything is perfect.
In another life.. I hope I'll get to have someone to have some perfect moments with, such those few for me perfect moments in the story.
I guess the word for this story
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is "realistic".
I was reading it without thinking to myself "Yea, sure.". Isobe's back story and the way he handled his response to the blogger were unquestionably realistic for me.
I would like to see Isobe and Sato see each other once again, by accident, with the whole meeting lasting a moment, making it immediately apparent how even still in that moment of the future they'd jump back in to their old selves and act immaturely without coercing themselves in to doing the "right thing" and prolonging the encounter, their image triggering a relapse of the past for each other.. That's just one way it could happen.. Stories that do this to me, make me think like this, what more can I get, I guess.
Will they ever grow up to look back thinking how what they've had was exotic, perfect, rare, and be put on a smile by the thought, knowing it's already been 10 years since and that the past is dead..
Sato did such a huge thing for Isobe in the end and he'll probably never have gotten to know of it.
During their time, it was just time, as it was coming to an end, the value of it became more palpable by the day.
In the end, you don't know what you have until you've lost it, and with that experience of the past, Sato is at the end seemingly on the beginning of another story. But is it another story, or will it now just be living? That stage of her life was already writen.
Will it bring to saying the words "I love you.", before she actually feels the feeling, will it make everything hard because she'll be awkward with herself not feeling the feelings she thinks that she should feel and if the situation was over would feel? This is getting too subjective of me.
Sato's childhood friend, Kashima.
Perfect implementation.
Exactly as it goes with some "childhood friends", from my experience.
They're not some big existence, they're just people you've known for a long time.
Full on spoiler from now on:
In the end, on the last few pages, you can see how there could've been told a lot more, were Inio to have included how Sato and Kashima had met. That time when Kashima called for Sato to come to him, so his squad of friends could tell him if he's taller than her yet. She unhesitatingly obliged. That surprised me, I literally thought that they were going to bully her. On the last few pages, I was given so much more context. He casually goes about hinting at her that he wants to be with her. And it's not just that, it's that he hinted at her that he STILL wants to be with her. Like with NieR:Automata, it seems to me that a whole segment of plot took place before the narration began. He's obviously been head over heels for her for such a long time, BUT, I think that the unnarrated plot part is that she knows that. He was ever truly only her childhood friend though. The sort you're good with, but the sort that isn't so much an anime childhood friend, but a real life childhood friend.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 24, 2017
I just write reviews to say what I think..
Trying to express my love for a thing that I love.
This story from the start until the end remained the same thing. With that I want to say that it never "tried to do something extra".
That is a compliment.
Perhaps wrongly put though, I just mean that this story is very well designed/thougth out/put together. I never thought "What's this now supposed to be?". Nothing ever felt out of place.
Once I got used to how this story is told, there was no adittional
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getting used to to be done because of how the story is told.
The ending, a very important part of my conclusion above, is surprisingly good..
Now as I'm giving it more thought, I'm thinking how the ending of the story is the beginning of its best part.
I wish this would have a sequel, like for example such as what Tokyo Ghoul:Re is for Tokyo Ghoul..
Reading through this, I was completely connected with the story since its beginning.
How Yamada and Kosuda think and how they generally are is 100% relatable for me. The majority of the thoughts, the mindset and the ways of thinking by them are spot on on how real life was for me when I'd been of their age.
Finishing the story made me sad, and brought tears to my eyes because of how satisfied I was(and sad I am, because my observation of their universe has ended...).
This is one wholesome story for me, and it is so good that I feel as if it's ended at the part from which the story would otherwise reach greater height.
That not being the case is also a major part of my first drawn conclusion, how the story never goes beyond what it defines itself from the start.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 8, 2017
This story is slice of life and seinen/josei, not shonen. It is very far from being shonen. It's silly to have categorised it as such. It's simply erroneously categorised here on MAL in my opinion.
The characters don't do "silly" shonen-ish things, there is nothing heroic, outstanding or whatever of the sort about anything in this story. The story is just a story about a few people whose lives intertwined and how they go on about those daily lives as such.
This was a weird manga. For the stuff that matters to me, and I don't really think there was anything else, it is oh so very
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realistic. Everything was down to earth, without a single thing that shaked the sync at which I was in with the story.
Out of all the characters, Tohno Touko etched herself the most in my mind, but I am happy to feel that by saying that I am doing somewhat of an injustice for Hirose and Kusakabe. Even Kayo, even all the rest. But yea, the two of them were wonderfull in different ways.
I could describe this manga satisfactory enough with a single word: "Gentle".
Everything that went on was.. Just girls, young ones, on the verge of adulthood, living their lives, growing up. I even grew to appreciate the male lead, Tomonaga, and very much so his techer-friend-colleague.
Some characters were somewhat minor in the story, but they had their role, and were not suddenly dead by the time it was over. Those characters too are realistic. Some people in life aren't there all the time, but they are sometimes and they are the people we know and are friends with. That's what I mean. The minor characters are consistently existent, and were not single-use tools. Just like in real life.
Now, as regarding the thing that stuck with me intensively for days back when I had just read this, and that I can get in the mindset of back easily through a song;
Tohno Touko.
There's a music album that I'd been listening to as I was reading the story. It ended up as the music I think Tohno likes. In particular, one song became associated with Tohno in my mind. I fantasize about how she walked outside alone while listening to this song, how she liked to listen to this song as she walked alone outside without a place to go to.
Just wandering alone like a hidden gem that can't shine..
The song (【東方ボーカル】 「モノクロ インザナイト (CYTOKINE remix)」) was beautiful to me and that's why I was actively listening it, but through Tohno's character the beauty of it developed into strong melancholy. Whenever I listen to the song now, images of Tohno wandering the streets, alone and doing her best to stay strong, flow through my mind.
Oh how the song was seemingly happy, before I started hearing the notes of uncertainty and concern, even fear and tears, the interpretation of which was brought to me by Tohno.
Tohno Touko is amazing to me, I love her.
Kusakabe and Hirose are angels are none the less wonderful themself.
I have a special feeling about the both of them. But Tohno's character touched me the most, I feel like I can sympathise with her the most.
This is a 10/10 manga for me. I love it because of how gentle and beautiful the story is, without being unrealastic. Like, such beauty, such gentle beauty (that the whole story is), I can beleive to be real. It's nice to have that feeling. Helps me live by helping me believe I'll perhaps meet such people one day, but yea; It's undoubtedly far too late for me to find such bliss.
Also, I am not stuck on describing the story as gentle because of its title. The story, the feel of it.. It was for me like being in a fluffy blanket during a cold winter. I don't think that I wouldn't have described it the same way had the title been something entirely different, if it did not include the word "gentle". :)
The art is beautiful, the characters are love, the story is realistic, and I was looking forward to reading the story rather instead of feeling burdened with the obligation to read it.
10 all around.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 8, 2017
This manga has had it all for me, up until nearing the end of the story.
It was perfect. I was excited and wanted to know more, wanted there to be more of what I'd grown to thus far like.
It was even good after the "major change" in the story, but that was only for a short while.
In the last few chapters my connection with the story dropped.
I was attached, but then that what I was attached to disappeared.
I just think that this manga, this story has had something perfect up until a point, but then had unsuccesfuly taken a turn, aiming for an effect
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that with me was a failure which almost ruined it all.
For me the effect was negative.
It decided to break its course from the well-established one that I'd grown to love.
It bugs me because I, now that I think of it, feel as if the story that I fell in love never got finished and that I was left with a single option which is to read another story with the same characters and that serves as the continuation to the story that I love(the remainder of the chapters).
I think it could've been done much better, albeit that would probably also mean very differently..
It's not like my displeasure is caused because "omg my favoruite ship didn't set sail", it's that I think that the last arc is poorly done.
I mean, I have enjoyed the story so much until that certain point. Then when the event occured, my connection to the story grew even more, but that only lasted for a short while because I had begun realising that.. How do I say it..
The story simply started kinda heading for another focus, a focus which was not what it had had built up within me up until that point as the focal point of the story.
The following 1 sentence is spoiler-ish:
10/10 untill the "river dip" and shortly thereafter.
6.5/10 from there-on.
The characters are all loveable, and how loveable they all are and what they had is what I grew to love, the story connecting them.
This manga has its thing, but it turned out that I myself have misunderstood the manga and that it is actually something slightly different from what I had grown to see it as before the end-game chapters. :/
Regarding the side-stories, which don't have a dedicated listing on MAL but are accounted for in the listing of the main manga(the ERASED manga has 44 chapter, and it has 49 chapters here on MAL because of the 5 chapters from the side stories volume being accounted for in it) they continue on in the perfection which to me was this manga before the final arc, so the side stories are a 10/10.
EDIT:
I guess I've missed the intended focal point of the story..
"A city where only I am missing".
Still, I think that the ending arc is shabby, so I will bump the overall score from 8 only to a 9.
I stick to what I've said, this manga has something perfect, up 'till the part where it turns out I missed the intended meaning..
Would've been all 10s had it stuck to what I thought it is, or, had the final arc been done somehow "better"..
It's a great story overall, now that I've changed how I view the story, but the end arc is somehow not on par with what everything before it is, for me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Nov 6, 2017
I can't find a single flaw in this story.
But this story did nothing for me.
Only the very last 2 pages of it are something that in my numbness I even still recognise are something that should've shook me up.
Perhaps I've read too much manga and seen too many anime in the last 2 weeks, so that's the reason why I've felt nothing at all during this entire manga.
Um, I'm seeing that people are plenty disastisfied by this manga, I'm writing this to say that I think that this is a great manga. It's short and thus concise.
The only issue I presume that one could have,
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is accepting that a beautiful 22 year old girl would fall in love with a 50 year old depreciated man.
This story did nothing to me and I'm disapointed by its ending.
But the reason that I want to write this is that I want to say that I think it can very much be enjoyed, and that the reason I didn't enjoy it is that I've oversaturated myself with stories in the past 2 weeks.
I don't know, it just bugs me that I didn't find a single flaw in it, nor have I a single time *sigh*-ed caused by something in the manga being stupid to me, and yet I've not connected to the story in the slightest..
I don't want to rate it badly..
I really don't want to because I like how everything has played out, and it makes sense to me how the relationship of the two main characters developed and finalised, except for the very final two pages of the manga. I dislike that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 31, 2017
I don't have much to say.
The art is so good at some points, the situations and all.
Overall it's amazing, full color 'n stuff, but AT SOME POINTS it's so good it actually got me.
Reading this has been a happy experience.
They always smile with each other.
They talk like little girls to each other.
This manga is exclusively a window in to a perfection that two girls have when they are with each other. Thinking of it as anything else makes it fall short in my eyes, but that's fine.
I'm just saying that to hopefully guide someone else's judgement of this work on to the better, if
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it is needed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 31, 2017
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS A VAGUE SPOILER AT THE END
I think it displays a perfect, umm.. Sado-mazo or, I don't really know what kind of a relationship that is exactly, but whatever it is, it's a perfect example of it. What I mean to say with that is that.. When I see this kind of stuff wherever, I could only appreciate it if I were an individual who has grown up and developed with/into such a mindset.
Here in this story, I've for the first time ever(even still somewhat) managed to enjoy the fetishism in it.
The things that would normally be "get this out of my face",
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or even "*blurgh* that is disgusting", were okay to me, and in one(out of only a few instances), THE LATTER was an amazingly beautiful moment.
Perhaps I'll whenever I encounter this stuff wherever from now on always remember this story, and the end of it. I hope that it will be so.
I dislike that the character insight is low, in the sense that there is basically zero of the characters' pasts told about.
It probably makes it very hard to accept this story, to take it with full seriousness/sincerity. A friend for who I'd concluded that this manga would suit their preference, dropped it almost immediately because of exactly this issue. She thought that Madoka is the devil and couldn't take the manga seriously, she wanted to read something realistic and not niche horror stories.
The low rating is here because it's not my perfect cup of tea.
The low rating is also an act of spite for never being revealed more about the characters' pasts.
There are beautiful moments. Those moments take time to witness because to me it was hard to get a firm assesment of the characters(the thing crucial for me in order to love a story), and those moments have for me been based on growing to understand the characters more. Growing to understand how they express themself. With that said, those moments did't start ocurring within me until about early half-way through the story because the understanding had had to have developed first.
The ending vastly rose this story for me.
Up until the ending, I was going to give it a 4/10.
But after the very end, it was kinda perfect.
The way this ended hurt, and I love that.
When a story makes me feel, well.. That's why I'm reading stories to begin with.
The end of this story is amazing and excruciatingly affecting.
It made for the story to be a piece that I've read, and that I'm very glad to have done so.
Oh, now that I think of this particular something, I'm getting goosebumps.
I love the "leaf-jumping".
Those two love and enjoy doing that.
It's so.. Beautiful..
Makes me recall a thing from the movie "American Beauty"(apart from that blonde actress's half-naked beauty), and I've seen the movie more than 10 years ago.
A couple in that movie recorded a plastic bag being swirled around by the wind, and then later watched that recording. It is beautiful to them.
Jumping on fallen autumn leaves.
A thing I don't really understand and I don't think I can understand so I take it for granted and see it for what it's to me presented as, something that is to another beautiful.
With the niche fetishes, perhaps, but when walking through the streets brim with autumn leaves, from now on I'll often recall the two of this story.
Spoiler:
I think that you shouldn't read the following if you plan on experiencing the story, and as genuinely as possible at that.
The two of them never hugged.
That is horrible to me. That is the worst, the saddest part of this story to me.
They never hugged.
I get the feeling of suffocation upon thoroughly remembering that fact.
It is absolutely horrible to me.
Furthermore, seeing how the story ended, the possibility for the two of them to hug each other no longer existing..... Bloody hell.
(Naturally, this is all based singulary on how much of a significant thing a hug is for me. To hug the one you love and adore..)
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jun 25, 2017
I don't want to say much.
I am a stupid 23yo who cannot get his thoughts together, who cannot focus on one thing for more than a few second unless it is of utter interest to him, me.
This story did it, started two days ago due to the premise having had piqued my interest, and here I am at chapter 110, just having had finished watching the first season of the anime after reading through those 110 chapters.
All I want to say is that to me, the manga is superior to the anime.
The anime
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does things differently in a way that does not suit me, seems more typical/trope-ish (which I don't mind).
The manga is better to me for the art, and for the way that it is and the the anime differs in.
I think that these "slight" differences amount to enough for someone who would not be able to enjoy the anime, to presumably be able to enjoy the story in it's manga, source format, uncut and unadapted, unchanged.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 27, 2017
Episode 1: "Ok."
Episode 3: "Interesting."
Episode 5: "Wow."
Episode 7: "Amazing."
Episode 8: "Holy shit."
Episode 9: "I don't know how this could get any better."
Episode 10: "Homura..."
Episode 11: "What is her wish going to be..."
Episode 12: through tearful eyes "Oh my Madoka."
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Meta spoiler in the following line:
Rebellion: "I've been taught one more concept of hell."
Best visuals that I have thus far experienced through an anime.
The OST is simply fantastic, so much effort was put in EVERYTHING regarding this anime.
The characters are.. Perfect. I love all of them.
The "villain" of the series in end didn't leave me with any feeling of spite towards him, he's not even a villain, he's just somewhat of an antagonist.
This show is perfection all around.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jan 27, 2017
Episode 1: "Ok."
Episode 3: "Interesting."
Episode 5: "Wow."
Episode 7: "Amazing."
Episode 8: "Holy shit."
Episode 9: "I don't know how this could get any better."
Episode 10: "Homura..."
Episode 11: "What is her wish going to be..."
Episode 12: through tearful eyes "Oh my God."
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Rebellion: "I've been taught one more concept of hell."
Best visuals I've ever experienced thus far through an anime, just like with the anime series.
The music is the same, just like with the series, but can't say it's the best because I know more anime of which the OST is on this level (none other with visuals such as the ones of this).
Oh yea, the level is called perfect.
Basically, this is perfect to me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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