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
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Jun 12, 2022
Aku no Hana
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I have to put this out of my mind right now or else I probably won't be able to handle my emotions. Just a short write-up. Not meant as a be-all, end-all about this manga. Might even exaggerate at places.
It's my favorite manga of all time, hell, probably my favorite *story* of all time. An intense, tumultuous, and bittersweet tale about the loss of innocence, the ever-lasting search for kinship and the eternal problem of understanding each other's intentions. It features a cast that starts off as cartoonish sketches of tropes that gradually gets fleshed out more and more, almost at the same pace as ... |
