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- ©2013 Kadzuya Konomoto(Akita Publishing Co.,Ltd.)
- Manga Score: 7.75
- Author: Kadzuya Konomoto
- Publisher: Akita Publishing Co.,Ltd.
- Volumes: 8
- DB title: Setoutsumi
- Rating: 10 and up
- Genres: ComedySlice of LifeShounen
SETO UTSUMI
Synopsis
This manga has been made into a movie and a TV drama in japan."I wish we could just spend all our high school days sittin' and chattin' by this river." This seven chapter volume is a collection of the funky, off-the-wall, and sometimes cynical after-school conversations between Seto and Utsumi, two high-schoolers from the Kansai region of Japan.
This series has been published in Japan since 2012 which Japanese title name is "Setoutsumi"
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Review
Zrisha
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Story: 10/10
It is a slice of life manga at its core, and the story is almost non-existent. Each chapter basically follows the same template - two high-school boys hanging out after school near a river bank and having mundane conversations, sometimes involving supporting characters. Not dissimilar set-ups have read more
Bigaku
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The comedy is unique and well executed. The author utilizes multiperspectivity pretty well considering the genre, and that the setting is, for the most part, the same place by a river.
Think Durarara or Baccano, or the recent Odd Taxi (Which is written by the same author as this manga) but as a slice of life comedy.
Could a situation that gets told twice, or even thrice sometimes, still hold up comically just because it's from the perspective of another character? That's obviously a rhetorical question, because the answer is read more