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Island
by Komi Naoshi
[SPOILERS ALERT!]
Island is definitely one of my favourite mangas of all time, also my favourite one shot. Well, it's tied with Hotel in the one shot category, but it's still really good.
It's innocent, surprising, sad, and then happy. I also love the art in this manga. It's simply incredible how well put together this one shot is. It's a must read.
Have you ever felt like you were like a frog stuck in a well? Felt like no matter how much you climbed or tried to get out, you couldn't? If so, you can't afford to not read this.
An entire village is surrounded by a wall. A very tall wall. As children, you attempt to get out of the wall. When you're an adult, however, you have already given up with the notion. Why? Well, when you turn 14, you are shown to the top of the wall. You discover than outside of the wall, is only water. Water everywhere you look. You feel hopeless now. Your hopes of escaping the walls are shattered. Why escape when all there is out there is the ocean?
Marue is an intelligent little girl with hopes of leaving the walls. Beside her is her best friend, Aira, a young boy who supports Marue. Together they try to build things so that they can leave the walls of the town. Aira turns 14 first and learns the devastating truth. After that, he stops participating in Marue's ideas of leaving the wall. Marue, still fresh on her ideas, continues to try to get out of the wall.
When she turns 14, her hopes don't die. Instead, she uses her intelligence to theorize something else...
It's a briliant story, one that will always give me food for thought. It's also one of the only mangas that I've ever reread. Since it's so short, it's not hard to reread...but I don't reread most of my one shots. This is one of the exceptions (the other is Hotel). Why? Because the plot is so realistic and at the same time...so brilliant. There's no other word beside 'brilliant' that I can use to describe it.
LINK OUT:
MAL - http://myanimelist.net/manga/6869/Island
MangaFox - http://www.mangafox.com/manga/island_komi_naoshi/
by Komi Naoshi
[SPOILERS ALERT!]
Island is definitely one of my favourite mangas of all time, also my favourite one shot. Well, it's tied with Hotel in the one shot category, but it's still really good.
It's innocent, surprising, sad, and then happy. I also love the art in this manga. It's simply incredible how well put together this one shot is. It's a must read.
Have you ever felt like you were like a frog stuck in a well? Felt like no matter how much you climbed or tried to get out, you couldn't? If so, you can't afford to not read this.
An entire village is surrounded by a wall. A very tall wall. As children, you attempt to get out of the wall. When you're an adult, however, you have already given up with the notion. Why? Well, when you turn 14, you are shown to the top of the wall. You discover than outside of the wall, is only water. Water everywhere you look. You feel hopeless now. Your hopes of escaping the walls are shattered. Why escape when all there is out there is the ocean?
Marue is an intelligent little girl with hopes of leaving the walls. Beside her is her best friend, Aira, a young boy who supports Marue. Together they try to build things so that they can leave the walls of the town. Aira turns 14 first and learns the devastating truth. After that, he stops participating in Marue's ideas of leaving the wall. Marue, still fresh on her ideas, continues to try to get out of the wall.
When she turns 14, her hopes don't die. Instead, she uses her intelligence to theorize something else...
It's a briliant story, one that will always give me food for thought. It's also one of the only mangas that I've ever reread. Since it's so short, it's not hard to reread...but I don't reread most of my one shots. This is one of the exceptions (the other is Hotel). Why? Because the plot is so realistic and at the same time...so brilliant. There's no other word beside 'brilliant' that I can use to describe it.
LINK OUT:
MAL - http://myanimelist.net/manga/6869/Island
MangaFox - http://www.mangafox.com/manga/island_komi_naoshi/
1 comment:
O_O never read it. is it as good as u say?
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