Plot/Story
Sho leaves school and go home in its usual, depressive mood. Arriving home, she falls under the criticism of his mother Miyuki and sister Yu. Unable to endure it, she rushes away from home and falls into the park opposite her housing. There she meets Chiharu - a girl blind from five years old, but still distinguished bright light and bright colors. Chiharu is recognized by Sho that she does not want to stay a lonely blind girl, for it cannot even go to the supermarket - so it is annoyingly and familiarly declares her that Sho was just the random person in whom she was ready to fall in love with the first meeting. Sho is experiencing distrust and even shocked by this meeting, it covers a strong shiver and unclear feelings at the first meeting with white, like a ghost, a girl. But curiosity encourages Sho again and again walking with Chiharu, first at meetings in the same park, and then on their first big date, with a walk around the city. The conversation started between them turns into something similar to a session at the psychotherapist: Sho opens with his blind stranger, putting her unsatisfactory state of his unsatisfactory state. Chiharu carefully listens to sho, and as a result, the girl gets closer to even more. But Sho still remains very closed and a few, and it is terribly annoying a chatty and friendly Chiharu. She begins to invent 1001 ways to talk sho, but it does not want to talk at all. However, Chiharu really want to raise the voice of sho in his memory, so at some point she just takes her hand. But at some point, Chiharu, under the new year, brings SHO treats and announces her that she is forced to leave her city, along with her mother. Sho, not in shock, not in fright, trying to keep it, but immediately let go. However, Chiharu asks Sho to use her, as a reason to live - even when she is bad. And in order to stay to live, SHO once was able to meet with Chiharu again. All that happened causes a coup in the consciousness of Sho, she starts spiritual rebirth. In addition, the Sister Yu, who came home, sister Yu once again criticizes her for passivity and insensitiousness. Thusstantly survived the night before the last meeting with Chiharu, Sho, experiencing terrible discomfort, comes to a meeting with Chiharu in the dawn hour. Having received her portable radio from her as a gift, Sho still can not understand the meaning of Chiharu actions. But at some point Chiharu becomes very serious, requires SHO to change his life after it and declares that it wishes to die if he ever sees it. Sho is amazed, and, having accepted her souvenir for memory from Chiharu, immediately departs with him for a walk, the delight of the eyes look. At some point, he was near the fence from the chain grid, behind which, at the railway stop, she suddenly saw ... Chiharu and her mother! In a sudden impulse of the soul, she grabbed the grid and shouted her name. Chiharu turned around, but, being blind, most likely, did not see it - however, it seemed to see her after she saw her. Extra-chapter is dedicated to self-digging sister SHO, YU.
Characters
Sho katsuragi (or catsurags)
Long-haired brunette-drank. She lives in the Japanese province, floats within and completely asocial. Her life is not interesting and boring, every day of life lasts for a very long time. And in the winter it becomes even more hard from his own loneliness. She prefers loneliness, but most likely, even does not like to be alone, but has some mental problems that encourage her to always keep everyone around. She does not react to the proposals of his classmates together to have fun. She almost does not communicate at all with his relatives - a caring mother Miyuki and an annoying sister Yu, who reproaches it in closets and impolite to them. From one of the views of their home, she silently feels wrong. Her life is not interesting and boring, and she herself, without having an attractive appearance and being a girl with a male face, is not popular with peers. She herself is not able to flirt with anyone. It is only waiting when it rotates and ends. He lives in an area with low-rise buildings, and school chose specially away from home, getting to her by train.
Chiharu.
Short-haired blonde, with rather attractive appearance. Blind from five years old, but can distinguish bright colors. Dressed as a beggar Russian emigrant in France or England, who escaped the times of the Soviet Union from Russia, but can dress up and as hippie: jeans, sneakers, shirt, jacket. Despite his terrible disease, she rejoices life, cheering in spirit, having fun and can even joke and play. Lives and studying in another city, but to the city where Sho lives, only occasionally comes. Extravert: very friendly and adores communication and joint pastime. He loves delicious food, sweets and listen to music on the radio - as well as play with their friends and buddies. Pretty intrusive and annoying, can touch another person for a face or even for the chest (it's not clear, deliberately or by chance). Very romantic confused, in love and trusting. Proposed to the exquisite trolling, maybe a pixel even the man whom she loved. Despite her 17 years, she is strikingly wise and a sensible woman.
Drawing Style
Background graphics quality:
Background, light, effects are performed at a level slightly above average. Only the fence at the station is drawn so realistic that they are simply affected by the scrupulusity of the mangaka and his assistants. The remaining architectural and interior objects, on the contrary, are made in the form of an outline. A lot of some "eight-bit" dirt here and there, lines on the contours of objects or uneven or not connected on the corners. The houses resemble either white rectangles on the Black Sky (and, each window for some reason different shapes and size). The texture of the wood is some kind of interruption, and not solid. The grass, trees and foliage are too contour, and the fill on them applied carelessly and goes beyond the external borders of the lines. Round objects are reminded by the form of an egg. Yoshida Chiyu well manage all sorts of repeated surfaces, for example, floor tiles, but in the longitudinal floorboards, it already saves ink.
Character graphics quality:
Almost all the characters are some terrible, ugly and even crazy people. No, well, honest word: why even Chiharu is so ugly, although it dresses it cute, and she has a pleasant hairstyle ... What prevented Yoshida Chiyu to do at least Chiharu's genius of pure beauty (as the Russian poet Pushkin wrote)? Yeah, the characters in this manga were not saved not weakly, almost at all, except ... Yu, the youngest sister sho. Yu, this Miloid Divin Japanese, this tall daughter of the Japanese people, with the hairstyle of red-haired (it seems to me), with a young and noble leaning (even in the profile it is beautiful, and her smile ... ah!), Which herself calls herself "sort of like , cool girl, "in my opinion, the real star of this manga. She has the most real beauty of the lake or river nymph (although, of course, the nymphs according to legend are drunk). If "Oscar" would give "Oscar" for characters in the manga, then Yu would have rakeed a few figurines as the "Actress of the Third ... or the Fourth ... Plan". She attracts me as a man, most of all other characters in this sad story. Unfortunately, she was issued here the role of embittered, grumpy bitch, but, nevertheless, the type is very pleasant. Yoshida Chiyu, I demand the continuation of the banquet (the phrase from the Soviet film "Ivan Vasilyevich is changing profession&quot😉! Masting anything and with Yu too, please-please-please! I look forward to this beautiful female body of your new works, heh.
Enjoyment
Another manga, performed in the spirit of European "author's cinema". Many every disturbing shortness, strange humor, terrible picture and all the other kinoman sorrows, who is fond of Art House. This literary and graphic work does not give much pleasure, and rather, wears teaching, and not entertaining destination. Itifies the human depression of such a mental force from this manga, and the erotica and romance in it are so few, which is simply not clear: what Russian translators attracted it ... Love for Russian literature, which almost all does not erect and which teaches 1001 ways to commit suicide (And which I hate for raising the nation of the lues from my people)? Or a desire to give the opportunity to Russian Otaku to learn that, in fact, not the whole manga, what with big breasts in a swimsuit, on a sunny beach? Whatever it was, this manga just struck me ... with his strong sentimentality ... his deep depressiveness ... and the story, not that love, not the friendship of two, deeply unfortunate, suffering students, one of which is closed in himself and finds it difficult to enter into contact, And the other is almost completely blind and moves through the native city only by memory. Obviously, Yoshida Chiyu has influenced such Western and Eastern writers as O'Henry, Stefan Cweig, Bunin, Turgenev - separate plot lines from literary works of these writers are clearly visible to me in this literary and graphic work from the Japanese manufacturer. This manga is asked by philosophical questions of such a depth that smacks of religion, even here and there is no religion, heh. For example: Can it be a healthy body, but a dull spirit and dark soul girl with a cheerful girl, fun - but almost completely blind? And this manga responds: yes, maybe, but not without harsh tricks. Can the cheerfulness are transferred to the air-tactful way? And this manga responds: Yes, maybe even through a deaf defense. This manga almost will not give you any carnal, that is, hedonistic pleasures. But it is the pleasures of spiritual, that is, the mental it will give you in excess. For ... In the ugly and sloping graph of this manga, such deep urges for humanity are hidden, which, after reading it, you can change and become ... the best parody of yourself. And, I repeat, without any religious moralism. This is not an entertaining fiction, it is a tragic story of a blind girl who, understanding, what a heavy life is waiting for it (even in such a high-tech and liberal country, as modern Japan, you understand?), I decided to find a person, for whose hand, leading it in white Ways of life in the Dark Forest of the disease, she wished to walk the rest of his life. And she ... It is not even important that she was running around to the girl who herself the Black Forest itself in his despondency - just ... She no longer had the hope that she could live her life alone.
Overall
Manga leaves the feeling of sadness and sadness, but it is bright sadness and light sadness. One of the tasks of any visual art is consolation, and this manga consists of all. She seems to be hinting: yes, your life is boring, yes, your days are empty, yes, your soul (as the Russian rock band "Voskresenie&quot😉 died and dark, but ... sooner or later in your life, reminiscent of the dark forest, should A white spot appears, similar to the path ... The way capable of bringing you out of darkness to the light, from boredom to joy, from the void in an abundance, and your soul will be filled with cheerfulness and bright rays of the sun. Although, of course, there is the truth of art - but there is also a truth of life in which people who broke up with politicians, angry with the clergy and intimidated news, are silent each other, avoid each other, or on the contrary: attack each other at personal and public meetings, words and ... cruel hands. So, of course, the practice of drawing a manga about the burnt love between the girl-introvert and the blind girl into our century the next strengthening of religious obscurantism, political repression and personal fierce of many of us may seem like something like a "voice of blatant in the desert." But, rather, I reread this manga several times instead of listening to another news release, no matter how honest and truthful. For I'm tired of news dramas. I need a good news. And this manga ... can give it to me.