ヒナまつり 3

ヒナまつり [Hinamatsuri] #3

by Masao Ohtake, 大武政夫

女の子のすこやかなる成長を願うのが雛祭り。傍若無人なサイキッカー・ヒナ、けなげなホームレス・アンズ、ハイスペックな巻き込まれ中学生・瞳。『ヒナまつり』に登場する３人の女の子たちもすこやかに成長していきます。雛祭りを祝して、描き下ろしのおまけ漫画は２本立て！

Genres: Manga, Comics, Slice Of Life, Seinen, Comedy, Japanese Literature, Humor

199 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 3, 2012

Reviews

[James DeSantis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is so freaking weird.

I kind of love it though?

So this starts off with Hitomi meeting Anzu and learning about collecting cans and living as a homeless person. Weird yet somewhat touching ending. Then we get back to Nitta showing off Hina to his family and...yeah it goes bad. Then we have Hitomi and Hina helping Anzu find cans/tvs and other things to sell to make some money.

It's a weird series man. People talk weird. But holy hell do some of the jokes land, the stories go quick, and the characters are just quirky enough to be interesting. The last story could have been more touching but instead went for a joke that didn't last as good, but the rest of the book was great.

So yeah a solid volume, better than 2, not as good as 1. A 4 out of 5.

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

The slice-of-life gets so deep you might mistake this for a single father with precocious kid sitcom as the author barely remembers to have the kid, Hina, move something around telekinetically every third chapter or so. But it is amusing to watch a middle schooler coolly serve drinks at a bar and yakuza thug Nitta repeatedly fail at being a doting dad.

Storylines: Nitta introduces Hina to his family, a friendship group starts to form among the children, and it's time for parents to visit the classroom.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anzu is so freaking precious oh my god all these kids deserve so much better than what they have- and then there's Hina, sleeping and snacking her way through a comfortable life with Nitta. Sometimes you can forget there are characters with telekinesis and the series is really just a slice of life manga about a yakuza daddy, which is real fun.

[Lindsay · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF. This was getting a bit boring. I couldn't bring myself to finish it.

[Saurabh Modi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an outrageously funny volume. In the previous volume I thought that the mangaka was still figuring out the brand of comedy they wanted to go for but it seems that they have figured that out.

There are several different gags that the author has created with different characters, all of them have with a brand of humor that’s unique to this manga series - a simple way to test this is to attempt to explain it to someone else who isn’t acquainted with this manga. It’s just a hard task since the humor is so context driven here.

The other interesting thing is the quantity of comedic threads that are woven into the storyline is huge. It’s not common to have so many working well. And all of this can backfire as well if the comedic threads don’t mesh well together. In here, the different threads work in a concert - e.g., the thread of Hitomi, Anzu and Hina working together. Each pair in this group has a separate brand of humor that was previously established and then the mangaka brings them all together and the result is complex (but not complicated) comedy that’s just rarely seen. Of course this already has foundation of strong character work.

There’s a minor focus on manga to be heartwarming, but those events are occasional - they still have their impact though. The main focus is comedy here.

Overall, a great manga series.

[Snail · Rating 5 out of 5]

The humor in this series really just hits the right tempo for me! I love how serious and detailed the art is in contrast with the wacky dialogue and situations. I thought the surprisingly serious family-related twists in this volume were well done and actually moved me more than similar themes in other works that are not humor-focused. ("Sweetness and Lightning", for example, comes to mind as a title that's meant to be moving and show relationships growing between characters, but fell flat for me.) I was kind of surprised how little Hina and the other character used their powers... I'm not sure what it says about the general plot that the volume was so enjoyable despite the deviation.

[Carolina Urán · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esta es la reseña para los 10 primeros volumenes.

[haven ⋄ f (hiatus) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is always ridiculous. Weird but somehow interesting almost every time. Everything about this is quirky.

Not sure I’ll continue – what I read was good enough for me.

[Major Flamboyant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quality is just as good as the first two volumes. It's a literary crime that this series does not have more attention.

[Evan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this so much I want to burst into hyperbole. An absolute masterpiece of situational comedy.