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第16回文化庁メディア芸術祭マンガ部門新人賞受賞作!!六十年前に絶やしたはずの祭儀の復活により朝日は、おぼすな様という土着神の妻となった。りんごの市場価格の暴落により、“一挙更新”を迫られる村で陸郎から村の言い伝えを聞き出した雪之丞は朝日を連れて東京に戻る決断をするが……!?愛する妻を守るため、夫は神と闘う！
176 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2013
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February 26, 2025
ESPECTACULAR. MARAVILLOSO. DOLOROSO.
January 15, 2023
What's a god good for, anyway? Be it a god that gives or a god that takes away... I don't need either.
The plot thickens in Volume 2 as more of the lore behind Obosuna and the brides are revealed.
In a desperate move to avoid Asahi's fate of being spirited away, Yukinojo returns to his family's temple in Tokyo to delay the inevitable. For a while, it works — Asahi's hair and nails stop growing, she doesn't shrink in stature and Yukinojo is temporarily relieved when it appears the distance has dampened Obosuna's mystical influence on Asahi.
We see a gradual change in the nature of their relationship as they become closer (considering Yukinojo and Asahi were married after being arranged by a matchmaker), but just as I was bracing for the more sweet moments between husband and wife, tragedy struck — Asahi's niece Hana has been spirited away in Asahi's place, and after a tearful call from Hana's mother, Yukinojo and Asahi return to Aomori in a race against time to find the missing child. If Hana isn't found before dawn, she will not be able to return to their home again. As the entire village gets roped in the rescue of Hana, Yukinojo and Asahi gets involved, where Asahi manages to find the missing Hana in a mere matter of minutes partially due to her connection with Obosuna.
Later, the village holds a gathering where it is decided that Asahi is to remain in the village to pay the tithe to Obosuna and Yukinojo was to return to Tokyo, to which the latter vehemently refuses as he doesn't want to give up on Asahi yet. Asahi's family bars him from seeing her but Yukinojo still persists and decides to take residence with Rikuro — one of Asahi's friends and resident of the village. Later he decides to formulate a plan to steal a document detailing the tithe's ritual from the village spokesperson's coffers in hopes to find a loophole. The volume concludes when Yukinojo finds a child-like figure crouched in one of the many orchards he was working on — only to reveal it as Asahi, who has fully regressed to a child-like stature with her long hair and long nails.
At this point of the series I was like, "Yukinojo, let's go and burn the damn tree! I will help!" but I doubt it will help since where I'm from, you see a huge-ass tree with a lot of history, best to leave it alone or else you have to suffer serious consequences. The conflict introduced here was so gripping and knowing more of the Obosuna tithes and brides just gave me grief like, is there no workaround anymore? Kidding aside, this volume was equally gripping and I just want Yukinojo and Asahi to live happily after the relationship development they had.
Looking forward (with dread) in reading the last volume next!
The plot thickens in Volume 2 as more of the lore behind Obosuna and the brides are revealed.
In a desperate move to avoid Asahi's fate of being spirited away, Yukinojo returns to his family's temple in Tokyo to delay the inevitable. For a while, it works — Asahi's hair and nails stop growing, she doesn't shrink in stature and Yukinojo is temporarily relieved when it appears the distance has dampened Obosuna's mystical influence on Asahi.
We see a gradual change in the nature of their relationship as they become closer (considering Yukinojo and Asahi were married after being arranged by a matchmaker), but just as I was bracing for the more sweet moments between husband and wife, tragedy struck — Asahi's niece Hana has been spirited away in Asahi's place, and after a tearful call from Hana's mother, Yukinojo and Asahi return to Aomori in a race against time to find the missing child. If Hana isn't found before dawn, she will not be able to return to their home again. As the entire village gets roped in the rescue of Hana, Yukinojo and Asahi gets involved, where Asahi manages to find the missing Hana in a mere matter of minutes partially due to her connection with Obosuna.
Later, the village holds a gathering where it is decided that Asahi is to remain in the village to pay the tithe to Obosuna and Yukinojo was to return to Tokyo, to which the latter vehemently refuses as he doesn't want to give up on Asahi yet. Asahi's family bars him from seeing her but Yukinojo still persists and decides to take residence with Rikuro — one of Asahi's friends and resident of the village. Later he decides to formulate a plan to steal a document detailing the tithe's ritual from the village spokesperson's coffers in hopes to find a loophole. The volume concludes when Yukinojo finds a child-like figure crouched in one of the many orchards he was working on — only to reveal it as Asahi, who has fully regressed to a child-like stature with her long hair and long nails.
At this point of the series I was like, "Yukinojo, let's go and burn the damn tree! I will help!" but I doubt it will help since where I'm from, you see a huge-ass tree with a lot of history, best to leave it alone or else you have to suffer serious consequences. The conflict introduced here was so gripping and knowing more of the Obosuna tithes and brides just gave me grief like, is there no workaround anymore? Kidding aside, this volume was equally gripping and I just want Yukinojo and Asahi to live happily after the relationship development they had.
Looking forward (with dread) in reading the last volume next!
September 6, 2023
*4.5
Stunning cover! Also loving the development in the relationship between the two main characters.
Stunning cover! Also loving the development in the relationship between the two main characters.
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