Nước xuôi biển lớn - Tập 2

水は海に向かって流れる [Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru] #2

by Rettou Tajima, Shena SuShi (Translator)

"Có lẽ người mà chị ấy giận nhất chính là bản thân mình."

10 năm trước, bố của Naotatsu đã có quan hệ ngoài luồng với mẹ của chị Sasaki.

Sau khi biết được sự thật, Naotatsu đã luôn trăn trở liệu bản thân nên làm gì. Trái lại, chị Sasaki không muốn tạo bất kỳ sóng gió dư thừa nào nên muốn cậu vờ như chẳng có chuyện gì xảy ra.

Những người nắm được sự tình còn có Izumiya - cô bạn cùng lớp, giá sư - người sống cùng nhà, tiên sinh Nigemichi và bố của Naotatsu.

Sasaki và Naotatsu đồng thời trải qua cuộc sống sinh hoạt chung trong không khí căng thẳng thầm lặng, vừa từng bước cùng nhau đối diện với sự kiện 10 năm trước cũng như đối mặt với chính bản thân mình.

Genres: Manga

196 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 2019

About the author

Japanese name: 田島列島

Reviews

[Snail · Rating 5 out of 5]

This manga is a great mix of some of the humor from Princess Jellyfish and art a little bit like... Twin Spica? Or perhaps Saturn Apartments is what I’m thinking of. Also indie manga generally.

I’m a sucker for calm slice of life and strange found families living together under one roof, and this series hits all those marks very nicely.

Reading this story gives me another gentle reminder - and to all artists out there - that the stories you have to tell are far more important than your technical artistic “skill.” I wonder if manga differs significantly from novels in that sense... well, in both cases, I think as long as one’s art / words are legible to the reader so that the story or emotions or intent can come through, that’s the essential thing. I think for a lot of creators, whatever your medium, it’s too easy to let others tell you, or to let you convince yourself, that you’re not “good enough.” I can totally imagine someone saying that to the artist of this work, for some of the awkward elements of the art - “the proportions are weird, the heads are too big”, “the art looks clumsy”, whatever... but there are plenty of manga out there with much more technically “skilled” or “impressive“ art that didn’t move me anywhere near as much as this series has, or make me laugh as much - never mind make me look forward to the next volume.

And I think this kind of art has its own value in the world and lends this work its own personality and sentimentalism. I really like it.

I doubt it will ever see an official English release, but I wish it would, be a it would be lovely if more people could enjoy this author’s thought-provoking work.

[Aurelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Water flows to the sea- Naotatsu recently just moved to his uncle's house. And it turns out, the 26 year old lady living alongside him, Chisa bears a complicated relationship with Naotatsu. In the past, Chisa's mother eloped with Naotatsu's father, a double affair.

The art is lovely, it's very nice to look at and the story is heartwarming, I love the references the author put inside the work.

[Oh ya]

就這樣一路順暢地看完兩集，其實內心有一種不安，想說這種因著長輩家人所做下的行為，真的會讓人一蹶不振嗎？我怎麼想都是榊小姐在成長過程中所受到的影響才是最深的，直小弟弟究竟有什麼好痛的？

不過，可能就是自己可能再被保護下成長，卻感受到別人不明說卻真實遭受的傷痛感到無能為力而想要分擔吧？如果說這份在意因此而起如果就這樣談起戀愛，會覺得會更痛苦吧？因為所有感情都交織在一起了。

覺得處理角色的心情很細膩，雖然我也不清楚細膩指的究竟是什麼？我還可以用細膩來形容嗎？好像不行但我就這樣一口氣看完兩集了。作者很明顯沒有想讓直的爸爸和榊的媽媽當大壞蛋，可以感受到這兩個角色還是溫柔的人，很喜歡對這兩個角色的描寫，尤其媽媽特地在離開前告訴女兒不是因為不喜歡她才離開的。

[Eressea · Rating 4 out of 5]

劇情有點像詩歌川百景
人物關係錯綜複雜
但劇情比詩歌川百景溫暖多了
剩一集等東立上電子書

[Bom · Rating 4 out of 5]

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