Suppli Volume 2

Suppli #2

by Mari Okazaki, おかざき真里

"The skies are always clearer after a storm. After her boyfriend of seven years dumps her, Minami realizes she's shut out everything else in her life. Now, at twenty-seven years old, ambitious Minami throws herself into her advertising job and experiences life--and love--for the first time."--Publisher's website.

Genres: Manga, Josei, Romance, Japan, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Mari Okazaki (Japanese: おかざき真里, Okazaki Mari) is a Japanese manga artist.
Okazaki was born in Nagano in 1967 and grew up in the region of Kansai. She graduated with a major in Design from Tama Art University and worked in advertisement for a number of years.
Okazaki had been publishing illustrations and short comics since high school, although her professional manga career started around 1994. In the early 2000's she left her day job to become a full time cartoonist and illustrator.
Okazaki comics have appeared in josei magazines (marketed to an audience of young adult women) as well as seinen magazines (marketed to an audience of young adult men). Her longest completed manga series to date are the josei Suppli, serialised from 2003 to 2009, and the seinen A-Un, serialised from 2014 to 2021.

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars 🌟

[Aleksandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is manga about an office worker 27 year old Fuji and her dealing with aftermath of a break up and falling for a man who loves another woman.
Despite me also working in the office and being of similar age I couldn’t relate to the story nor the lead and frankly I did not care. I’m sorry but cis heterosexual romances isn’t it, I don’t give a damn.
The one thing I truly liked was art, so I will be more than happy to get Mari Okazaki art prints but reading her manga is too much work. I’m too tired and too gay and too done with it all to care about this story.

[Sucre · Rating 5 out of 5]

the way this manga tackles being a working woman really gets to some part of me. the art is gorgeous as always, with some truly stunning sequences that make this manga stand out from a lot of other romance works. I don't think I could ever pin down why exactly I love this series, except that it gives me a kind of feeling I don't normally get from other reading experiences. I already bought the remaining volumes and look forward to reading them soon.

[Kris Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good volume 2. It ended with a unique twist.

[Jillian -always aspiring- · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s easy for me to say, but Ogiwara is obviously a jerk who does not deserve the time of day from any woman for being so damn wishy-washy.

[Tea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loving everything, but I series that I just can't binge through, after one volume or two I need to take a break.

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

You know, I'm surprised by how much I enjoy this manga. It's about a woman dealing with the issues of being a woman in the workplace in Japan--while trying to figure out how to have her own life as well, how best to succeed at it and how the cultural bias against working women is at work in her own life. I am surprised how much I identify with this character; a manga character! This is something I never thought I'd say.

Beautiful art, as well.

[Miss Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm really enjoying reading about Minami, she's just so earnest about everything. Even the introduction of the sudden evil rival storyline didn't bug me as much as it might have because of the way she thought about how much she'd hoped to approach her as a mentor beforehand. (though uhh note: I still don't like the evil storyline and I fear it looks like it's going into reductive territory I'm not going to enjoy). 3.5 stars

[planetkimi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. I enjoyed the art, but the story just isn't interesting to me. I'm looking for insight or escapism in my fiction, and this provided me with neither. I am a woman who is over 25 and works in an office, and when I'm reading in my spare time, I'd prefer to read about something else. This one was way too vanilla for me.

[Anna]

I wish that I had a mentor such as Hirano-san. For as many moments where I feel frustrated about Fujii's responses to the situation, there are just as many small scenes where she is so adorable and doesn't even know it.

[Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Volume 2 shares the strengths of volume 1, but I wish that the mangaka had not felt the need to use the whole "evil rival" trope with her characterization of Tanaka.

[Lara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everything in Minami's life is getting more and more complicated as she tries to juggle work, friendship and romance. It's kind of painful to watch!

[Mely]

Gorgeous visual language culminating in sex scene -- Minami's daydreams of fish, the sheets of rain, the sheets wracked like waves.

[Elaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Notes on (Translation) Notes: Comedy, Josei Manga, and Genre

[Roglin]

I'm not into this....