NON TUTTO È COME SEMBRA. Tsubasa si è ricongiunto al suo fratellone, Sota, che si è costruito una nuova famiglia. Fra il protagonista, Ayano e Kenta non esiste alcun legame di sangue ed è proprio questa la chiave per andare tanto d’accordo. O almeno così pare…
This volume mainly focuses on the brother's attempt at finding a new family that's not related. It's an interesting play on the found family trope, but the ending is so rushed it's comical, and it's hard to see what this has to do with the rest of the plot.
POPKULTUROWY KOCIOŁEK: The fifth volume shifts the genre's focus toward the theme of family by choice and the attempt to escape blood ties. This is interesting, but also perhaps the riskiest part of the entire story. Taizan 5 shifts some of the existing structure aside and focuses more on Sota. On the one hand, I think this idea is a great idea. On the other hand, it's here that the series begins to struggle with certain proportions.
The motif of a family made up of people who are not related to each other perfectly resonates with the previous events. Sota isn't simply trying to find a new place to live. He's building an alternative to his own family. He wants to create a space where everything will function better, more peacefully, and more perfectly. The problem begins when the perfect family begins to crack. Kenta, who is initially part of this seemingly harmonious puzzle, displays behavior that undermines the entire picture. Tsubasa sees this more quickly than Sota. Sota wants to believe in his new reality, while Tsubasa increasingly realizes that no family is free of conflict, selfishness, misunderstandings, or simple human flaws.
The author doesn't pursue a simple story about a bad biological family and a good family by choice. And that's a good thing. If the solution were so obvious, the entire story would lose much of its value. Sota wants to escape her problems, but it quickly becomes clear that changing the people around her doesn't automatically solve the problems inherent in the relationships themselves. This is important because Sins of the Ichinose Family increasingly becomes a story about communication. About what happens when people stop talking to each other, about how easily someone's behavior can be misinterpreted, about how love and frustration can coexist.
Unfortunately, the fifth volume doesn't always manage to translate these good ideas into equally good scenes. The biggest problem is the pacing. Sota's storyline needs time to develop properly. Instead, the author moves rather quickly from building this new family to its disintegration. As a result, some of the emotional weight didn't have time to resonate properly for me. ...
Really frustrating, the end of this volume starts to get it back on track again but the whole volume was wasted with sota and kenta. I thought it would be more dark and interesting instead it keeps skipping between dreams. It was all a dream… and that was all a dream… and that was all a coma… and that was all a dream. Enough is enough for me