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ありす、宇宙までも 01
目指せ！日本人初女性宇宙飛行士コマンダー
朝日田ありすは、容姿端麗で人気者。
彼女は幼い頃
両親からバイリンガル教育を受けていたが、
その死によって結果的に
どちらの言語も拙くなり、
日々の授業についていくことができない。
そんな中ありすが出会ったのは、
孤高の天才・犬星くんで…？
「分かったんだ。朝日田のそれ。セミリンガル。」
「おれが君を賢くする。」
両親がいる天国に近づくために、
一人の少女が日本人初の
女性宇宙飛行士船長に
なるまでの物語。
生きづらさを抱える少年少女が
地球の引力圏を抜け出して、
夢を叶えるまで…
その熱き挑戦を、とくとご覧あれ！！
『MAMA』『ルポルタージュ』『インターネット・ラヴ！』の売野機子が描く、最新作！
朝日田ありすは、容姿端麗で人気者。
彼女は幼い頃
両親からバイリンガル教育を受けていたが、
その死によって結果的に
どちらの言語も拙くなり、
日々の授業についていくことができない。
そんな中ありすが出会ったのは、
孤高の天才・犬星くんで…？
「分かったんだ。朝日田のそれ。セミリンガル。」
「おれが君を賢くする。」
両親がいる天国に近づくために、
一人の少女が日本人初の
女性宇宙飛行士船長に
なるまでの物語。
生きづらさを抱える少年少女が
地球の引力圏を抜け出して、
夢を叶えるまで…
その熱き挑戦を、とくとご覧あれ！！
『MAMA』『ルポルタージュ』『インターネット・ラヴ！』の売野機子が描く、最新作！
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208 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 30, 2024
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May 16, 2025
Film critic Roger Ebert said somewhere: "Only lazy critics would use the formula of if you are a fan of X, then you'll like this movie." I guess I'm a lazy critic, so I'm going to say:
- If you are a fan of For All Mankind (Apple TV), you'll definitely love this manga.
- If you are a fan of The Right Stuff, you'll enjoy this work.
- If you enjoyed the recent non-fiction bestseller Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, you will have a good ride.
- If you are a fan of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and their (eminently phallic) space ambitions, you...probably find this okay?
I have read up to the third volume so far in Japan. As a former language teacher, I was intrigued by the use of "semi-lingual" in the story. The protagonist is a young girl (of course) Alice, who dreams of going to space. Because she grew up across the globe, she doesn't have a language which can verbally anchor her experiences. A smart but socially awkward boy, her classmate/best friend, finds out her semi-lingual issues, and helps her overcome them.
I was in a similar position once. I tutored a high-school girl who grew up in different countries, hence her Japanese skills were lacking. The problem was, her elite father thought she was intellectually lacking. He hired me because he was worried about his daughter and her language skills, even though she was a pretty good English speaker.
This embodies an underlying cultural lens though which Japanese people see and judge themselves. Being a proper Japanese person is not only about nationality, but also ethnicity, education, as well as speaking and writing the language. We spend grueling 9 years just to memorize the endless lists of kanji, how they should be written (correct stroke orders) and read: one kanji can have two, three, even four different ways of being read.
The story of this manga (a girl wants to become an astronaut, and a boy who helps her) might not amount to much if it didn't have this incisive critique of the Japanese societal norms. Reading this reminded me a lot about the difficulties I faced as a language teacher. Being a language teacher here means to go against the grains of the society...sometimes, like the young couple in this manga does.
Fundamentally, this is a story about fighting social expectations which could be suffocating, especially so if you are an outsider. With that regard, it is a successful story. In addition, it is a tale of young kids who want to go to space with their earnest innocence. Even if you don't approve of the Musk/Bezos-style hyper-capitalist space exploration, you surely can admire those aspiring kids. Because we all should.
- If you are a fan of For All Mankind (Apple TV), you'll definitely love this manga.
- If you are a fan of The Right Stuff, you'll enjoy this work.
- If you enjoyed the recent non-fiction bestseller Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, you will have a good ride.
- If you are a fan of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and their (eminently phallic) space ambitions, you...probably find this okay?
I have read up to the third volume so far in Japan. As a former language teacher, I was intrigued by the use of "semi-lingual" in the story. The protagonist is a young girl (of course) Alice, who dreams of going to space. Because she grew up across the globe, she doesn't have a language which can verbally anchor her experiences. A smart but socially awkward boy, her classmate/best friend, finds out her semi-lingual issues, and helps her overcome them.
I was in a similar position once. I tutored a high-school girl who grew up in different countries, hence her Japanese skills were lacking. The problem was, her elite father thought she was intellectually lacking. He hired me because he was worried about his daughter and her language skills, even though she was a pretty good English speaker.
This embodies an underlying cultural lens though which Japanese people see and judge themselves. Being a proper Japanese person is not only about nationality, but also ethnicity, education, as well as speaking and writing the language. We spend grueling 9 years just to memorize the endless lists of kanji, how they should be written (correct stroke orders) and read: one kanji can have two, three, even four different ways of being read.
The story of this manga (a girl wants to become an astronaut, and a boy who helps her) might not amount to much if it didn't have this incisive critique of the Japanese societal norms. Reading this reminded me a lot about the difficulties I faced as a language teacher. Being a language teacher here means to go against the grains of the society...sometimes, like the young couple in this manga does.
Fundamentally, this is a story about fighting social expectations which could be suffocating, especially so if you are an outsider. With that regard, it is a successful story. In addition, it is a tale of young kids who want to go to space with their earnest innocence. Even if you don't approve of the Musk/Bezos-style hyper-capitalist space exploration, you surely can admire those aspiring kids. Because we all should.
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