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ひばりの朝 / Hibari no asa #2
ひばりの朝 2
怪作にして真骨頂、完結。少女の最も気持ち悪い噂。「息を止めていたので平気でした」
「『おなじ女』ってあたしとあのこが？」“父親からの性的虐待”。学校中に広まった噂に日波里（ひばり）は完全に居場所をなくすが、彼女に恋する同級生・相川（あいかわ）はその手をとろうとする。また一方で、日波里の闇を知った富子（とみこ）は、女としての劣等感を抱えながら恋人・完（かん）との7年の歪みに対峙する瞬間を迎えていた。男は、女は、少年は、家族は、毒の渦中にたたずむ少女に何をもたらすのか──？人の心の光と泥濘（でいねい）を深く怜悧（れいり）に切り取ったヤマシタトモコの新たなる金字塔、ここに完結！
「『おなじ女』ってあたしとあのこが？」“父親からの性的虐待”。学校中に広まった噂に日波里（ひばり）は完全に居場所をなくすが、彼女に恋する同級生・相川（あいかわ）はその手をとろうとする。また一方で、日波里の闇を知った富子（とみこ）は、女としての劣等感を抱えながら恋人・完（かん）との7年の歪みに対峙する瞬間を迎えていた。男は、女は、少年は、家族は、毒の渦中にたたずむ少女に何をもたらすのか──？人の心の光と泥濘（でいねい）を深く怜悧（れいり）に切り取ったヤマシタトモコの新たなる金字塔、ここに完結！
194 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 8, 2013
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August 31, 2024
Було якось гидко? напевно, читати, бо мене дуже дратує коли люди звинувачують жертву в домаганні, і сама людина вже теж вірить, що вона винна. А ще у неї була «подруга», яка розповіла про те, що її домагались, хоча вона сказала їй по секрету.
August 16, 2023
Oh, I thoroughly enjoyed it, including the message and emotions it left behind at the conclusion. So wonderful and moving
June 13, 2023
the way the story focuses on the main character but never on her. God, this is so heartbreaking.
August 13, 2024
It feels wrong to give this a rating in a way.
I think this is one of the only manga to completely emotionally devastate me so deeply.
Everyone is happy to either ignore the signs of what's happening to Hibari, blissfully ignorant, some even willingly or sit there and think, "Oh, it's not really my place" or more coldly "How can I wash my hands of this?"
The narrative of both volumes even makes a point of never seeing too much from Hibari's perspective, it's instead from the way the world and others see her.
Grown women being hateful to this child for the body she never asked for, other teens being cruel and awful, Kento framing her in such a sexual way before seeming to wake up and realise this is a child who is asking for help.
One teenage girl views Hibari confiding in her about the fear she feels towards her father as fun gossip, saying something along the lines of another persons suffering can taste like honey. Until she suffers in a similar way and the horror of the experience, the way society has failed so many, rears it's ugly head.
And then the gut punch of that one morning for Hibari. It does not give you a ending where people step in and do the right thing. It's instead so much more realistic in the absence of power Hibari has and how society, the patriarchy, does nothing for the millions of girls who have gone through something similar.
The millions who are silenced.
TW: CSA, incest, victim blaming.
I think this is one of the only manga to completely emotionally devastate me so deeply.
Everyone is happy to either ignore the signs of what's happening to Hibari, blissfully ignorant, some even willingly or sit there and think, "Oh, it's not really my place" or more coldly "How can I wash my hands of this?"
The narrative of both volumes even makes a point of never seeing too much from Hibari's perspective, it's instead from the way the world and others see her.
Grown women being hateful to this child for the body she never asked for, other teens being cruel and awful, Kento framing her in such a sexual way before seeming to wake up and realise this is a child who is asking for help.
One teenage girl views Hibari confiding in her about the fear she feels towards her father as fun gossip, saying something along the lines of another persons suffering can taste like honey. Until she suffers in a similar way and the horror of the experience, the way society has failed so many, rears it's ugly head.
And then the gut punch of that one morning for Hibari. It does not give you a ending where people step in and do the right thing. It's instead so much more realistic in the absence of power Hibari has and how society, the patriarchy, does nothing for the millions of girls who have gone through something similar.
The millions who are silenced.
TW: CSA, incest, victim blaming.
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August 13, 2024how one's suffering can be drowned by the selfishness of others
how many things could have turned out differently if we, as humans, weren't governed by ego?
it was quite an emotional and fast reading. i like the idea of not being able to hear directly from the point of the character. she's been silenced for existing as a whole, complete being outside of any of the stereotypes pushed onto her
how many things could have turned out differently if we, as humans, weren't governed by ego?
it was quite an emotional and fast reading. i like the idea of not being able to hear directly from the point of the character. she's been silenced for existing as a whole, complete being outside of any of the stereotypes pushed onto her
March 2, 2025
tomoko yamashita truly knows how to write a devastating story. this manga is real, raw and uncomfortable, and i will remember it for a long time.
July 29, 2026
I've been slowly reading everything I can find from Tomoko Yamashita since the beginning of the year, and the moment I'm so close to getting through the end of her catalog I finally find something closer to the greatness of Ikoku Nikki. Yamashita has a way to make characterizations so complex it makes my brain boil. Her characters are not villains, but she lets them voice their ugliest thoughts, their most perverse inclinations. They are common people, but common people can be ruthless, apathetic, negligent.
If you are in need of crash course in misogyny, look no further: this is it. Yamashita paints an uncomfortable and sadly realistic scenario about living under the patriarchy. I could say that the biggest lesson here is "believe victims", but that's not true. Plenty of people believed Hibari but took her suffering as gossip or as a burden that was not up to them to carry. No, if there's one lesson to get out of this story, it's to not be a bystander. Don't wait for somebody else to take action, don't wash your hands off the problem. YOU get up and do something.
If you are in need of crash course in misogyny, look no further: this is it. Yamashita paints an uncomfortable and sadly realistic scenario about living under the patriarchy. I could say that the biggest lesson here is "believe victims", but that's not true. Plenty of people believed Hibari but took her suffering as gossip or as a burden that was not up to them to carry. No, if there's one lesson to get out of this story, it's to not be a bystander. Don't wait for somebody else to take action, don't wash your hands off the problem. YOU get up and do something.
May 8, 2023
TW: suicidal ideation, self-harm, sexual abuse, neglect
I think there was some dissatisfaction with the way this ended, but I think it was a good one. I think we don't need the confirmation, and we also should be open to interpretation. But on reading the afterword, it does kind of quietly confirm the dread you feel reading this story. It's an open ending, but it's also bleak. It almost seems like Yamashita thought about how it would end first, and to give voice to Hibari's story, and as she said "the dumping ground for so much anger I've felt throughout my life". The entire story is shaped by inaction by every single person, even Hibari, but that's also because she's 14 and has literally no power. The one time she chooses to speak out and assert her agency, she's told it must have been a mistake. The story is so horrifyingly realistic that it really could be about any teenage girl out there.
I think there was some dissatisfaction with the way this ended, but I think it was a good one. I think we don't need the confirmation, and we also should be open to interpretation. But on reading the afterword, it does kind of quietly confirm the dread you feel reading this story. It's an open ending, but it's also bleak. It almost seems like Yamashita thought about how it would end first, and to give voice to Hibari's story, and as she said "the dumping ground for so much anger I've felt throughout my life". The entire story is shaped by inaction by every single person, even Hibari, but that's also because she's 14 and has literally no power. The one time she chooses to speak out and assert her agency, she's told it must have been a mistake. The story is so horrifyingly realistic that it really could be about any teenage girl out there.
January 30, 2022
the authors afterword:
"As I wrote it
this story became
the dumping ground
for so much anger
I've felt throughout my life.
But I think anger and hatred
and envy and scorn
and love and pity and apathy
are all mirrors.
I never want to give up on
trying to be a good person."
this was such a cruel and raw story, it made me feel full of anger. everyone failed hibari, everyone considered hibari's own body as a public property, no one took her seriously.
I loved the approach to tell this story, to be narrated from everyone around her on the first volume and the being hibari centric on the last, you can see the author's put her whole hearth on this piece if work.
"As I wrote it
this story became
the dumping ground
for so much anger
I've felt throughout my life.
But I think anger and hatred
and envy and scorn
and love and pity and apathy
are all mirrors.
I never want to give up on
trying to be a good person."
this was such a cruel and raw story, it made me feel full of anger. everyone failed hibari, everyone considered hibari's own body as a public property, no one took her seriously.
I loved the approach to tell this story, to be narrated from everyone around her on the first volume and the being hibari centric on the last, you can see the author's put her whole hearth on this piece if work.
January 11, 2025
An absolutely brutal look at rape culture. I almost knocked off a star for the ending but thinking on it further I realised that it would most likely be reality for anyone in this situation. There’s no accountability, no peace, just holding of the breath and running forever.
February 12, 2025
horrible horrible horrible la fin m'a vraiment brisé le coeur
je n'ai personnellement pas énormément accroché mais c'est très bien écrit, j'ai bien apprécié l'alternance entre les points de vues des différents personnages autour du même sujet principal
je n'ai personnellement pas énormément accroché mais c'est très bien écrit, j'ai bien apprécié l'alternance entre les points de vues des différents personnages autour du même sujet principal
April 30, 2021
The way the adults deliberately failed this child is unbelievable and upsetting, and the author’s note at the end is devastating.
TW: sexual abuse, victim blaming, child neglect
TW: sexual abuse, victim blaming, child neglect
August 11, 2023
I'm content with the ending. It is delicate, cruel and beautiful. I have never felt more seen. Thank you sensei for this work of art.
August 13, 2024
this series was beautifully written. i love the way it toys with perspective and pov by making a story about hibari that never gives her a voice. as someone else’s review says, this could be about any 14 year old girl. and maybe it is.
August 13, 2024
run hibari, run.
August 13, 2024
Devastating, and too real. Normally I’m really not a slice of life reader at all, but reading this I feel pretty damn converted. Beautifully drawn, painfully written.
January 10, 2026
The afterword broke me. Another amazing story that felt way too personal
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