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ライフ [Life] #9
Life, Vol. 9
After the hospital incident, Ayumu gains sympathy at school, which makes things a lot more difficult for Manami to win everybody to her side. So she devises a scheme to cast herself once again as the victim...and she'll take down more than Ayumu with it.
176 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2007
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Keiko Suenobu
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Keiko Suenobu is a female Japanese shōjo manga artist from Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka. In 2006, Suenobu's manga series, Life won the Kodansha Manga Award for best shōjo manga. Wikipedia
Keiko Suenobu is a female Japanese shōjo manga artist from Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka. In 2006, Suenobu's manga series, Life won the Kodansha Manga Award for best shōjo manga. Wikipedia
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January 27, 2024
CW: bullying, sexual assault
Manami is infuriating, and that's the fault of all of the adults who let her get away with it. Like the girl who was my bully in middle school, she has perfect parent manners, and if you flat-out told the adults that she's doing drugs and having sex outside of school, not a single one would believe you. In fact, they don't believe Ayumu when she's throwing it in their faces that Manami is the culprit behind the turmoil in class 1-2. That's the most infuriating part of this book: the sheer, pigheaded and willful stupidity of the homeroom teacher and almost every other adult with the power to do something. They won't listen to Ayumu and Hatori, they won't pull their heads out of their asses and do something, because they don't want to believe that they could be wrong.
Situations like these are what made me swear that I would never forget what it's like to be a survivor. That I would always look beneath the surface of a situation, and that I would always believe victims and survivors. There's hope in this story, because the assistant teacher is much more aware than the other teachers want her to be, and we've finally gotten a decent male character, one who is also a survivor of bullying. But it's still a long, hard road ahead. The literal least anyone in a position of power could do is listen.
Manami is infuriating, and that's the fault of all of the adults who let her get away with it. Like the girl who was my bully in middle school, she has perfect parent manners, and if you flat-out told the adults that she's doing drugs and having sex outside of school, not a single one would believe you. In fact, they don't believe Ayumu when she's throwing it in their faces that Manami is the culprit behind the turmoil in class 1-2. That's the most infuriating part of this book: the sheer, pigheaded and willful stupidity of the homeroom teacher and almost every other adult with the power to do something. They won't listen to Ayumu and Hatori, they won't pull their heads out of their asses and do something, because they don't want to believe that they could be wrong.
Situations like these are what made me swear that I would never forget what it's like to be a survivor. That I would always look beneath the surface of a situation, and that I would always believe victims and survivors. There's hope in this story, because the assistant teacher is much more aware than the other teachers want her to be, and we've finally gotten a decent male character, one who is also a survivor of bullying. But it's still a long, hard road ahead. The literal least anyone in a position of power could do is listen.
August 7, 2017
5/10
¿Qué demonios le ha pasado a la autora en este tomo? No entiendo ese intento de comicidad en algunas escenas, está completamente fuera de lugar y rompe el clima de la obra :s.
Además, la actitud de Manami ha llegado a un punto demasiado exagerado y absurdo que ya no da miedo, sino risa.
Qué pena, espero que la obra se recupere en el siguiente volumen.
¿Qué demonios le ha pasado a la autora en este tomo? No entiendo ese intento de comicidad en algunas escenas, está completamente fuera de lugar y rompe el clima de la obra :s.
Además, la actitud de Manami ha llegado a un punto demasiado exagerado y absurdo que ya no da miedo, sino risa.
Qué pena, espero que la obra se recupere en el siguiente volumen.
March 22, 2022
I'm guessing that Keiko Suenobu had a rough experience in school based on reading this series. It is hard to imagine it could have been as awful as this series suggests (although it may have felt as awful to her). I was bullied in school, but made it through anyway. It appears she did as well (with more scars than I have).
Anyway, it was an interesting series, but nine volumes is enough!
Anyway, it was an interesting series, but nine volumes is enough!
November 5, 2008
Ridiculous.
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