Philosophia

by 天野しゅにんた, Amano Shuninta

「大学って、将来のために勉強するところだよね？」新歓飲み会オトコ合コン色校沙汰，etc,etc...女子大生・愛の、大学での１年目はあっという間に過ぎ去っていった。なんの変化もない大学生活2年目を送る彼女に訪れた、１つ上の先輩・知との再会。入学式の時に出会ったあのころから感じていた、知のとらえどころのない不思議な魅力に、しだいに惹かれていく愛―。氏が2年にわたり発表した同人作品[philosophia]をまとめた、総集編的な一冊。

Genres: Manga, Yuri, LGBT, Comics, Romance, Graphic Novels

189 pages, Paperback

First published August 19, 2014

Reviews

[Sofia · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5☆
LMAO what the fuck
This had potential but, honestly, its a complete mess
It was a fun trash but not a quality trash ykwim?

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely drawing style but the actual story line was a bit weak for me. I know it's a slice of life / josei style manga, but I wanted to hear more about them, as I did like the characters themselves.

[anni · Rating 3 out of 5]

no fucking way wtf was this ending i HATE IT HERE

[Staisy T · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m giving this five starts for one reason and one reason only; art is supposed to make you feel, and it made me feel a lot of things. Yes, mostly anger and irritation. But that ending where the love interest disappears into the sea…
I saw many people comment believing it was a suicide, but due to the vagueness of her disappearance, for me it seems like she faked her death, but that is neither here nor there.
In any case, it flipped a switch in me that triggered many of my own emotions and memories.
It took a lot of mulling over, butI think that I finally understand why I had such an adverse reaction to this story. For me personally, it was a visual representation of my worst nightmare: falling in love with someone unworthy, have them disappear, and never being able to move on. The protagonist kept reading the books of that woman over and over, trying to understand her better, trying to keep her alive. Hell, I keep trying to find meanings in books as well. Still for me it is a violent reminder of the fragile mortality of my fragile psyche, and how my world could be turned back to who I was over a decade ago.
I have faced actual mortality more times than I could count. I feel that I might have made some sort of pact with the devil in my dreams, and so I’m still here. And yet there is no greater terror in my eyes than being reduced to a sad sac of atoms whose happiness is wholly dependant on another, callous and selfish, human being. The least reliable in the animal kingdom. I cannot fathom such an existence in which one does not meet a very bitter end.

[Cynthia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh after all the obfuscation and contrived vagueness, we end up with a suggested suicide that made no sense based on what we have been told until now, with the main charracter mourning for 2 decades, just to then get a contrived and honestly crappy "resolution" via a hinted age gap with the implied little sister of the love interest.

(I did not remember this much when I re-read it, so I was even more angry at the ending.)

[pb · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story itself had peaks and lows but the art was beautiful and I kind of understood where they were going, what they were trying to do with each chapter - how deeply they wanted to interweave the quotes that are spread across the chapters within the story itself. The ending isn't conclusive in any real way but a story like probably can never be?

[laurau · Rating 2 out of 5]

didn’t really affect me nor my life in any way. the character designs were gorgeous and the art itself but with little to no plot it was a bit wasted in my opinion. yes it was short but the ending could’ve been done differently yet it still could’ve had it’s angst.

[Izamara Silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

não esperava esse final, estou devastada

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Depressing.

[kashika ⟢ · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautifully haunting narrative that sticks with you even after you have finished reading.