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ばらかもん [Barakamon] #9
Barakamon Vol. 9
HAHH HAHH HAAAH!? PADAHAL AKU TAK PERNAH LATIHAN LARI!!
Handa, sang kaligrafer muda yang tampan, dipilih sebagai pelari estafet dalam Festival Olahraga Sekabupaten. Padahal dia sama sekali tak pernah latihan lari.
Tanpa mengetahui itu, para bapak-bapak bertekad mengalahkan desa tetangga dalam festival ini dan menaruh harapan mereka itu pada sang maestro!!
Handa, sang kaligrafer muda yang tampan, dipilih sebagai pelari estafet dalam Festival Olahraga Sekabupaten. Padahal dia sama sekali tak pernah latihan lari.
Tanpa mengetahui itu, para bapak-bapak bertekad mengalahkan desa tetangga dalam festival ini dan menaruh harapan mereka itu pada sang maestro!!
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 21, 2014
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Satsuki Yoshino
80 books93 followersYOSHINO Satsuki
Name (in native language): ヨシノサツキ
Zodiac: Gemini
Name (in native language): ヨシノサツキ
Zodiac: Gemini
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September 19, 2024
A sports festival between rival villages gets way too intense..
September 5, 2019
Fun little sports festival.
World: Fun art that drives some beautiful character emotions. World building is small and intimate with some nice little touches of town life.
Story: Fun tale of town sports meet and growth of characters. Nice stuff with Hiro which has been long time coming. I like the strong focus on the two events and the building of the feeling of town and community.
Characters: Great work with Hiro and wonderful stuff with the townsfolk were well done.
Love it.
Onward to the next book!
World: Fun art that drives some beautiful character emotions. World building is small and intimate with some nice little touches of town life.
Story: Fun tale of town sports meet and growth of characters. Nice stuff with Hiro which has been long time coming. I like the strong focus on the two events and the building of the feeling of town and community.
Characters: Great work with Hiro and wonderful stuff with the townsfolk were well done.
Love it.
Onward to the next book!
July 15, 2017
This volume does a wonderful and honest take on some serious issues in the villager's lives (while still keeping that "warm" feeling that this manga has in general). The art and storytelling of Barakamon has always been pretty, but I noted that it got even better after the mangaka started doing the sidestory Handa-kun. The character-design got more defined and the art-style feels more sure somehow (more bold and clean lines?).
September 22, 2018
This is cute. Good Hiroshi stuff. Not enough Naru.
March 4, 2022
Chronique à venir
May 23, 2016
Volume yang menyenangkan! Cukup banyak adegan yang bisa bikin jantung saya berhenti mendadak, (momen dobel H itu, menggemaskan sekali~ juga khayalan tama soal "pinggang" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)), banyak adegan yang lucu juga (≧▽≦)
Lalu adegan paling dari yang paling XDD
Wkwkk XDD
Lalu adegan paling dari yang paling XDD
Wkwkk XDD
December 11, 2016
More about village life....this time a competition that Sensei gets involved in.
December 2, 2018
I really feel like every chapter builds on the past now, not just random slices of life which was my issue earlier in this series. Lots of good things happen in this volume and I can’t wait to get the next ones from the library. I also want to reread the Handa-Kun series so I can remember the Dash issue and know if that’s the other villager. The end notes failed me this time, there were a number of things I wanted some more explanation about but there were fewer translation notes than usual and they were for things I didn’t care about nearly as much like random shop signs in Nagasaki I barely bothered to read.
January 30, 2024
It's full steam ahead for the village as they try to win their annual sports festival... luckily they have a shoe in... being Handa in the relay race. This is the first volume where I truly start to feel that Handa is wanting to be and stay apart of the village life! No matter how quirky !! But it was also super adorable for Hiroshi to start to try to find his way and his future and what that may look like without the island!!
March 13, 2021
Loving this manga so much!
Barakamon is so good. This is too good to be missed out. I'm loving the slice of life and everything about this manga. Handa's mood swings are so relatable. Conclusion, this manga is a whole new world. Truly a masterpiece! Please give it a read. Ps: Barakamon also has an anime version!
Barakamon is so good. This is too good to be missed out. I'm loving the slice of life and everything about this manga. Handa's mood swings are so relatable. Conclusion, this manga is a whole new world. Truly a masterpiece! Please give it a read. Ps: Barakamon also has an anime version!
October 11, 2018
Inter-village sports festival!
Results of the amateur manga contest!
Hiro's first job interview! "The Big City" (Nagasaki) is overwhelming. It's okay, Hiro, I was confused by the train station the first time, too.
Results of the amateur manga contest!
Hiro's first job interview! "The Big City" (Nagasaki) is overwhelming. It's okay, Hiro, I was confused by the train station the first time, too.
December 29, 2018
Baca Barakamon selalu ada yg bikin diam menerung, bahkan setelah cekikikan..
Daya tarik cerita atau yg bikin cerita? Yg pasti, daya tarik itu yg bikin saya pgn baca lagi volume2 lainnya.. good job author!!👏👏
Daya tarik cerita atau yg bikin cerita? Yg pasti, daya tarik itu yg bikin saya pgn baca lagi volume2 lainnya.. good job author!!👏👏
April 10, 2024
After over a year of not being able to get more volumes of this series, my library finally got volumes 8 and 9 in, with volume 10 on order. I'm reminded again, after reading volume 8, what a charming series this is about a small village on the Goto Islands in Japan.
February 19, 2018
These are so cute I want more.
June 8, 2019
Filler and filler and filler to the point telling stories not related to the main character.
July 19, 2019
I WANT MORE DASH
September 19, 2019
Pretty great adorable slice of life manga, really love it!!😻😁📖🖋
October 13, 2020
Bakalan jadi lomba desa terkonyol sepanjang sejarah perlombaan 🤣🤣
December 5, 2022
3.5
A good manga, but more slice-of-life and less hard-hitting than the previous volume. The story is still really fun, and I really liked the Nagasaki scenes as well. It was also fun to see Handa becoming a part of the village.
A good manga, but more slice-of-life and less hard-hitting than the previous volume. The story is still really fun, and I really liked the Nagasaki scenes as well. It was also fun to see Handa becoming a part of the village.
December 8, 2022
What’s funny is how you know about Handa’s running from Handa-Kun. 😁
February 13, 2023
Well written, funny. This featured a tournament within the village. Not the most original, but it’s a fun arc. Hiroshi is figuring out his career path, that was explored well too.
April 10, 2023
I'm so glad I picked up this series.
June 4, 2024
This series is such a perfect comfort read. What's the conflict? A small town relay. That's it. I could read 1000 volumes of this series
January 1, 2025
話は書道やなると半田の関係から離れているが結構好きだった。
島の村人の体操会編は面白くて何回も笑わせた。
ヒロシの面接編���笑ったがそれより同感した。新しい場所に行って新しい経験して怖いことだ。他の人と面接するのはいやだ、自分を比べるし。私の面接いつも一人よかったと思う。
島の村人の体操会編は面白くて何回も笑わせた。
ヒロシの面接編���笑ったがそれより同感した。新しい場所に行って新しい経験して怖いことだ。他の人と面接するのはいやだ、自分を比べるし。私の面接いつも一人よかったと思う。
December 21, 2025
4.5/5 stars
January 7, 2017
My favorite volume so far. Senses is becoming part of the community.
October 19, 2020
Review of volumes 7-9
Barakamon as a series has been something of a slow-starter for me. I enjoyed but wasn't overwhelmed (or even just super happy with) the first three volumes (my review), but enjoyed it more as Handa settled into life on the island and developed relationships with the villagers, particularly the gaggle of K-12 children who continue to be drawn to him like moths to a flame.
I mentioned in my review of volumes 4-6 (link) that the change of scenery in volume 5 was a much-needed break from the village setting and continuous "Handa gets weirded out and is uptight and kids think he's funny" storyline--a fun story to be sure, but one that risked getting overplayed.
Happily, now that Handa and the kids are well-established, the story takes us into the kids' lives as well. This works for multiple reasons:
-First, the kids are just fun characters. As much as they make fun of Handa for being weird, they have their own quirks--Tama and her obsession with horror manga and categorizing Handa+associates into boys love-type manga situations, plus normal middle school hijinks; Hiroshi facing the end of 12th grade and trying to figure out what to do with his life when everyone considers him ordinary, and more.
-Second, this keeps the story moving and, like I mentioned before, allows for a wider range of stories and situations than what could feature Handa as the protagonist of every chapter.
-Third and most importantly, this allows the reader, like Handa, to get more comfortable and fall in love with the villagers and the setting. Sure they're really weird but now it's starting to be endearing.
And speaking of endearing, I gasped aloud at the end of volume 9 when, as the villagers all gather to celebrate/relax after the inter-village field day, a tipsy Handa proclaims "NEXT YEAR'S WHEN WE'LL WIN! The change has been gradual, but Handa is starting to let the island feel like home. Now we just have to wait and see when he'll acknowledge it sober.
Barakamon as a series has been something of a slow-starter for me. I enjoyed but wasn't overwhelmed (or even just super happy with) the first three volumes (my review), but enjoyed it more as Handa settled into life on the island and developed relationships with the villagers, particularly the gaggle of K-12 children who continue to be drawn to him like moths to a flame.
I mentioned in my review of volumes 4-6 (link) that the change of scenery in volume 5 was a much-needed break from the village setting and continuous "Handa gets weirded out and is uptight and kids think he's funny" storyline--a fun story to be sure, but one that risked getting overplayed.
Happily, now that Handa and the kids are well-established, the story takes us into the kids' lives as well. This works for multiple reasons:
-First, the kids are just fun characters. As much as they make fun of Handa for being weird, they have their own quirks--Tama and her obsession with horror manga and categorizing Handa+associates into boys love-type manga situations, plus normal middle school hijinks; Hiroshi facing the end of 12th grade and trying to figure out what to do with his life when everyone considers him ordinary, and more.
-Second, this keeps the story moving and, like I mentioned before, allows for a wider range of stories and situations than what could feature Handa as the protagonist of every chapter.
-Third and most importantly, this allows the reader, like Handa, to get more comfortable and fall in love with the villagers and the setting. Sure they're really weird but now it's starting to be endearing.
And speaking of endearing, I gasped aloud at the end of volume 9 when, as the villagers all gather to celebrate/relax after the inter-village field day, a tipsy Handa proclaims "NEXT YEAR'S WHEN WE'LL WIN! The change has been gradual, but Handa is starting to let the island feel like home. Now we just have to wait and see when he'll acknowledge it sober.
December 29, 2016
Yay! Hiroshi is blond again!
August 7, 2016
Even in their downtime, the residents of Nanatsutake have made it their priority to drive Handa-sensei crazy with their local curiosities.
This volume of BARAKAMON is notable for how very little it features either sensei or Naru. After two or three volumes in which readers were teased with tales of a more serious and contemplative manner, the present volume breaks away (notably rated All Ages) and drifts into the realm of "What else is going on?"
Hiroshi leaves the island for a short stint in Nagasaki for a job interview. At which point in time he becomes horribly agoraphobic, becomes a minor celebrity, is enamored with a pretty woman who then becomes his rival, and may or may not have botched the interview altogether. The young man does, however, learn the valuable life lesson of staying true to his instincts, even if those instincts are kinda dumb. (In the end, it's sensei to the rescue.)
Tama finally learns the results of the manga contest, and it's not pretty. Fortunately, her family is there to console her (they're horrible at it, of course) as is sensei (whom actually helps, in his own way). Tama's evolution from a stand-in child-version of Handa-sensei, and into her own, small-town tortured artist is a tiny but gratifying bit of character growth within BARAKAMON that is surely being overlooked.
The island sports festival is a hilarious if minor expansion of how the people of Nanatsutake view the world. Nobody in the village really knows what they're doing because nobody's good at anything other than what they're already doing. Tama's father is a paper-pusher and a weakling. Miwa's father remains an overzealous blowhard. And the kids get shuffled around like chess pieces because the adults (in having set the bar so inescapably low) are scared of repeating their failures for the nth time in a row.
So goes the island life.
This volume of BARAKAMON is notable for how very little it features either sensei or Naru. After two or three volumes in which readers were teased with tales of a more serious and contemplative manner, the present volume breaks away (notably rated All Ages) and drifts into the realm of "What else is going on?"
Hiroshi leaves the island for a short stint in Nagasaki for a job interview. At which point in time he becomes horribly agoraphobic, becomes a minor celebrity, is enamored with a pretty woman who then becomes his rival, and may or may not have botched the interview altogether. The young man does, however, learn the valuable life lesson of staying true to his instincts, even if those instincts are kinda dumb. (In the end, it's sensei to the rescue.)
Tama finally learns the results of the manga contest, and it's not pretty. Fortunately, her family is there to console her (they're horrible at it, of course) as is sensei (whom actually helps, in his own way). Tama's evolution from a stand-in child-version of Handa-sensei, and into her own, small-town tortured artist is a tiny but gratifying bit of character growth within BARAKAMON that is surely being overlooked.
The island sports festival is a hilarious if minor expansion of how the people of Nanatsutake view the world. Nobody in the village really knows what they're doing because nobody's good at anything other than what they're already doing. Tama's father is a paper-pusher and a weakling. Miwa's father remains an overzealous blowhard. And the kids get shuffled around like chess pieces because the adults (in having set the bar so inescapably low) are scared of repeating their failures for the nth time in a row.
So goes the island life.
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