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はんだくん [Handa-kun] #7
はんだくん 7
(今度こそ)さらば、我が青春の半田。
「はんだくん」本編完結後に描かれた番外編3本に加え、月刊「少年ガンガン」にのみ掲載されていたカラー4コマ漫画や単行本発売時の描き下ろし特典イラストなどを一挙収録。さらに作者ヨシノサツキによる解説コラムも掲載。これが正真正銘「はんだくん」最終巻! !
「はんだくん」本編完結後に描かれた番外編3本に加え、月刊「少年ガンガン」にのみ掲載されていたカラー4コマ漫画や単行本発売時の描き下ろし特典イラストなどを一挙収録。さらに作者ヨシノサツキによる解説コラムも掲載。これが正真正銘「はんだくん」最終巻! !
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First published September 12, 2016
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Satsuki Yoshino
80 books94 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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March 17, 2018
Edisi bonus volume, diakhiri dengan reuni kelas 6 tahun kemudian. Handa-kun malah gak tampak samsek, sdh sibuk di pulaunya.
Akhir kata membaca seri ini, aku sulit sekali dapat mentertawakan candaannya. Lain saat membaca, katakan saja seri Nozaki yang mampu bikin aku terpingkal-pingkal hanya dalam 3-4 panel. Sifat Handa yg bikin tembok, salah pengertian yg dingin dan pesimisnya Handa, menjauhkan tawa dan kekeh.
Nb, kenapa hanya edisi Elex saja di cover nomer ini yg ada foto insert-nya Handa palsu?
Akhir kata membaca seri ini, aku sulit sekali dapat mentertawakan candaannya. Lain saat membaca, katakan saja seri Nozaki yang mampu bikin aku terpingkal-pingkal hanya dalam 3-4 panel. Sifat Handa yg bikin tembok, salah pengertian yg dingin dan pesimisnya Handa, menjauhkan tawa dan kekeh.
Nb, kenapa hanya edisi Elex saja di cover nomer ini yg ada foto insert-nya Handa palsu?
January 27, 2020
Such a great series! I can't believe I finished it already.
June 26, 2021
This is a review for the whole series.
This is a prequel to Barakamon about Handa in high school. Handa's high school experience was briefly mentioned in Barakamon, but it never really went into depth. Handa is going to high school and is so popular that no one talks to him. Handa believes that everyone despises him. This is hilarious, but it doesn't go much farther than that. This is really just something to read for laughs. Don't expect anything deep at all. Many people hating Handa end up loving him after completely misunderstanding his actions, intentions, and entire character while Handa is completely misunderstanding everyone around him. I loved the simple but hilarious plot.
The main characters are actually the people who follow around Handa and completely misunderstand his every move. They are obviously stupid and not very deep, but it is fun to watch them.
Overall, this was a fun read. It was funny and stupid. I would recommend this to people who like funny manga that doesn't make sense.
This is a prequel to Barakamon about Handa in high school. Handa's high school experience was briefly mentioned in Barakamon, but it never really went into depth. Handa is going to high school and is so popular that no one talks to him. Handa believes that everyone despises him. This is hilarious, but it doesn't go much farther than that. This is really just something to read for laughs. Don't expect anything deep at all. Many people hating Handa end up loving him after completely misunderstanding his actions, intentions, and entire character while Handa is completely misunderstanding everyone around him. I loved the simple but hilarious plot.
The main characters are actually the people who follow around Handa and completely misunderstand his every move. They are obviously stupid and not very deep, but it is fun to watch them.
Overall, this was a fun read. It was funny and stupid. I would recommend this to people who like funny manga that doesn't make sense.
December 13, 2016
I love this series!
December 6, 2017
In Summary
It’s the final volume of Handa-kun, but it feels more like a fan book with all the illustrations and bonus material crammed inside. However, Yoshino-sensei does deliver three final mini-arcs. Two are simply more manifestations of HND-syndrome, but the third is a fun glimpse of Handa’s classmates as adults and how they’ve grown up (or not).
The Review
It’s the final volume of the series! But it’s not so much a final arc as it is a collection of illustrations, comics, and mini-stories. It opens with a Special Comic Gallery: nine full color pages of color manga that had previously been only published in the magazine.
Next are three mini-arcs, each with a lengthy note from the Yoshino-sensei about its creation. Although all the stories take place after Handa realizes he’s not actually an outcast, the feel of first two stories don’t differ all that much from the earlier arcs. That is because even though Handa’s eyes have been opened to the truth, that doesn’t mean his classmates are suddenly cured of HND-syndrome. As such, fans of the impassioned hijinks of the Handa Army will get to enjoy one additional chapter of the same in “Handa-kun and the TV Anime.” As you might guess, this mini-arc includes a tie-in to the actual Handa-kun anime as well as the Handa Army’s disastrous attempt to create an anime of their own. As for “Handa-kun and the Person in Front,” it follows the “Handa-kun through a side character’s POV” format. Again, even though Handa realizes he’s not despised, that doesn’t stop his classmates from grossly misinterpreting his words and actions.
The final mini-arc, “Handa-kun and the Handa Army,” is a more standard type of postscript story. Handa’s homeroom class holds a reunion, and we get to see how everyone looks six years later. One of the nice touches of this volume is that the cover illustration is a class photo and the book’s final illustration shows everyone in the same pose as adults. Since Handa has a whole series dedicated to his life after school, Yoshino-sensei instead uses the reunion as a way for the class to gossip about Handa and each other. However, she does manage to connect it to the Barakamon series at the end.
Interspersed amid the mini-arcs are a lot of bonus illustrations, and finally, the volume wraps up with several pages of mini-comics, even more bonus illustrations, and the last installment of “Handa-Kun News.”
For more manga and book reviews, drop by my blog Keeping It In Canon!
It’s the final volume of Handa-kun, but it feels more like a fan book with all the illustrations and bonus material crammed inside. However, Yoshino-sensei does deliver three final mini-arcs. Two are simply more manifestations of HND-syndrome, but the third is a fun glimpse of Handa’s classmates as adults and how they’ve grown up (or not).
The Review
It’s the final volume of the series! But it’s not so much a final arc as it is a collection of illustrations, comics, and mini-stories. It opens with a Special Comic Gallery: nine full color pages of color manga that had previously been only published in the magazine.
Next are three mini-arcs, each with a lengthy note from the Yoshino-sensei about its creation. Although all the stories take place after Handa realizes he’s not actually an outcast, the feel of first two stories don’t differ all that much from the earlier arcs. That is because even though Handa’s eyes have been opened to the truth, that doesn’t mean his classmates are suddenly cured of HND-syndrome. As such, fans of the impassioned hijinks of the Handa Army will get to enjoy one additional chapter of the same in “Handa-kun and the TV Anime.” As you might guess, this mini-arc includes a tie-in to the actual Handa-kun anime as well as the Handa Army’s disastrous attempt to create an anime of their own. As for “Handa-kun and the Person in Front,” it follows the “Handa-kun through a side character’s POV” format. Again, even though Handa realizes he’s not despised, that doesn’t stop his classmates from grossly misinterpreting his words and actions.
The final mini-arc, “Handa-kun and the Handa Army,” is a more standard type of postscript story. Handa’s homeroom class holds a reunion, and we get to see how everyone looks six years later. One of the nice touches of this volume is that the cover illustration is a class photo and the book’s final illustration shows everyone in the same pose as adults. Since Handa has a whole series dedicated to his life after school, Yoshino-sensei instead uses the reunion as a way for the class to gossip about Handa and each other. However, she does manage to connect it to the Barakamon series at the end.
Interspersed amid the mini-arcs are a lot of bonus illustrations, and finally, the volume wraps up with several pages of mini-comics, even more bonus illustrations, and the last installment of “Handa-Kun News.”
For more manga and book reviews, drop by my blog Keeping It In Canon!
January 18, 2021
Class reunions have always been a bit of an emotional sham, but when Class 2-7 convenes a half-dozen years after graduation to confer on where their lives have gone (and reflect on how much Handa-kun has influenced them), the event is about as peculiar and bittersweet as one would expect. And sure enough, the funnily intertwined egos that constitute the "Handa Army" are as risible as always.
HANDA-KUN #7 is a patchwork of short stories and reflections. The volume's pair of bonus arcs are quirky tales involving secondary characters that will either split one's sides or lead to groan-induced eye rolling. That is to say, the author's penchant for tweaking the frantic and ostentatious personalities at the heart of this manga series for even the most superfluous and drawn out side stories can reap rewards.
For example, in an uncomfortable brush with meta-fiction, the characters decide to make their own animated TV show based on Handa's high-school life, so as to combat the efforts of a legitimate animation studio to make a TV show based on, well, Handa's high-school life. The Handa Army's effort to produce its own anime program is exquisitely terrible and absolutely hilarious. Since everyone has his own mental image of who Handa is as a person, it's no surprise the final amalgam is a bedeviling, stoic, inhuman sort of character that looks and acts nothing like the real Seishuu Handa.
For what it's worth, the class reunion gives readers a glance into the future lives of the manga's secondary characters. The ever militant Sawako Tennouji is running for office. Akane Tustsui is a truck driver. Junichi Aizawa is a tech scientist dabbling in artificial intelligence. And so on. It's a simple and sweet wrap-up to a funny comic about a boy who was always at the center of attention, despite never wanting to be. As such, it's perhaps fitting that a member of the Handa family make a surprise appearance toward the end to put everything into perspective.
HANDA-KUN #7 is a patchwork of short stories and reflections. The volume's pair of bonus arcs are quirky tales involving secondary characters that will either split one's sides or lead to groan-induced eye rolling. That is to say, the author's penchant for tweaking the frantic and ostentatious personalities at the heart of this manga series for even the most superfluous and drawn out side stories can reap rewards.
For example, in an uncomfortable brush with meta-fiction, the characters decide to make their own animated TV show based on Handa's high-school life, so as to combat the efforts of a legitimate animation studio to make a TV show based on, well, Handa's high-school life. The Handa Army's effort to produce its own anime program is exquisitely terrible and absolutely hilarious. Since everyone has his own mental image of who Handa is as a person, it's no surprise the final amalgam is a bedeviling, stoic, inhuman sort of character that looks and acts nothing like the real Seishuu Handa.
For what it's worth, the class reunion gives readers a glance into the future lives of the manga's secondary characters. The ever militant Sawako Tennouji is running for office. Akane Tustsui is a truck driver. Junichi Aizawa is a tech scientist dabbling in artificial intelligence. And so on. It's a simple and sweet wrap-up to a funny comic about a boy who was always at the center of attention, despite never wanting to be. As such, it's perhaps fitting that a member of the Handa family make a surprise appearance toward the end to put everything into perspective.
November 28, 2019
Series Review
(Review of volume 1)
I noted in my review of the first volume that this is purely a comedy of errors: Handa-kun thinks everyone hates him, all his classmates idolize him and try to keep their distance/try to relieve him from duties, and those combine to somehow reinforce Handa's anxiety. The first volume is a good litmus test: if you think it's funny, you'll enjoy the rest of the series. If you get tired of the gag, the series isn't gonna change.
In fact, through the next 6 volumes, Handa gets put in increasingly odd situations and the misunderstandings just ratchet up: a palm reader accurately reads Handa's future, think it will embarrass him, and fudges what she tells his classmates; Handa understands this as doom; a manga club makes a Handa manga while he sees some discarded sketches in an unflattering light; a rival school with their own "king and entourage" equivalents see Handa and his army as competition while Handa is unaware, and more.
It's just...silly, pure fun. The gymnastics any given story has to go through in order to meet its two requirements--that Handa end up thinking everyone hates him, while every other witness comes away thinking Handa is great, magnanimous, or wise.
The story goes through volume 6, and volume 7 is just a collection of one-shot stories from various points within the narrative, along with a final, future "where are they now" story.
I still haven't read Barakamon, a series in which a grown-up Handa features (and which was published first), so I can promise that the series makes by itself. It's just a fun, silly series, perfect for light reading and a feel-good time.
(Review of volume 1)
I noted in my review of the first volume that this is purely a comedy of errors: Handa-kun thinks everyone hates him, all his classmates idolize him and try to keep their distance/try to relieve him from duties, and those combine to somehow reinforce Handa's anxiety. The first volume is a good litmus test: if you think it's funny, you'll enjoy the rest of the series. If you get tired of the gag, the series isn't gonna change.
In fact, through the next 6 volumes, Handa gets put in increasingly odd situations and the misunderstandings just ratchet up: a palm reader accurately reads Handa's future, think it will embarrass him, and fudges what she tells his classmates; Handa understands this as doom; a manga club makes a Handa manga while he sees some discarded sketches in an unflattering light; a rival school with their own "king and entourage" equivalents see Handa and his army as competition while Handa is unaware, and more.
It's just...silly, pure fun. The gymnastics any given story has to go through in order to meet its two requirements--that Handa end up thinking everyone hates him, while every other witness comes away thinking Handa is great, magnanimous, or wise.
The story goes through volume 6, and volume 7 is just a collection of one-shot stories from various points within the narrative, along with a final, future "where are they now" story.
I still haven't read Barakamon, a series in which a grown-up Handa features (and which was published first), so I can promise that the series makes by itself. It's just a fun, silly series, perfect for light reading and a feel-good time.
March 24, 2024
This volume is bonus extras following the end of the series in the previous volume with some previously uncollected material, author comments, pre/post anime meta stories familiar to those that saw the anime, and a few side stories like a class reunion set parallel to the events in Barakamon and the story of the student that sits in front of Handa in class.
Entirely optional, it was a fun final farewell to the characters.
Entirely optional, it was a fun final farewell to the characters.
February 7, 2019
3.5, I think I should’ve read the rest of the series before reading this conclusion, but I was so excited when I saw it in the library I had to grab it. I recognize the characters at least and it gave me happy feelings even if I was probably missing some stuff.
November 11, 2017
Definitely going to read Barakamon when I have the time.
December 4, 2017
Good volume. That cover.
March 24, 2018
A fun, bonus volume. This book is comprised of short stories that don’t appear in the main story arc.
April 6, 2018
I chuckled here and there but it was a throwaway
June 9, 2019
The perfect ending to a perfect, little, fun spin-off prequel series TTuTT
Apparently, the author herself is a victim to the Handa Syndrome ig lol
Though he's exceptionally lovable oof what to say
Apparently, the author herself is a victim to the Handa Syndrome ig lol
Though he's exceptionally lovable oof what to say
November 5, 2019
Cute, but didn't help me understand the point of this whole series.
March 25, 2023
I speed read the entire series in a day and thoroughly enjoyed myself. A funny and cute series that I recommend for anyone who wants to have a little laugh!
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