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あさこ #1
あさこ 1
謎の美女×11歳少年
ノスタルジック年の差ラブサスペンス。
令和元年、8月。
実家へ帰るための新幹線の中、青島将司は少年時代の淡い記憶を回顧し始める…。
平成八年、夏。
海沿いの田舎で暮らす小学5年生の少年、マサシ。
気弱な性格でいじめられっ子の彼は素性不明の美女・あさこと出会う。
彼女の大胆な行動に翻弄される中、マサシの心は大きくざわめいていき!?
『いなり、こんこん、恋いろは。』よしだもろへ最新作!
ノスタルジック年の差ラブサスペンス。
令和元年、8月。
実家へ帰るための新幹線の中、青島将司は少年時代の淡い記憶を回顧し始める…。
平成八年、夏。
海沿いの田舎で暮らす小学5年生の少年、マサシ。
気弱な性格でいじめられっ子の彼は素性不明の美女・あさこと出会う。
彼女の大胆な行動に翻弄される中、マサシの心は大きくざわめいていき!?
『いなり、こんこん、恋いろは。』よしだもろへ最新作!
160 pages, Paperback
Published May 20, 2020
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October 11, 2021
Vol.1 Chapters 1-5
[8/10]
Lovely and a little unexpected.
[8/10]
Lovely and a little unexpected.
October 4, 2021
Simple, pleasant, nostalgic. The artwork is clean and effective. They get a lot across with very few words, which I appreciate in a comic book. I find that Japanese manga often tends to crowd the artwork with too much text, so this was a nice change of pace. I found I understood almost everything in here, which was really encouraging as well. All in all, I really enjoyed this comic. Excited to read the next volume.
As with all works I read entirely in Japanese, I will now recount the entire plot as I understood it, so I can check my work later:
========== SPOILERS FOLLOW (maybe) ==========
Masashi is a middle schooler without many real friends, and the ones he has are bullies. His family keeps a boarding house, or bed and breakfast, or something. And one day Masashi finds that a beautiful woman has moved into the vacant room next to his. She’s cool and mysterious and smokes cigarettes, and naturally he falls instantly in love with her. The boyish coming-of-age stuff that follows is really well handled throughout the book.
Masashi has several run-ins with this girl, whose name we find out is Asako, and I won’t detail all of them here, but suffice it to say he’s enamored. She makes a deal with Masashi- since he’s a rare marble collector, any time he finds a rare marble and gives it to her, he can ask one question about her, as personal as he wants. He can’t wait to find marbles to give her.
There’s also a subplot where Masashi’s ‘friends’ give him a disposable camera and ask him to take a naked photo of ‘the tobacco girl,’ in exchange for friendship privileges like the use of their PlayStation. He can’t go through with it though. There’s a really touching part nearing the end, where Asako finds out that they’ve been hounding them about this and asks if they’d leave him alone if they only saw a naked picture. So she starts to lift up her shirt right in front of them, but Masashi, crying, stops her.
Later, a rumor spreads around town that this strange newcomer Asako was fleeing from Tokyo because she killed a man. It gets pretty ugly, and Masashi’s mother eventually has to ask her to leave. It all culminates with an old man attacking Masashi with a knife. We find out he’s been stalking Asako, and (I think) that’s why she left Tokyo for a while, and he’s where the rumor came from. Anyway, Asako saves Masashi and everything is fine.
But Asako eventually leaves town, and we now see Masashi in his mid-thirties. This whole story has been a framing device as he takes the train back to his hometown, reminiscing about Asako and his first love. So now he’s home, and he’s kicking around the beach near his house. And in the last panel, he sees a figure in the distance who seems to be Asako.
Loved this comic. Very nostalgic and wholesome. Can’t wait for the next volume.
As with all works I read entirely in Japanese, I will now recount the entire plot as I understood it, so I can check my work later:
========== SPOILERS FOLLOW (maybe) ==========
Masashi is a middle schooler without many real friends, and the ones he has are bullies. His family keeps a boarding house, or bed and breakfast, or something. And one day Masashi finds that a beautiful woman has moved into the vacant room next to his. She’s cool and mysterious and smokes cigarettes, and naturally he falls instantly in love with her. The boyish coming-of-age stuff that follows is really well handled throughout the book.
Masashi has several run-ins with this girl, whose name we find out is Asako, and I won’t detail all of them here, but suffice it to say he’s enamored. She makes a deal with Masashi- since he’s a rare marble collector, any time he finds a rare marble and gives it to her, he can ask one question about her, as personal as he wants. He can’t wait to find marbles to give her.
There’s also a subplot where Masashi’s ‘friends’ give him a disposable camera and ask him to take a naked photo of ‘the tobacco girl,’ in exchange for friendship privileges like the use of their PlayStation. He can’t go through with it though. There’s a really touching part nearing the end, where Asako finds out that they’ve been hounding them about this and asks if they’d leave him alone if they only saw a naked picture. So she starts to lift up her shirt right in front of them, but Masashi, crying, stops her.
Later, a rumor spreads around town that this strange newcomer Asako was fleeing from Tokyo because she killed a man. It gets pretty ugly, and Masashi’s mother eventually has to ask her to leave. It all culminates with an old man attacking Masashi with a knife. We find out he’s been stalking Asako, and (I think) that’s why she left Tokyo for a while, and he’s where the rumor came from. Anyway, Asako saves Masashi and everything is fine.
But Asako eventually leaves town, and we now see Masashi in his mid-thirties. This whole story has been a framing device as he takes the train back to his hometown, reminiscing about Asako and his first love. So now he’s home, and he’s kicking around the beach near his house. And in the last panel, he sees a figure in the distance who seems to be Asako.
Loved this comic. Very nostalgic and wholesome. Can’t wait for the next volume.
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