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[MangaDex]

 

[teriguu]

Furikuri?

 

[kah0922]

It's not as good as the anime, not by a long shot, but still entertaining nonetheless.

 

[bluxaroo]

Nobody else draws like Ueda Hajime. Love this dude.

 

[siegheil]

I don't understand.

 

[greyhud90]

this is like the invisible dragon of mangas lol
did mangaka let her 5y/o do the story?

 

[IJustMadeThisToComment]

I'm just saying,if you plan to read this its very different from the anime.
Like really different. Like this could be an alternate story different.
But its still one hell of a drug trip,just not as deep or complex as the anime.

For a weird analogy.
Think of the anime as a great burger made by someone close to you,it tastes very delicious & you'll never forget the taste of it.
Now the manga is the same also a burger except it tastes different somehow,the same person made it,used the same ingredients but it still taste different.
Either way you enjoyed both burgers,just to a different extent.

 

[TalionRarshak]

Mamimi did nothing wrong

 

[leusee]

Spoiler

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[10101101010]

prefer to anime

 

[TicketyBoo]

In my opinion it might in all honesty be better than the anime, it takes a lot of time to flesh out side characters more, and has a lot more content than the anime. It's lost the clean execution of allegories found in "swinging the bat", sparkling drinks, and no longer prominently features guitars, but it has spades of new things added such as stronger world-building, and a completely different ending which is much more ambiguous than the anime's. I'd also say some scenes in the anime get a bit too cluttered and disorienting which is the point of such scenes but I feel the manga executes that disorientation and suspense perfectly whilst making what occurs much clearer at the same time, such as the incident between Naota and his dad, not gonna spoil but those who have read know what I'm talking about.
I want to be clear I'm not saying the anime is bad, it's still phenomenal and one of my favourite shows of all time, but the manga is incredible in it's own ways, both have things they do better than the other and I recommend consuming both.
(oh yeah the manga feels kinda homophobic at times but I'm not sure if that's just early 2000s humour or genuine discrimination, either way it isn't that prominent and doesn't significantly harm the story in the slightest, if you're starting it just be ready for that though)

 

[TicketyBoo]

It's not as good as the anime, not by a long shot, but still entertaining nonetheless.

get outta here with your ai pfp ;-;

 

[TicketyBoo]

I'm just saying,if you plan to read this its very different from the anime.
Like really different. Like this could be an alternate story different.
But its still one hell of a drug trip,just not as deep or complex as the anime.

For a weird analogy.
Think of the anime as a great burger made by someone close to you,it tastes very delicious & you'll never forget the taste of it.
Now the manga is the same also a burger except it tastes different somehow,the same person made it,used the same ingredients but it still taste different.
Either way you enjoyed both burgers,just to a different extent.

I disagree that it's not as deep or complex as the anime, but the anime does execute some aspects in a more in depth manner, same goes both ways though.

 

[bogmancaveguy]

Despite it being such a trip and far more ambiguous in its symbolism, I found it to be actually more down to earth, in some ways (e.g. the flashback from grandpa's childhood or the scene with Naota and Haruko in the kitchen come to mind). Plus it has a grittier tone in general and I liked it for that.

For some reason the scene where Canti comforts Naota in the hallway when Mamimi and Ninamori are at his house kind of gripped me emotionally. "All I ever wanted to do was build plastic models. And now I have no place to build them" like he can feel that there's no place for him to be a child. In his fucked up world. And the only ones who can offer him comfort are a robot that's supposed to be like a stand-in for his adult self/brother(?) and his grandpa (kind of) who was even more messed up as a kid.

I don't mind being led around to nowhere in particular in a story, wandering. And this one has a lot of that, which I enjoyed.