A Girl on the Shore - Vol. 2 Ch. 20

[MangaDex]

 

[uchi]

So uh...

Spoiler

The dude beats up his older bro's shitbag bullies, gets caught and presumably gets a BAD END. Koume doesn't mature mentally at all and continues to be a shitty person. All in all misery porn for everyone involved! Except for maybe Keiko who got a chance to go out with the star baseball player loser for a while before dumping him. Decent depression porn for those who look for that sort of thing.

 

[Mitcha]

Isobe was a minor when he beat up those thugs. I don't think he would be punish much.

 

[queazy03]

Damn, all that amazing buildup for either the ending where they get together or he commits suicide, complete with Tsunami at the climax to mirror Sato's intensity (and presumably Isobe's intensity, him erasing his computer = erasing his history in preparation for suicide)
... and then out of nowhere they don't do EITHER of these endings and go off on another path! THAT was a big let down! Like seeing a huge firework being built that never goes off.

But I get it. Two other users have pointed out the narration's style and it fits perfectly. Life is like the sea, the waves always bringing up a mix of people, emotions, situations that would normally never meet. Then the waves pull back, and what was mixed now gets separated, and new different mixtures are made when the next wave comes in (like the mixes Sato made with Masami, then Isobe, then Otsu).
The artist was slick with the panels showing the ebb & flow of the wave going in/ocean, then a person or something, then a wave going out/ocean again. Later on you'll see this same ebb & flow happening every other panel in the same fashion for other besides waves (like frame of Sato's confession letter, then a frame of Isobe, then back to Sato's letter).

And... This big let down was all done on purpose!! The "waves" and panels may bring together some interesting mixtures like a hat blown by the wind, a blown out firework, or Sato+Isobe. You'll never know what you'll find (brought together by the sea) , but if you don't have any expectation then you won't get disappointed by what you'll find... The same way I was disappointed in the resolution of Sato+Isobe, but had I come in on an "earlier wave" the story would've been disappointed in would've been about Sato+Masaki.

Damn clever writing. The disappointment was an intended feature, not a mistake.

 

[Natureboy]

I like that he was suffering, in part, on behalf of his brother. Once he finally lets that go, he seems so much younger. That part seems realistic.

 

[goodlort]

Pain

 

[IiIica]

this manga is so pretty, i think that this is a full bag, the hentai parts and everything

 

[Senshougahara]

You shouldn't get your hopes high when you read Inio Asano's work, still good ending tho.

 

[jorreez]

After seeing Punpun, I pretty much knew what was going to happen. Neither sides were resolved, and leaves the audience an "obscure" ending. But I think that's what I like about his works.

"If you don't have expectations, you're unlikely to be disappointed"

 

[noniwa]

You know I don't think they got such a bad ending all together, maybe I'm mistaken though. Isobe will probs be fine since he's a minor, Koume seems alright, baseball guy is chilling. I don't really understand what the last line means in the context of the whole story though.

 

[Nrtoxop]

I mean its alright overrated as fuck in my opinion

 

[fujikawakenji]

3/10 this was shit. Good art tho

 

[L587]

Art was good, the characters too, story unfortunately very weak and the sex scenes were sometimes too much for me lol, you can almost label this work here as a h-manga. It was just about okay, but not more.

 

[Schernobyl]

I liked the ending it definitely fits the story. Isobe assuming the investigation didn't stop him as a minor is going after the girl he met by the sea. He isn't manipulated by Koume anymore. Koume is in a relayionship, she realizes life is like the sea that she always went to with no expectations. The baseball player is now a coach. Each person went on a unexpected path, just like the items found by the sea. The sex scenes were a little off putting due to the age of the characters though.

 

[Menace23]

I liked the ending it definitely fits the story. Isobe assuming the investigation didn't stop him as a minor is going after the girl he met by the sea. He isn't manipulated by Koume anymore. Koume is in a relayionship, she realizes life is like the sea that she always went to with no expectations. The baseball player is now a coach. Each person went on a unexpected path, just like the items found by the sea. The sex scenes were a little off putting due to the age of the characters though.

Yea i'm with you on everything you said. Wish I read this while I was still in HS i had it on my backlog since then.

 

[Astrofelico]

Well thats underwhelming