Ningyou no Hitoridachi - Oneshot

[halcer]

this is quite good!

 

[Flame-2-Haze]

Imagine Key Animation doing this for anime version...Oh boy...

 

[YoJimbo0321]

Really cute art style and storytelling. Would make a great short film

 

[Olkon]

Cute

 

[Metonym]

Awfully sweet.

Fun coincidence: while playing around with possible ways of rendering the doll's name, I found that it somewhat resembles crecia, Spanish for (to my understanding) has, is, or will grow up, depending on accompanying words.

 

[Sonaldo]

Mangadex needs a 15/10 rating. So good. This transcends manga. This deserves to be an actual fairy tale told to kids around the world. Thanks for the translation

 

[Trew865]

Hope the father can start to turn his life around

 

[theshet]

I thought that was incredibly sweet, any growth is a step forward.

 

[dudelookatree]

It felt like everything was leading to the new shop being built over the doll store turning out to be the tailor shop where Sola will work. And then Sola is adopted by or becomes business partners with the doll maker. I wonder why the author didn't choose to write that.

 

[dudelookatree]

Magic is real, Cilisa talks, because if she was only in Sola's imagination, she wouldn't know about the doll maker.

I like the idea of "magic is real but just happens to follow imagination rules". Cilisa only talks one-on-one to imaginative children and inebriated adults.

Toy Story is this 100%

Phineas and Ferb is also kind of like this?

 

[dudelookatree]

Page 21 is a time skip where Sola grows up and stops being able to hear Cilisa. Sola's outfit changes in her next appearance and she acts more maturely. Cilisa also can't move while Sola is watching.

 

[MangaMonger]

This was... endearing. I expected it to have heavy-handed message and a very conclusive ending, but it didn't. Instead, it had an indirect message about how children grow up, and how strong they can be.

Just speaking about my personal opinions, throughout my life I've always heard people irresponsibly talk about children needing this or that in their lives to grow up into proper adults. So it warms my heart to see a story about children raising each other and even having the maturity to have compassion for a self-centered parent.