Monday, May 2, 2016


The one summer is a story about Rose and windy, two girls, in their teen years. The story starts of with Rose visiting her home town for the summer and meets her child hood friend windy there. Her hometown is a relaxed place where nothing substantial happens but is good to visit. As the story progresses we see rose starting to develop a crush on a local adult guy, who works at the video store, even though he has a girlfriend, she cant help but feel attracted to him.  Since it’s a slice of life comic, it makes sense to include suspense and dram in this comic, which was well portrayed as, it did , keep me in suspense because the way it was portrayed was that the guy could have taken advantage of the young girl. But I digress, reading the comic I realized one very interesting aspect of  this comic, and it was that it was portrayed very much like a shojo manga, slice of life. And had some japanese cultural aspects mixed in it. Mayank had reconfirmed these suspicions and suggested that in many slice of life anime movies such as summer wars, most the suspenseful slice of live animes have the house iconically placed in a hill, it not always situated a top of the hill but is placed some where in the middle. I found that to be an interesting observation and took that into the account. Overall I think this comic had taken a strong stand on stranger danger sort of motto because, as a reader I did honestly feel a bit terrified for Rose and was at the edge of my seat if she would be in danger with the adult guy or not.

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