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| Great One-Shot. 8/10. Beautiful straightforward adaption of maturity from the main characters by putting them in a dire situation. I love it when stories are so well established in the tone of each character's thoughts, insecurities and goals to then see how their relationship develops and the story finalizes with a climax that greatly impacts the story to its message with an awesome ending. The story presents the negativity of judgement, and how it affects the two protagonists of the story, Kimimura and Watari. Our male protagonist, Kimimura has the power to teleport with a specific strength from wind, while Watari is a misunderstood former one-time delinquent who skips school working part-time to support her single mother. In the beginning, Kimikura downplays his ability to Watari after they first meet when he teleports in front of her to his surprise face to face, while she responds to his ability being cool with confidence. Later, as rumors of her smelling like cigarettes and being a delinquent who skips school, just like he was claimed to lie of his power out of jealousy, she disregards her feelings to those baseless rumors, just like he did. One day, when he meets her at her job, cleaning the streets outside, harshly condemning a drunk old man for making a mess that she'll have to clean, he threatens her, reading her nametag and lying to the school that she beat him up and stole her money. Which she continues to not care about, because as she says "The way the people in this world form their opinions is not through facts, but through image. So... Truth don't matter." Until one day, she's held hostage by that man on top of stairs outside her work. As Kimikura was wondering his reason to her question of why he cares about her, after the moment of saving her by teleporting into their spot and taking the broken glass away from the man, he realizes that as he saw her in himself, he wants them to be better by changing and not accepting rumors, all meanwhile clearing the rumors to the crowd, telling her to not give up, to which she later cries and thanks him for saving her. As tough and confident as she seemed, the sudden display of her with tears while she's being hostage with the crowd judging her off rumors while she's fearing for her life was a great impactful scene. Seeing them each happy, improving with that final metaphor was nice. Beautiful. ... I look forward to this Mangaka's next works, and hope his other One-Shots that I'm seeing on Twitter get translated soon. |