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Suiiki

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Waters
Japanese: 水域


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 25, 2009 to Oct 25, 2010
Genres: Drama Drama, Fantasy Fantasy
Theme: Historical Historical
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Afternoon
Authors: Urushibara, Yuki (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.681 (scored by 33963,396 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #18852
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Popularity: #2288
Members: 9,588
Favorites: 106
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Volumes: /2
Chapters: /12

Synopsis

In the midst of a blazing hot summer beset by water shortages, middle-school girl Chinami faints from heat exhaustion. Upon waking up, she finds herself in a mysterious town by a beautifully pristine river whose waters hide many secrets...

(Source: Hox)

Background

Suiiki was published in Spanish by Milky Way Ediciones from October 29, 2014 to January 28, 2015.

Characters


Reviews

Jul 11, 2011
I started reading Waters because I like the author and rivers. Used to live near a river, and once was fascinated with the way it carried away the corpses of bugs and the filth of my hands, yet never seemed to dirty its water. At the time I was very young so I didn’t understand the hydrological cycle. To me the river was an invincible, cleansing place trapped in its own world.

The story involves a family and their home village. It begins with Chinami, who lives in a present beset by heat and water shortages. She passes out and wakes up in a place ...
Feb 2, 2015
Intro:
Suiiki (Waters) is a drama that focuses on a girl named Chinami and her family’s heritage. Due to a heatwave in Japan she faints repeatedly and dreams about a mysterious Valley by a river. The story is two volumes short (~460 pages) and contains a minimal amount of supernatural elements, but so lightly that you can probably overlook it, if you're not into that.

Story:
The story is mainly told through the dream scenes and flashbacks, this might be confusing at times but seems to be necessary to let the story slowly unwrap itself to fit the big picture. Parts of the story were quite predictable, but ...
Jan 9, 2019
Suiiki presents classic Japanese themes and motifs such as confronting the past only to ultimately deciding to move on, choosing to dwell in the present and not the past, and the importance of a strong familial household in an effective and new way. The story while not starting with these themes, develops them over time as a result of the plot, and ending with a more unified family and bright future.

A take on the story (not as much a synopsis) is that Chinami is confronted by her family past in the form of dreams that she enters, usually when she falls unconscious. In the dreams ...

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