Kotonoba Drive
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Japanese: コトノバドライブ


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 4
Chapters: 35
Status: Finished
Published: Jan 25, 2014 to Jan 25, 2017
Genre: Slice of Life Slice of Life
Theme: Iyashikei Iyashikei
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Afternoon
Authors: Ashinano, Hitoshi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.211 (scored by 12181,218 users)
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Ranked: #58802
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Popularity: #5116
Members: 4,210
Favorites: 30

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Suu-chan lives a laid back life, alternating her time between her part-time job and aimlessly riding on her bike. Occasionally she encounters mysterious scenery that engulfs her.

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2 Mixed Feelings
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Oct 12, 2023
jeeps
Recommended
"Relaxing your speed can open up mysterious gaps, even in familiar places"

tldr: really easy/relaxed manga to read; no complex storyline, just everyday slice of life. its short, sadly. you need to slow down and take in every page/drawing to enjoy this manga.

As I await Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Omnibus 4 physical book next year (2024), with a new e-reader for night reading (Kobo Libra 2), I decided to choose this manga, since its the same author. I really wanted more from the author. I loved this person's take on seeing beauty in everyday life.

Suu-chan, the main character, does everyday life in the story, from vistiting ...
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Sep 29, 2017
Akunmehchai
Recommended
Preliminary (29/35 eps)
Kotonoba Drive is the latest series from Hitoshi Ashinano, writer of the highly acclaimed Slice of life manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. Despite that, it surprisingly doesn’t have any reviews yet. Time to put that right!

In Kotonoba, we follow the laid-back everyday life of Suu, a young woman with a part time job at a spaghetti restaurant and an ability to see mysterious sights such as landscapes of the past and humanoid forms of birds and insects, but only 5 minutes at a time. Each chapter tends to focus on one of her supernatural encounters, ranging from heart-warming to melancholic to mildly creepy, but always mysterious ...
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Oct 29, 2018
JoeGar96
Mixed Feelings
Kotonaba Drive for me was a mixed bag, some chapters felt atmospheric and nostalgic, whilst others to me felt aimless with not that much point to them.

Kotonaba is about Suu chan just travelling and seeing new places, every chapter she will have a day dream, about something she see's in her everyday life, like for example driving through the night on her scooter you will have a lot of shots of the night sky her feelings and it gets re imagined to travelling through a sea of mist as one example.
It sort of takes real feelings and re imagines it to show how Suu feels, ...
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