This is a gripping thriller. The story has psychological, sci-fi, medical, and youkai(Japanese sprits) elements.
I read it in one go. There is a LOT of texts, and if you want to understand the story you’ll have to read carefully. Or else it won’t be fun.
Story 9/10
There is a woman who is pregnant since 20months, a doctor who disappeared from a locked room and missing babies from a hospital.
These mysteries are interconnected, and we unravel them with our 2 protagonists— Chuuzenji(librarian and wisdom aficionado) and Sekiguchi(writer).
Over the chapters the story became unreliable and I was fearing that the
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: The Summer of the Ubume Japanese: 姑獲鳥の夏 InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 4
Chapters: 10
Status: Finished
Published: Jan 30, 2013 to Dec 10, 2014
Theme:
Psychological
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
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Aug 31, 2021
The art was great, it often added to the beauty or "ugliness" of subjects/ characters. The backgrounds and buildings are very detailed, so you can get a strong sense of "place".
This work covers topics in science, japanese mythology, phycology, and more. Reading this series was very entertaining (once you get past the first chapter), and the developments (with plot, characters, etc) are explained or implied. Personally I don't fully agree with what was expressed or the logic behind some things, but I feel like understanding the thoughts behind these things was interesting in themselves. A good read if you're bored, like theorizing about mysteries, ... |
