Mikako-san is incredibly bittersweet.
What the story boils down to is essentially a teen drama about relationships and finding one's place in the world, but it's the author's understated and poetic way of laying it all out and conveying what the characters are feeling that makes it so special. Through out the series are sprinkled symbols meant to relate to certain characters, colors like red for Mikako and green for Midorikawa, objects like the former's tube of candy or the latter's pencils. They're used incredibly effectively the first time, but even more so the fifth, it keeps referring back to these symbols in order to show
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: みかこさん InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 7
Chapters: 221
Status: Finished
Published: Jan 29, 2009 to Oct 10, 2013
Theme:
School
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
None Authors:
Kyou, Machiko (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #46092 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #8281
Members: 2,439
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Mar 6, 2024
First of all, this is undoubtedly my favorite manga of all time. Maybe it's because of that, or maybe in spite of it, but I can never seem to properly review it. I think a lot of my relationship with this manga stems with the way it makes me feel in an abstract sense more than a story sense. The characters are wonderful in all of their flaws, they make dumb teenage decisions, and their personalities exude from the artwork and the few words that they think or speak. Midorikawa and Mikako's relationship isn't my favorite, but I still love the fact that it exists,
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Apr 18, 2019
A very sweet and refreshing story. I liked every single page of it. The art is very beautiful. The characters feel so real you almost feel like you’re there with them. I would sometimes read a chapter several times because it somehow felt different every time. It’s a very simple story yet so intriguing. Mikako is a casual high school student. Midorikawa sits next to her. They aren’t particularly fond of each other at the beginning but with time they start to develop a special bond.
The only reason I didn’t finish it in one day was because I felt it would be a waste ... |
