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Himizu, we could quite fairly say, is a mature slice-of-life manga but with a dark setting and focusing more on the evils of society, rather than the flowery elements that a lot of people are privileged to have.

It follows the story of Sumida Yuuichi, a teenager boy who was bestowed by the worst of parents, which in turn made him want to grow up to be a good, decent person without much ambition in life but just to achieve the seemingly easiest task of being someone who wouldn’t ever harm anybody. All he ever wished to do was lazily spend out his life like ... a Himizu, a mole at his small home with his small boat house. But life isn’t that easy, and neither is experiencing a trauma of having bad parents. Sometimes, it’s hard to overcome your demons and people end up doing things that they never would have imagined they would.

But when such a thing actually happens, what do you actually do? How do you make up for the sin that you committed? How do you quieten the noises screeching at the back of your head? How do you simply go on with your life like nothing happened? Do you commit more sins that are favourly good for some people to justify your sin? Or do you face it? Or do you simply just choose to silence the noises the easiest way?
Himizu explores just these questions through the life of a teenage boy and the connections he has had with people. While some works are about character development, Himizu rather presents you with the cold truth of existence and explores what goes on in the mind of one such soul.