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Ashizuri Suizokukan
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8-gatsu no Soda-sui
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Both manga are about a little girl who lives a carefree life, and explores the expansive and surreal world around her. Soda Waters of August explores the whimsical and wondrous with a full-color children's-book style, while Ashizuri Suizokukan is more about bizarre happenings and has a more abstract and sketchy style. Example: August's walking lighthouse, and Ashizuri's shopping errand to Russia.
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Sekisei Inko
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Kurayami Dance
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Both involve a male protagonist who is struggling to understand the suddenly confusing world around them. Both are accompanied by an abstract humanoid figure visible only to themselves (Challia v. Memory) Both include themes of delving into the SELF and discovering their place in the world. Both have settings of mostly non-modern-Japan. Sekisei Inko mostly focuses on finding his identity, uncovering memories past, while Kurayami Dance is about the value and significance of life and death.
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Heads
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Shinai naru Boku e Satsui wo Komete
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Both stories involve a protagonist, originally meek and kind, who suddenly has to deal with another form of themselves, who is violent; their existence to the original "them" is intimidating and terrifying. Their alternate ego begins to take over the parts of their own life they took for granted.
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GTO
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Hammer Session!
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Both involve a protagonist with a less-than-satisfactory past being recruited by a desperate school with a class of students in need of reform. The unusual teacher works to educate and fix students' problems through their own wacky ways while dodging other adults' attempts to bring them down. Many parallels between story arcs and characters in general! Both rely on a charismatic protagonist to foil against a stiff system/world, but the stories are achieved differently. Hammer Time focuses more on compassionate swindler Hachisuka Gorou's hijinks to avoid getting caught and sent back to prison, while GTO is more about the students and about their growths, as well as an unjust school system, instead of only on Onizuka.
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Nekojiru-sou
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Kujira no Chouyaku
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Both have abstract and seemingly disconnected scenes in a surreal and dreamlike atmosphere, but each tie up to a central theme by the end. The visuals defy reality and are extremely bizarre, yet are whimsical and beautiful at the same time. Both have music made by Utollo Teshikai/Hiroshi Ogasawara (same person) which contributes greatly to their unique atmospheric characteristics.
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Hinamatsuri
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Gokudou Parasites
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Both have a similar premise of a working adult housing an abnormal person with attributes that can't be shown to others. In Hinamatsuri Nitta has to hide Hina's powers, while in Gokudou Parasite, the straight-laced female detective Mai Shintani has to house a Yakuza who has been shrunk down to the size of a mouse. Both have the same endearing sense of humor as well as a likeable cast of diverse characters.