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ropalimpia's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.5
whimpix's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Interconnected short stories, two volumes.
tora76's review against another edition
3.0
Published in the US as What a Wonderful World, this is Asano's first series, and honestly, reading it after reading his more recent stuff is kind of a disappointment. It's good, and the art is nice, but I wasn't wowed by either. I am super in love with his art and storytelling in his other works, but this is just a pale shadow of that. It's especially jarring to read at the same time as I'm reading his current series, Umibe no Onna no Ko (which I definitely recommend).
One problem I really had with this is that his characters all look the same. And like, sometimes they are the same people, because these shorts all take place in the same town and usually the main character of each story will be someone who appeared briefly in the story before, or something like that.
Anyway, I would recommend this to anyone who likes his other works, but to anyone else, I would say go read Solanin or Nijigahara Holograph or Sekai no Owari to Yoakemae first (or the aforementioned Umibe no Onna no Ko), since those are all much better.
One problem I really had with this is that his characters all look the same. And like, sometimes they are the same people, because these shorts all take place in the same town and usually the main character of each story will be someone who appeared briefly in the story before, or something like that.
Anyway, I would recommend this to anyone who likes his other works, but to anyone else, I would say go read Solanin or Nijigahara Holograph or Sekai no Owari to Yoakemae first (or the aforementioned Umibe no Onna no Ko), since those are all much better.