A Girl on the Shore (Japanese: うみべの女の子, Hepburn: Umibe no Onnanoko) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It is about the two junior high school students who enter into a casual sex relationship....A Girl on the Shore.うみべの女の子 (Umibe no Onnanoko)Original runJuly 7, 2009 – January 7, 2013Volumes29 more rows
Isobe successfully erases himself by the end of the manga, taking on a new personality and making an ugly, wrenching break from Sato. He smiles and tells her of his plans for high school, but doesn't let her see him being taken in by the police.
213 pages213 pages. Nothing like the 600+ page works that mark the usually noted high points of his collection (Wind-Up Bird, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84).
The best part is that it is a one volume manga.
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The art made by Inio Asano is simply full of lightness, almost fragile, and the art has to be light to be beautiful. Sequences are so poethic and full of pathos. They drive you to see, to discover, and feel deep the intimacy of the characters life or actions.
Isobe is of another nature, he liked Koume but due to her lack of interest he resigns to it not going anywhere. Isobe however has a lot more going on in his life and some of it is quite dark, his constant rants about killing himself and his online discussion was really touching.
A Girl on the Shore, both original volumes here printed in one omnibus by Vertical, follows two middle school students, Keisuke Isobe and Koume Sato. Isobe is a relatively new transfer to the small seaside town where Sato and most of the other characters have grown up, and the year before the story begins he confessed his feelings for Sato.
In many ways, this is a story about two people with different forms of depression, and Asano manages to show that without overstating the matter. Isobe is coping with the aftermath of several traumatic events, one of which has lead him to believe that he won't, and shouldn't, live much longer.
Over the course of the book, Sato relies more and more on Isobe's support even as he tries to distance himself from her. Their relationship doesn't last, which is a nice change from many manga romances which dictate that your first love (r) is your destined soulmate.