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Manga Talk: Sukimasuki

While it’s just a one shot series, Sukimasuki had a really interesting presentation. I have to say that, even though I liked the characters a lot, it was definitely the feelings it invoked that sealed the deal for me.

Sukimasuki is basically a story about a college student that occasionally spies on the girl that lives directly across from him. The thing about it, though, is that she also spies on him. Of course, the manga itself is much more than that.

Heisaku, the male lead, is completely enthralled with gaps. The volume opens with him explaining his love for the spaces between buildings where stuff like trash collects and how he unconsciously searches for things like cracks in the ground and common divides. As it goes on, his friends and family later make an appearance, but it’s not until the female lead comes in that things start to take off. Fumio just so happens to attend the same school Heisaku does and, eventually, the two start spending time together. Things get a bit rocky thanks in large part to Heisaku suspecting that Fumio is somehow trying to get back at him for spying on her, but that’s just the beginning of the fun.

The most amazing thing to me about Sukimasuki wasn’t the atypical drama, the art style that meshed really well with the oneshot, or even the characters that felt vivid. What impressed me the most was how well the manga stuck to a theme and ran with it. What I see in Sukimasuki is just a glimpse of relationships between the characters and just a peek at the characters themselves. Just like the gaps Heisaku are so fascinated with, I’m merely seeing a brief period in their lives and feelings at the time. It was nothing more and, more importantly, nothing less than that.


2 Responses to “Manga Talk: Sukimasuki”


  1. 1 Ab Blaster
    April 14, 2010 at 1:38 am

    Are you a new blogger?


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