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Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (manga)

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Alternative title:
Hiroshima - A Cidade da Calmaria (Portuguese)
Hiroshima - Nel paese dei fiori di ciliegio (Italian)
La ciudad al atardecer, El país de los cerezos (Spanish)
Le Pays des Cerisiers (French)
Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni (Japanese)
夕凪の街 桜の国 (Japanese)
夕凪之街櫻之國 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama, slice of life
Themes: historical
Plot Summary: Part 1: Set in 1955, a family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age. Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing. Parts of this story are told in flashback.
User Ratings: 103 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 42 votes (Eng:18, sub:13, dub:7, ?:1, raw:1, others:2
1 Russian
1 Italian
)
 Excellent: 28 votes (Eng:17, sub:7, raw:2, dub:1, others:1
1 Hindi
)
 Very good: 14 votes (Eng:11, sub:2, raw:1)
 Good: 11 votes (Eng:8, sub:2, others:1
1 French
)
 Decent: 3 votes (raw:1, Eng:1, dub:1)
 So-so: 2 votes (Eng:2)
 Not really good: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 132 users, rank: #656 (of 6736)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.718 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.5913, rank: #276 (of 7469)
Weighted mean: 8.666 (Excellent−), rank: #367 (of 7469) (seen all: 8.66 / seen some: 10.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.630 (Excellent−), rank: #40 (of 3489)
Number of tankoubon: 1
Number of pages: 104
Vintage: 2003-09-30 to 2004-10-20 (serialized in Weekly Manga Action)
Release dates: We have 4
Comment:
Winner of Grand Prize of 2004 [8th] Japan Media Arts Festival and Creative Award of 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
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Tezuka Cultural Awards (May 6, 2005)
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Graphic novel
    Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (GN) 2007-02-28 (from $23.07)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Fumiyo Kouno
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Futabasha
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Andy Nakatani
Naoko Amemiya

Design: Izumi Evers
Editing:
Colin Turner
Patrick Macias
Retouch: Izumi Evers
(none)
English companies
Licensed by: Last Gasp Publishing
Online Distribution: JManga
French staff
French companies
(none)
Publisher: Kana
French cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Translation: Verónica Calafell

Drafting: Alejo Valdearena
Editing: Mar Galpena
Editorial Director: Joan Navarro
Graphic Design:
José Miguel Alvarez
Luis Domínguez
Licensing: Sonoe Nanko
(none)
Spanish companies
Publisher:
Editorial KODAI (Spain; 2020)
Glénat España
Italian staff
Italian companies
Translation: Hideki Watanabe (Kappalab)
Italian cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Publisher: Waneko
Polish cast
(none)
Portuguese cast
Portuguese staff
Translation: Karen Kazumi Hayashida
(none)
Portuguese companies
Publisher: JBC
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Sharp Point Press
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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