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NEWS: Solanin's Asano to End Umibe no Onna no Ko Manga




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fireaxe



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 2:30 am Reply with quote
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The 77th volume of Ohta Books' Manga Erotics F magazine revealed on Thursday that manga creator Inio Asano (Solanin) is drawing two more chapters of her Umibe no Onna no Ko (A Girl by the Seaside) manga. The manga will end in the 79th issue on January 7, 2013.

Okay maybe I'm wrong here but I always thought Inio Asano was a guy... Does anyone know for sure?
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whoisfriend



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:11 am Reply with quote
fireaxe wrote:
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The 77th volume of Ohta Books' Manga Erotics F magazine revealed on Thursday that manga creator Inio Asano (Solanin) is drawing two more chapters of her Umibe no Onna no Ko (A Girl by the Seaside) manga. The manga will end in the 79th issue on January 7, 2013.

Okay maybe I'm wrong here but I always thought Inio Asano was a guy... Does anyone know for sure?


Yup. Inio Asano is male.

Picture: http://www.comicvine.com/inio-asano/26-59694/
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chiarascuro



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:25 pm Reply with quote
Wow, that was fast. Then again most of his manga are pretty short anyway...
Though this'll probably give him more time to focus on Oyasumi Punpun then. ^^
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Myaow



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:39 pm Reply with quote
I wish that more of his works would become available in English... his art is one of a kind!
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RAmmsoldat



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:11 pm Reply with quote
Myaow wrote:
I wish that more of his works would become available in English... his art is one of a kind!


seconded, he's on my list of manga artists that get a free pass meaning his name alone will get me to buy a book.
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:12 am Reply with quote
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seconded, he's on my list of manga artists that get a free pass meaning his name alone will get me to buy a book.

I once felt the same, but later I found them more and more like a loser's whining, so I stopped following.
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ElectricDork



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:21 am Reply with quote
I was surprised at how overtly and explicitly sexual this manga is. I mean, both Solanin and What a Wonderful World have a small amount of nudity and/or sexual content, but nothing like A Girl by the Sea, in which adolescent sexuality is a primary theme. And with the characters involved being so young, I doubt Viz will ever bring this one Stateside.

But yeah, I love Asano's art and his decidedly melancholy (perhaps even pessimistic) musings on life, so I'd take whatever I could get. I wonder how well the aforementioned titles did for Viz.
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Bonham



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:31 pm Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:
I once felt the same, but later I found them more and more like a loser's whining, so I stopped following.

I haven't read A Girl by the Seaside, so I can't comment on that, but I would presume that it was Goodnight Punpun that sealed it for you? For me, everything else by Asano is excellent (aside from What a Wonderful World!, which is just a promising beginning for an artist), but Punpun is practically unreadable after the first couple volumes. It's just one scene after another of excessive self-loathing that bathes in pessimism. If a character isn't literally static "comic relief," then they're impossibly depressed. If it wasn't for the excellent Before Dawn and the End of the World, I would have thought that Asano had completely lost it.

ElectricDork wrote:
But yeah, I love Asano's art and his decidedly melancholy (perhaps even pessimistic) musings on life, so I'd take whatever I could get. I wonder how well the aforementioned titles did for Viz.

I would guess Solanin did well enough for Viz to license What a Wonderful World! As for the latter title, who knows, although it might not have sold much, as Viz has not licensed more Asano titles.
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