Solanin

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Asano, Inio	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

First published by Shogakukan Inc., 2006.
Book reads right to left.
"Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world" -- p. [4] of cover.

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Complex slice of life submitted by torikaebaya on February 4, 2017, 12:51pm About as complex as a slice of life manga about a band can get. As a protagonist, Taneda really has a lot of charisma and passion, but after he just wasn't cut out to grow old and mediocre. His happy go lucky girlfriend Meiko quits her day job and tries to find herself. Sadly, she doesn't succeed until after her boyfriend's suicide. I'm not sure if Meiko is ever really the protagonist, but she has the ability to pick herself up and try again. The other band members are exactly what you'd expect and are little consolation for Meiko in her loneliness. When he was alive, Taneda wouldn't let Meiko see the song he was writing and so she never really listened to "Solanin" until the band's demo cd was sent back to her in a rejection letter after Taneda's death. Meiko decides to keep the band together and stands in for guitarist and singer even though she's never played before and is scared of the spotlight. Can Meiko put her life back together and learn to sing and play guitar in one month's time? A rallying cry to the reader to find what you loves and never stop chasing your dream.