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Solanin
Solanin.jpg
ソラニン
(Soranin)
Genre Romance, Music, Slice of life story
Manga
Author Inio Asano
Publisher Shogakukan
English publisher United States Canada Viz Media
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Weekly Young Sunday
Original run 2005 – 2006
Volumes 2
Live-action film
Director Takahiro Miki
Released 2010
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Solanin (ソラニン Soranin?) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialised in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2005 to 2006. The manga is licensed and published in English by Viz Media, in French by Kana and in Taiwanese by Taiwan Tohan. The manga was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan.

The manga is to be made into a live-action film. It will star Aoi Miyazaki as the female protagonist.[1]

Contents

Manga

Solanin is written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialised in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2005 to 2006.[1] Shogakukan published the manga's two tankōbon between December 5, 2005 and May 2, 2006.[2][3] The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media,[4] which released the manga as an one-shot on October 21, 2008.[5] The manga is licensed in France by Kana,[6] and in Taiwan by Taiwan Tohan, which released the manga's two tankōbon volumes between June 23, 2005 and September 24, 2006.[7][8]

Plot

Meiko and Taneda graduated from university for 2 years. Having no really goals or decision, they step into the society clueless. Meiko work as a Office Lady to pay off rent from her apartment, while Taneda work as a illustrator in a press company just to share Meiko's burden for the rent. While Taneda often meets up with his bandmates from their University days to jam, he still find something is missing. His bandmates know what was it: they need to step out, promote themselves and let their songs be heard to a larger crowd, which is their dream since their first meeting in their university's "Pop Music Club". While they decide to break the rhythm of their "normal" graduate lives, its when two important things collide with each other: Meiko decides to quit her job, and Taneda decides to devote time to write his first proper song for his band. With such uncertainties and unpredictability, how would their lives lead to? And just when both Meiko and Taneda decides to let go of all worries and embrace such uncertainties and unpredictability, one tragedy happens, and changed both theirs' and their friends' lives.

Reception

Solanin was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan.[9] It was nominated for the 2009 Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.[10] About.com's Deb Aoki lists Solanin as the best new one-shot manga of 2008 along with Disappearance Diary.[11] Pop Culture Shock's Katherine Dacey criticises the manga's backgrounds, saying they look "like dioramas or collages".[12] Deb Aoki from About.com commends the manga for capturing "the angst and uncertainty of a young adult's life with humor and heart."[13] Mania.com's Greg Hackmann commends the author for her attention to detail "especially when it comes to the manga's many cramped urban settings".[14] Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County's Lawerence T. comments on the manga "accepting what life has to offer".[15]

References

  1. ^ a b "Solanin Manga Made into Film with Nana's Aoi Miyazaki (Updated)". Anime News Network. 2009-04-08. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-04-08/solanin-manga-made-into-film-with-nana-aoi-miyazaki. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  2. ^ "ソラニン / 1" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=4091533213. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  3. ^ "ソラニン / 2" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=4091510760. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  4. ^ "Viz to Offer Asano's Solanin, Obata's We Were There (Updated)". Anime News Network. 2008-02-18. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-18/viz-to-offer-asano-solanin-obata-we-were-there. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  5. ^ "Solanin". Viz Media. http://www.viz.com/products/products.php?product_id=7695. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  6. ^ "Solanin" (in French). Kana. http://www.madein.mangakana.com/Series.cfm?Query_Code=SOL. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  7. ^ "Solanin 1" (in Chinese). Taiwan Tohan. http://www.tohan.com.tw/comic_2-3?id=670. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
  8. ^ "Solanin 2（完）" (in Chinese). Taiwan Tohan. http://www.tohan.com.tw/comic_2-3?id=45. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
  9. ^ "Manga Nominated for 2009 Eisner Awards". Anime News Network. 2009-04-07. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-04-07/manga-nominated-for-2009-eisner-awards. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  10. ^ "Red Colored Elegy, Solanin, Witchblade Get Harvey Nods". Anime News Network. 2009-06-30. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-06-30/red-colored-elegy-solanin-witchblade-get-harvey-nods. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
  11. ^ Aoki, Deb. "2008 Best New Manga". About.com. http://manga.about.com/od/recommendedreading/tp/2008BestNewManga.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
  12. ^ Dacey, Katherine (November 19, 2008). "Solanin". Pop Culture Shock. http://www.popcultureshock.com/manga/index.php/reviews/manga-reviews/solanin/. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  13. ^ Aoki, Deb. "Solanin". About.com. http://manga.about.com/od/vizmedia/gr/Solanin.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  14. ^ Hackmann, Greg (December 15, 2008). "Solanin". Mania.com. http://www.mania.com/solanin_article_110575.html. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  15. ^ T, Lawerence. "Solanin". Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. http://www.plcmc.org/readers_club/reviews/tresults.asp?id=5362. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 

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