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Manga-ka: Inio Asano
Publisher: Viz
Rating: Older Teen (16+)
Released: October 2008
Synopsis: “Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn’t 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 part of the real world.”
With its hefty size and simple, yet eye-catching, cover design, Solanin drew my eyes to it with ease sitting on the store shelf. I’d read a few things about it here and there in recent weeks throughout the blogosphere, some good, some bad, but ultimately enough that I knew this coming-of-age story was just the kind of low-key, thought-stirring piece I was looking for.
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