Suzuka

• Story: Seo Kouji
• Drawing: Seo Kouji
• Editor: Del Rey
• Japanese Editor: Kodansha
• Genre: Romantic, Shonen, Sport, Ecchi
• Tankōbon Number: 18
• Year:

Did you like the manga I''S, Video Girl Ai, 100% Strawberry...??

If the answer is yes, you mustn't do yourselves to escape Suzuka, a title that will know surprise  you for its originality narrative and for the quality and intensity of the story.

in Suzuka happens the directly oppose: here the protagonist takes conscience of himself since immediately, and in the first volumes he convinced to be reciprocated he propose himself….with a result that is all to read

The main difference in comparison to the titles above mentioned is that, if in I''S and 100% Strawberry the protagonist is a candid, but so laconic and  insecure of himself too much that he doesn't realize that their feelings are reciprocated, neither he is able to notice those of all other beautiful co-stars - more o less shameless that they are - really in the his irresponsibility there is the motor of events, in Suzuka happens the exactly oppose: here the protagonist takes conscience of himself since immediately, and in the first volumes he convinced to be reciprocated he propose himself... with a result that is all to read, that will give the start to all the future events and at the growth of the protagonist.

Yamato Akitsuki who has registered himself in a high school of Tokyo, leaves his born place that is in the rural zone of Hiroshima to move himself Japanese metropolis.

Just he has arrived he decides to visit his new school and there he assists at unexpected scene:

a goddess, a magnificent girl, who is trying to jump the stick of  high jump, Asahina Suzuka...and his heart cannot do without to throb. He not succeeding to forget  that girl so pretty, arrives late at the appointment in his  new flat. Since that day forward, Yamato will stay from his aunt who manages a public bathroom-dormitory exclusively feminine! He will be the only male who lives there and, in return he will have to help working part-time, performing the bathroom's cleaning.

Immediately he is obliged to accomplish at his tasks, so, while he cleans the bathtubs, some female university students in clothes decidedly briefs. The daughter of the owner, Miho, cousin and kohai of Yamato, she soon advises that the more sexy girl between the two female students that he has seen is much dangerous for a boy as he, in fact the beautiful girl has the habit to go an appointment with a boy to get money... and, as by fame, she doesn't lose time and she puts the hand of the "poor boy" on her breast asking money. In the tentative to help him Miho pushes away Yamato who falls with the other girl in a embarrassing position. The blind Chance wants that in that moment Suzuka arrives and seem that also she lives in the dormitory. The fortune isn't in the side of the boy: it isn't the best way to know the girl who he likes.

Disconsolate, the poor devil returns in his room. There he discovers a crack on the deep and he decides to control the situation. In this action the room divider falls under his weight so Akitsuki-kun finishes in the near room, that randomly is that of his "goddess". In spite of all, the situation takes a positive fold and Yamato knows Suzuka, discovering that she is a champion of the athletic school team and she has the his same years old.

Hearing to say about sport, he tells the his childhood and his tests in each disciplines in the good time, with not serious way, leaving them at the first difficulty with the simple "sorry, but I like it anymore". This attitude irritates the girl who bangs he out of room shouting that she hates the superficial boys.

So Suzuka, to placate herself, decides to do a sauna. Among various streams she starts to show her real character, in fact she suffers the pressure for the results, the fact is that everyone see her as "the top one in the high jump discipline". Thinking that losing weight about some kilos her elevation should have had benefit, but she exaggerates and she doesn't realize that she is there since too much time, losing the senses.Yamato succeeds to intervene, saving her. When she recuperates, initially she maintains the high tone which before they had leave themselves, so she reproaches for his stupidity because he has destroyed the sauna's door, instead to use the keys, but she discovers that also a simpleton can have the words that can console thanks of his simple and positive attitude that succeeds to diminish each problem.

Yamato will be for Suzuka as a window on a world, on a life more suitable to teenagers age, on the life heartedness on a life, that beyond the obligations, has also the smiles and the simple fun.

When starts the schools , randomly, they are in the same class and with they there are two figures of Akitsuki-kun childohood: Yasanobu , a boy who when he was a child he played ad he was very  treacherous, who using always  Akitsuki-kun as shield for his pranks, and Sakurai Honoka tha girl who has a secret in common with Yamato.

This manga tells about the Yamato vicissitudes and about the his love for Suzuka, about his attempts to conquest her and about sport....in fact, to stay at her side, the boy will be willing, for the first time, to take in the seriously way something that implies engagement registering himself to athletic club... Will it be  the first step for his ripening?

Suzuka is a very well done manga. The love plots, the ambiguous situation, the protagonists and the figures that rotate around as assistants or hecklers are everyone perfectly synergistic.

The plot keep up well for all 18 volumes, without never to bore with repetitive situations, with a sensible logic connection, also implicated to a comic scenes.

The Seo Kouji's draw is clean, without graphic virtuosities, but it is perfectly succeeds to suggest the protagonists' emotions. Precise in the sketches and in the  perspectives, it doesn't never draw out of tone  in each situation.

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School report of Suzuka...

Here's the review of "Suzuka" According the Staff of Nanoda: If you're foolish enough to not agree or you REALLY want to state your opinions, go ahead and express yourself and debate with the other inmates of Nanoda! ^_^

Drawings:

• Media Voti: 4/5

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Story:

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Editing:

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Total Rating of Editors:

• Media Voti: 5/5

5

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