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“Time passed. Memories grew soft. Then an event occurred that the villagers could not so easily ignore.”

Tomie | 富江 | Waterfall Basin (1995) by Junji Itō ☆

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i fully just finished a 43 volume manga in a week and i’m so sad that it’s over…

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i fully just finished a 43 volume manga in a week and i’m so sad that it’s over…

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There isn’t a lot out there about this series, so let me add a few words of recommendation of my own:

Clover, by Tetsuhiro Hirakawa, is a shounen fighting manga first published in 2007. Nothing supernatural or superpowered about it: just a bunch of high school boys getting into fistfights, really.

You know the old premise of, ‘in this arc the main characters we care about have to go here, fight these people to achieve x objective, and then they go home and we never see any of those other guys ever again’? Pretty much every arc in Clover starts that way, and you think to yourself, ok, this is filler. No. Pretty much every new character that’s introduced is fully fleshed-out, colorful, and endearing in their own way. And just when you think their time in the spotlight is over, boom! They’re hanging out with the other main characters after school, they’re being invited to the beach arc, they’re meeting and becoming major players in other people’s introduction arcs. Every single one you end up liking will come back again and again, falling into place as one of the main cast themselves in a way that feels very natural.

Now, you may read the first few chapters and think to yourself, ‘M, what the heck are you trying to get me into? This sucks!’ Trust me on this one, it gets better and better the longer you go on. It’ll give you childhood friendship reunions, turf wars, biker gangs, alliances between almost-strangers in the face of greater evils, and just when you think it couldn’t possibly get any better? They hit you with the fighting tournament. 

TLDR: if you liked Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Beelzebub, or Yu Yu Hakusho, you’d really like Tetsuhiro Hirakawa’s Clover. I give it like 8.5 stars out of 10.

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trying so hard not to buy a volume of ‘clover’ off of mercari jp right now Σ(-᷅_-᷄๑)