Hoshi no Furu Machi
Alt Names: | ほしのふるまち The Town the Stars Fall Upon 星星的故鄉 |
Author: | Hara Hidenori |
Artist: | Hara Hidenori |
Genres: | Drama Romance School Life Seinen Slice of Life |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | "The stars that don't shine in Tokyo surely do shine in a different town..." TSUTSUMI Koutarou, who couldn't be a senior at a college-oriented high school in Tokyo, moves into Himi City, Toyama Prefecture with his relatives and spends one school year there. "I wouldn't be able to shine for the rest of my life..." He's hurt, and depressed. However, his encounter with a girl named Nagisa changes his "tomorrow" little by little. Now, HARA Hidenori begins "the sweetest 'starting-over' love story in the world"... |
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206 Comments
Great story and ending, sadly it only ever works in fiction. In real life no one's gonna wait 6 years for you but I guess thats what makes it interesting to read for a story...
It could have been a lot better. I just couldn't connect with the character: the MC being really weak-willed for most of the series and also a bit douchy when dealing with the second girl, while the main female character was really unlikable at moments. And they didn't get that much development. There were also some poor played tropes thrown here and there.
Another great work of his..
Well, I just read it again, and it was just as great a journey as the first time. Great manga, great story, fantastic characters; my only recommendation is that I'll gladly read anything Hara Hidenori writes.
Pretty good, but that ending left me wanting so badly...
Wow, what a great marathon read.
I've read this and Densha Otoko and I'd recommend that as well because this mangaka's art style is cool haha.
I particularly loved the ending of this one because I prefer bittersweet endings over fairytale ones. 5/5
I feel like this song fits the beginning of this manga perfectly
except replace the "he" with "she"
So good
http://vatoto.com/comic/_/comics/densha-otoko-net-hatsu-kakueki-teisha-no-love-story-r5162
im glad it didn't get stretched out like a few other coming of age stories...
Thanks Viscans
working on english subs for the movie??? wow, that'd be an awesome thing.
This was recently made into a live action major motion picture in Japan. I still haven't seen it with english subs though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627059/
As for the unnecessary hate on the ending, this can be a cultural/age gap thing. Expected this sort of ending coming since it was literally part of the title ("tender flashback" on top of the Stars). The entire piece can be seen as an allegory of the title, taken from the decades of literary works prior. This would be lost on most western audience, especially the younger mainstream ones.
This was packed to the brim with nostalgia, down to the sepia tone style at the beginning and end (the oval picture with the sea on the left and sand/seawall on the right), it tug at the heartstrings of people who experienced similar things in their lives. Things like this would be lost on most of the younger western generation, where friends with benefits, casual bonds, etc... are more common. I guess a similar version of it would be letting a kid read the first edition LOTR and hating it cause most of the words and meanings are lost on them. To make it worse, the author (deliberately or not) set it up that it wouldn't be weird for this to be published in the 70/80's as a futurist love-story (cell-phone). This would've been easily made into a drama a decade or so ago, hell, I wouldn't be surprised if this is going to be made into a low-budget one for the housewives' hour(s)
90% of mangas have the story ends right after highschool, which is a shame. There's more to life than highschool. More trials, tribulations, and turns too. I am sure a lot of us can write a story of our own from getting out of highschool alone.
It was a great, great story. The ending? Well, seinen stories like this just aren't always the pat, formulated, all loose ends tied up endings you get in shounen and shoujo.
Thanks VIScans.
Big thanks to VIS. While the story irritated me, there's no denying that VIS did some superhuman releasing on this series. Keep the hard work up guys, we all appreciate it.