Review: Solanin by Inio Asano
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 pay 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 a part of the real world. ” My thoughts: Inio Asano is a very acclaimed author in the manga world, so he was in my radar for a long time. I read Nijigahara Holograph by him earlier this year and enjoyed it to some extent. I had my issues with it, but all in all, it was a solid horror manga. I went into Solanin expecting the same amount of criticism of human morale and human selfishness and I sort of did get what I expected, but also sort of didn’t. Solanin is very different than Nijigahara Holograph. First,...
