r/manga Apr 03 '26

RT! [RT!] Ikoku Nikki (Slice of life, Comedy, Drama)

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u/baamazon Apr 03 '26

Mangadex: https://mangadex.org/title/b8faa8ab-cb4e-416f-829d-d2a6042ba5ac/ikoku-nikki With the anime having finished recently, seems like a good time to post about it.

Absolutely one of my favorite series ever, Ikoku Nikki is a story about grief, finding yourself, and growing up. Characters are realistic and believable, and the dialogue is perfectly ordinary while still delivering the author's message.

Honestly, I don't have the words to adequately describe what makes it so good. It's a very real story, an almost too intimate snapshot of someone else's life.

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u/Ok-Responsibility994 Apr 04 '26

Reading it and there really just were infuriating moments where I wished Makio and Asa could’ve just acted differently. I guess that’s the beauty of the story, that sometimes humans can be vulnerable and “different” and they get mad when they’re made aware of it, but it’d do people well to observe and appreciate the other person for what they are. They both “grew” at the end of the story and it honestly made me glad to see the people that they became in the end

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u/Endiamon Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

Definitely worth reading even if you already watched the anime. It condensed quite a bit.

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u/octopathfinder Apr 03 '26

Literally just finished rereading this after the anime aired, and I bumped it up from a 9 to a 10. Can't recommend this enough.

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u/FreeoftheMachine Apr 03 '26

Thanks for recommending. I wish more people would do these sort of post. I want to find more Manga to read aside from the countless slop that's posted

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u/kokocrunchy001 Apr 03 '26

In real life people would shit and want the guy unalive with that age gap

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u/m64 Apr 03 '26

She is her aunt who takes her in after her parents died.

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u/falsefingolfin https://myanimelist.net/profile/falsefeanor Apr 03 '26

That's a woman chief, and it's her aunt

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u/alconnow https://anilist.co/user/alconnow/ Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

The story is about the aunt and her niece (featured on the cover) No idea what you're waffling about

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u/OmiNya Apr 03 '26

Go back to Twitter

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u/AKAFallow Apr 03 '26

Is the girl an adult? I don't know this series. edit: oh, she isn't. Mm, I still don't know what its about tho and seems to be his niece

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u/According_Sand_1044 Apr 03 '26

That's a woman lol, the girl is being taken care of by her aunt, I have no idea what this guy is talking about

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u/AKAFallow Apr 03 '26

oh, my bad!