Monday 18 May 2009

How to break off a bad habit?

You simply start a new one. This my dear audience, is my theory in life. And like all theories, it has no solid proof to become a fact. The reason my theory has no solid proof to become fact, is because it is a stupid theory. Actually, it's a VERY stupid theory, it's so stupid, that I've wasted four days with the strong will in the morning to 'do some hard core work' but end up at 9 o'clock in the evening still reading manga from the 'oh just one chapter won't hurt' instinct- another stupid theory.

So what do you do when you've read 50 chapter of an awsome manga that you can't put down but need to put down in order to collect some form of life energy in you? You simply start a new manga to throw off the first: BAD IDEA. You're better off sticking to the first one because now you have 2 full on Bad Ass mangas to read. Consider this an iteration that continues on for 4 days, this equals to: total watse of time.

However! (and this is where my manga pride kicks in) I love it when I come across those deep social and emotional manga that has the ability to inspire new found ambititions in one's rotten soul! I came across this manga today:
It's called Solanin, and it's drawn pretty realistically, there's no faffing about with idealistic characters, everyone is falwed and human. It's about this young woman who gets fed up with the encaging oppression of her job (but that's the same with everyone isn't it?), which is a typical office job, common in Japan. So she quits and understands that the unconstrained boredom of freedom is just as bad as the oppresion she was suffering from in her employment.

A very good read, the comedy is perfect and the drawings are pretty unique, it's targeted towards an older audience, but this is the stuff that I think manga should ultimately be about: lives of the people that read it. For people who are bored and unhappy with life I think this is the manga that works for you :)

2 comments:

  1. sounds like an interesting manga
    -melvi

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  2. It really is! you should read it, you can read it free on this link:

    www.onemanga.com/Solalin

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