Experience Sand Chronicles, Vol. 4 Documented By Hinako Ashihara Provided As Text

loved this but I lost count of how many times I screamed “OH MY GOD PLEASE COMMUNICATE TO EACH OTHER!” in my head.
Still great though! In this volume, the issue of Fuji's love for Ann and Shika's feelings for Daigo finally come up.
Daigo and Ann are having relationship troubles, Fuji finally contacts Ann and several interesting things happen, This book doesn't really go beyond kissing although there is a bit of innappropriate older guys in a gentlemen's club.
They say some things and touch Ann's arm and leg, but other than that it is pretty clean of sex.
There are a couple of punches and slaps and a few curses, but nothing too terrible, I. Cried. So. much. they are so cute !!!!!!!!!!!!! volumegtno spoilers
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Pour commencer l'annéej'avais envie de me relire quelque chose que j'aime, une lecture doudou.

Alors, clairement, ce manga ne peut techniquement pas entrer dans cette catégorie réellement, parce que on parle notamment de suicide.
Mais c'est une lecture très nostalgique pour moi,
Je l'avais découvert à un moment assez compliqué pour moi, et bizarrement, j'étais tombée totalement amoureuse de l'histoire, malgré la difficulté, malgré les personnages dont je ne supporte pas forcément ce qu'ils.
elles disent/font.
Et malgré les défauts, malgré ce que moi, je n'aime pas, . .
C'est toujours un coup de coeur, Je suis toujours amoureuse.
Mon avis n'a pas changé, Je n'aime toujours pas les mêmes choses, Et j'adore toujours les mêmes choses,
Je ne peux pas le recommander à tout le monde, au vu des sujets, Mais si vous pouvez gérer les cw, n'hésitez pas !

ENG
To start the yearI wanted to reread something I like, a cuddly reading.

So, clearly, this manga cannot technically fit into this category really, because we are talking about suicide in particular.
But it's a very nostalgic read for me,
I had discovered it at a time that was quite complicated for me, and oddly, I had fallen totally in love with the story, despite the difficulty, despite the characters of whom I don't necessarily support what they say/do.

And despite the flaws, despite what I don't like, . .
It's always a crush, I'm still in love.
My opinion has not changed, I still don't like the same things, And I still love the same things,
I cannot recommend it to everyone, given the subjects, But if you can handle the cws, don't hesitate ! The nonspoiler note: I was so glad that the very large thing which happened in the first volume has come around again.


To be more specific, I am glad Ann did not just 'get over' her mother's suicide it is a huge thing, the loss of a parent, and even larger that Miwako chose to abandon her daughter.
Much of the shoujo manga that I have read would have smoothed this over by now, having some scene in which Ann 'lets go' of it and forgives her mother, but this is realistic, she is all right for a while because she has put the weight onto Daigo but slowly she is coming undone, especially as she grows older and begins to realise that other women in similar situations to her mother make different choices.
How could that not shape the value she finds in herself, to know that her mother was not willing to stay for her It is a hard thing and Ashihara writes about it with beauty and compassion and delicacy.
This volume is a mixture, You have normal teenage antics, love, sadness, anger, betrayal, and more, The volume starts of with Fuji's disappearance, He hasn't been seen in days, then weeks, then months, There's an undercurrent of worry, Then you have some innocent, fun playtime when Ann comes home for the holidays, The old group of friends get together for Christmas parties and even a failed attempt at dogsledding, It's a rare influx of levity and humor into the series,

Most of the volume focuses on Daigo and Ann's relationship, It's rocky, as most long distance relationships are, Daigo worries about how close Ann and Fuji are, Ann realizes just how much Shika likes Daigo, But most of all, we see how much Ann relies on Daigo, He masks the intense pain she has about her mother's death, "You're my snow cave. Like if there was a blizzard, . . but I was with you, I'd be all right, You comfort me. I can almost forget all the painful memories, " These are bittersweet words. It's touching how Ann cares for Daigo, But the reader also sees just how damaged she is, Daigo is merely a stopper in bottle that's about to explode,

As the volume continues, we see more cracks in the windshield, Fuji returns. Ann tries to save him, but he ends up helping her as much as she does him, The more time they spend together, the more troubled her relationship with Daigo becomes, Daigo is jealous of Fuji, But Daigo also is scared and perhaps angry about Ann's fragility, They fight more and more, It feels like their relationship is on a downward spiral,

One of the coolest thing about this manga series is the Glossary at the end of each volume.
It not only defines words, but gives cultural tidbits, For example, it explains the origin of warm, canned coffee from Japanese vending machines, Or it explains how certain phrases were translated, Some things, like jokes or proverbs, are significantly different when translated because a literal translation would make no sense, Ohhh, young love so sweet but so confusing,


Im still enjoying this series so much, I love that the characters feel so real, I truly understand why each character is doing what they are doing, This series has relatable real life situations and not just catty shojo drama, When I began reading manga which was only two months ago, I never expected to read something that was truly touching.
I thought it would all be fun and cute, This series changes my mind

completely about the type of manga I like, Sure, I enjoy reading funny manga like Special A or cute manga like Fruits Basket, but I enjoy reading manga with a realistic story line and deeper meaning much more.
Its just better that way, Thats what this series was for me and I can only hope Ill find more like it,

The artwork is a little muddier than I like, Im more partial to defined drawing, rather than the scratchy drawing so often found in shoujo manga, I think its meant to give a more dreamy quality, but I just find it a bit on the annoying side.
Since I liked this series so much, Im willing to put that complaint aside,

The character development in this series is just unreal, I didnt think manga was capable of that kind of thing, I couldnt have been more wrong in that assumption, Anns development throughout the series is heartbreaking and incredibly realistic, considering her age, She goes through so many of the screwups and indecision that comes with being a girl in her teens or early twenties.
I felt that I could relate to her throughout most of the series because I have gone through a lot of the same things.
Daigo has a tendency to be a little more hardheaded, but it definitely the more mature of the two, He makes no secret of his complete devotion to Ann, even when shes too messed up to realize whats in front of her.
Hes unwavering and therefore a more static character, However, this doesnt hurt the series, as it is about Ann growing up, not Daigo, The situation Fuji and Shika find themselves in is a little more dramatic, They too are developing characters and both do a lot of growing up, Their search for their true identities is one that gives the series a bit more intrigue, They both learn a lot they didnt know about themselves along the way,

This is certainly the best written manga Ive come across, If youre into manga, or are thinking of trying it out I highly recommend this series, Its definitely girly shoujo manga, but its got a great story, There's a lot going on in this one, but it's not my favorite so far, The ending was pretty okay, but the rest of the inbetween was just heartbreaking, Can the sands of time heal all wounds

Twelveyearold Ann and her divorced mother move from big city Tokyo to her mother's rural hometown.
As the years pass, Ann learns to trust and depend on her new friendsDaigo and aristocratic siblings Fuji and Shika.
But when Ann moves back to Tokyo to be with her father, will she be able to maintain a longdistance relationship with Daigo

Ann and Daigo's longdistance relationship is put to the test as time goes by, and they find themselves spending more and more time with their childhood friendsaristocratic brother and sister Fuji and Shikathan each other.
Is it just due to proximity or are deeper feelings at play, . An Emotional Roller coaster!

This manga series is upon one of the best that have ever been drawn.
The story is so realistic to the point where you wonder if whats going on is going to happen to you.
This is a story about a girl who falls in love with a boy, then the boy falls in love and then they think they will fall in love forever but.
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All I have to say is that this manga has LOVE, BETRAYAL, ADULTSTUFF, and DRAMATIC DRAMA!!

and I am not surprised that the author has won the th Shogakukan Manga Award for this manga and that this manga was labeled as one of the best teenage manga by the American library association read in wikipedia.