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In other hands this might be a melodramatic story with largely writ emotions, passionate sex, and lessons to be learned. Their relationship becomes romantic, but it is disturbed by Masami’s past relationship with a man, Kayako’s jealous friend, and the passing of time which changes hopes and dreams into new realities and reimagined dreams. Kayako adulates Masami, and slowly the two girls become very close friends.

One day, Kayako Kirishima, a Japanese high school student, makes the acquaintance of Masami Endo, a classmate who was recently suspended from school. Taniguchi’s Walking Man delighted with its quiet meanderings of daily life and realistic images in Blue Kiriko Nananan tells a low key drama about friendship, growing up, and the passage of time that stands out for its subtlety of storytelling, stark artwork, and harshly composed panels.

If you aren’t reading Fanfare/Ponent Mon’s books then you are missing some of the best manga being published in English. Translated by Ryosuke Okawa and Elizabeth Tiernan.