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Sunday, 08 March 2009 |
 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | DIGITAL MANGA PUBLISHING | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | AKIRA SUGANO / ETSUMI NINOMOIYA | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | JAPANESE / B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 200 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | YA | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 11/28/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 03/08/2009 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
The gently paced and heartfelt story about love, family and unrequited feelings for your one and only comes to a satisfying conclusion in the final volume of Clear Skies. Taiga and Shuu end up in a tiff, one instigated by the hot blooded eldest brother of the Obinata family. At last the unusual family learns about the past of their new brother-in-law and the eldest of the family. It’s a tale of still waters run deep. Curiously even though the manga resolves (mostly) the relationship between Shuu and Obinata, much about them is revealed through conversations that they are not involved in whatsoever. During the festival, Yuuta and Mayumi are sent off together. Yuuta, the adopted son of Shuu, learns a great deal about the youngest and oddly attractive Obinata. They have a couple of deep heart to heart conversations about their lives and their feelings. It divulges a lot about Yuuta and Shuu as well as some surprises about the feminine Mayumi. It takes more than some intense discussions between the younger characters to help these two men in love with each other. They have feelings that have remained unresolved for over six years. That’s not so easily hurdled in one feel swoop. Instead the discovery of the real relationship between Shuu and the missing eldest sister Shima catapults turmoil into their lives. Just when the family was beginning to accept him, the truth threatens to tear it all apart. With Shuu, the deeper psychological obstacles he faces are shown through Yuuta’s observations. Taiga has a choice to make as does the rest of the rambunctious family. But even if they decide to forgive Shuu, will their feelings be able to reach the ultra-introverted man? The manga remains a gentle and lovely story about what makes a family. It also deals with the importance in a family to communicate clearly and consider each other. It’s a heartwarming series. If anything, I would have liked to see it go on a little longer and find out how they overcome some of the challenges still facing them and to see how Yuuta and Mayumi’s relationship develops.
IN SUMMARY:
The manga comes to a heartwarming conclusion in this final volume. |
