For a film debut, Nobuhiro Doi shows his mettle as a director with aplomb the cinematography is astoundingly beautiful, with most of the scenes set around a beautiful forest close to the Aio family home. And it also makes for an even more satisfying ending, for it is not an individual, but a family that learns to cope with the loss, and look forward to the future with the knowledge that love never dies. The source material is thus richer than the average jun’ai story, for the anguish of loss is all the more poignant, and the feeling of emptiness is all the greater, for the fact that it is not an individual, but a family, suffering from the absence of a loved one. It does talk about love, but unlike other jun’ai works, its discourse on love is not limited to the love between a man and a woman it is a look into the love between a husband and a wife, between a mother and her child, and between everyone in a family.
In the end, Be With You is nothing short of being plainly, utterly without any prominent advantages and faults – that is, average.Though an example of Japanese jun’ai, Be With You takes a somewhat different tack from its better-known contemporaries. On the other hand, the plot’s not all that interesting yet not particularly faulty otherwise the art’s not very attractive but could be worse and the cast is good enough but far from great. Unlike some manga that I give similarly low scores to, Be With You has nothing particularly disgusting, offensive, or boring. Sure, they have plenty of qualities that are desirable in people, but none that interesting characters need. Unfortunately, since the story of Be With You is already quite weak, there’s really no place for the characters to shine. They’re a more-or-less generic family that exists to carry out the story efficiently there are no surprises or twists in character development. The characters are no saving grace either. The whole manga suffers because of this unfortunate happening. Unfortunately, the artist instead clutters each page with too many details and panels, a total discredit to the art. It’s the kind of art that would go best with extremely simple backgrounds and page layouts to emphasize the simplicity of the story it accompanies. The basic style is cute, but somewhat sketchy. The art certainly doesn’t help matters much. Things happen, but there’s no reason to care. It has no elements of touching romance, gripping mystery, or calm slice-of-life it’s just… there. The creators of this manga didn’t particularly try – or just failed – to make the readers feel any particular emotions when reading the story. It seems like it will be cute and heartwarming, but falls flat when it fails to give any real message or impact.
To add an extra twist, the woman doesn’t know she’s a ghost!īut no matter how interesting it may sound from the back cover, the storyline just didn’t progress very well. It’s a shame, since it really has a great concept: a young man (along with his son) meets the ghost of his wife and gets to spend a bit more time with her before she must leave him for good.
Unfortunately, the manga (originally a novel, which I have not read) failed to deliver. (Source: ANN) Background Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu was published in English as Be With You by VIZ Media under the Shojo Beat imprint on February 19, 2008.īe With You has one of the neatest premises I’ve ever heard of. But the mystery remains as to how she actually came to be there, and as Takumi eventually discovers, it is rooted in both their past and future. As he helps fill in the gaps for Mio, though, they find each other falling in love all over again. The book also says that Mio can only stay for the duration of the rainy season, and since her death Takumi has harbored doubts about whether or not she was actually happy with him, so he is reluctant to get close to her at first. To Takumi's astonishment, exactly that does happen, although the woman who seems to be Mio has lost her memory.
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Synopsis A year ago Takumi's young wife Mio died from an illness, leaving behind him, their six-year-old son Yuji, and a homemade picture book, which described her going to a planet called Archive (where people who have passed away live as long as they're remembered) but returning at the beginning of the next rainy season. Chapters: / ? * Your list is public by default.
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