A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Vol. 6

(熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる / A tropical fish yearns for snow. #6)

Makoto Hagino

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Sometimes you find what you yearn for…

When her dad gets a job overseas, Konatsu Amano has to leave the Tokyo life she’s always known and relocate to a small seaside town to stay with her aunt. The move also means starting a new school surrounded by complete strangers, and it’s a lot to handle for a girl who has trouble with change. But on her first day in her new town, Kon ...more

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Published February 9th 2021 by VIZ Media LLC (first published December 27th 2019)

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Feb 20, 2021 Rebecca rated it really liked it

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Whether or not you read this as yuri (and I do think it is), Konatsu and Koyuki's relationship is starting to head into dangerous territory. One girl is trying to break out of her shell, but the other isn't sure that she's comfortable with that - because that means that she'll have to share the one person she's truly bonded with since her move. Co-dependency isn't healthy no matter what the relationship, and this could be the moment that shapes the girls' relationship going forward - whether the ...more

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Feb 12, 2021 Mark Evans rated it really liked it · review of another edition

With Kaede and Koyuki getting closer, where does that leave Konatsu? Well, at a distance, as it turns out, both physically and emotionally. As the girls start to drift apart, neither of them is particularly happy, but sometimes the most obvious fixes are the hardest to pull off...

We won’t be putting this up as the feel-good book of the week, that’s for sure. I don’t know that I have read anything this downbeat in a while, as everybody just keeps making themselves more miserable. The art is on fi With Kaede and Koyuki getting closer, where does that leave Konatsu? Well, at a distance, as it turns out, both physically and emotionally. As the girls start to drift apart, neither of them is particularly happy, but sometimes the most obvious fixes are the hardest to pull off...

We won’t be putting this up as the feel-good book of the week, that’s for sure. I don’t know that I have read anything this downbeat in a while, as everybody just keeps making themselves more miserable. The art is on fire throughout, at least, illustrating the isolation and deepening distance, not to mention the general misery.

Konatsu, in particular, is going through the ringer this time out. By the time she sees Kaede and Koyuki palling around it’s way too late for Koyuki to maybe mention that fact to Konatsu. This whole section captures that awkward moment of ‘we’re best friends and now suddenly we aren’t’ that defines many a broken friendship to a tee.

And then it just keeps going. Kaede’s trying her best to actually bring our leads together, yet her efforts are almost making things worse because she’s kind of including Koyuki’s supposed best friend in this new little trio instead, which has to sting. Konatsu’s classroom scenes, especially when classes change, are all melancholy as heck.

For her part, Koyuki is just so guarded that she’s definitely making things worse. Besides being so open with somebody like Kaede, she makes an attempt with her class and while you might laugh at what occurs due to the difference in societal norms, that whole sequence just oozes with the way Koyuki ends up feeling awkward.

You’d think the way Konatsu steps in would mark the turning point and all would be well, but this book just goes to show that there are some problems you can’t wrap up in a single volume of a manga. Certainly not when the only person Koyuki seemingly won’t open up to is Konatsu herself.

At the end, I’d argue that things are even worse than when they started. Koyuki means well, but Konatsu has been utterly depressed this whole time and the former’s solution is so wrong-headed it’s painful. Kaede even warns her that she’s not considering Konatsu’s feelings, but it falls on deaf ears.

There’s a lot of frog and salamander imagery for you to digest, like a LOT, so people doing essays on symbolism for school file that one away just in case. This book’s taking an interesting look at how friendships decay with minimal effort, how communication not actually communicated is entirely ineffectual (go figure), and what defines being alone versus being lonely.

The latter’s really the meat of this. It turns out Konatsu is the one who really doesn’t want things to change and is fine just being Koyuki’s special friend. As Koyuki opens up to others, Konatsu’s afraid that she’ll lose that bond. There’s also the obvious irony that this fear is partly what’s pushing them both apart.

I’d say the downside is... no yuri... but this series has never really had any and the author’s continued dance around what this story even is makes me just want to shrug and not care. It’s fine without it. If they fall in love, fine, if they just stay ill-defined best friends, that works too. The characters and story are strong enough just as they are.

4 stars. There’s a lot to make a thoughtful meal of here and it’s sure not the least emotionally painful thing I’ve read lately but it resonates. It takes a lot to fix a friendship where two people are only talking to themselves and not one another, so it’s now a painful wait to see how it gets resolved. ...more

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Jan 29, 2021 Andee rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Thank you to Edelweiss and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Makoto Hagino is back with the next English-translated edition of a Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow. In the last edition, we followed Honami more closely and her emotions. In this book, we took the opposite route and followed Amano. Amano has seen Honami spending time with Kaede and it makes her nervous. When she once had Honami all to herself, she now realizes ...more

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Feb 24, 2021 blkandsapphicreads rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: manga-2021

This is the saddest volume so far and I can’t believe I have to wait 3 months for volume 7. This talks about being lonely even if you’re not alone and a connection between people due to loneliness like man this is SAD.

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