Without many words

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Manga
title Without many words
Original title 不 器用 な サ イ レ ン ト
transcription Bukiyō na Sairento
country JapanJapan Japan
author Hinako Takanaga
publishing company Libre
magazine Be × Boy
First publication August 10, 2006 - 2017
expenditure 6th

Without many words ( Japanese 不 器用 な サ イ レ ン ト , Bukiyō na Sairento , dt. "Clumsy silence") is a manga series by Hinako Takanaga . It can be assigned to the Shōnen-Ai genre and has been translated into several languages, including German . The German publisher Tokyopop recommends them from the age of 15.

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The shy and withdrawn Satoru Tono is madly in love with the handsome baseball team star Keigo Tamiya. When Keigo finally confesses his love for him, Tono's lack of expression almost leads to a misunderstanding, but eventually they go out together. Tono's secretive manner, which stands in contrast to Keigo's cheerfulness, causes uncertainty between the two of them several times before Keigo Satoru learns to read and Satoru opens up to him. Their relationship survives mutual jealousy about a new student who is also Keigo's trainer and member of Satoru's art club. For Keigo, the argument with Yuji Sagara, an old friend of Satoru and a member of the student council, who is suspicious of Keigo, rejects the relationship and tries to separate them first, becomes more difficult for Keigo. Soon their private quarrel with that of the baseball team mixes with the student council, so that Satoru tries to mediate.

When Keigo and Satoru notice that the popular student president Takahito Kagami is in love with Yuji, they want to help him win Yuji over. Satoru hopes that Yuji won't bother about their relationship anymore. Satorus' mother, who is enthusiastic about love stories - and also weak in facial expressions - is at their side with some advice. This is how Kagamis Yuji confesses his love. But he doesn't trust what is notorious as a womanizer. Yuji only slowly gains confidence in Kagami when Kagami helps him during his mother's illness. But he always shies away from Kagami's intrusiveness, but also from the matter of course that his wealthy family is prosperous. When the time for graduation approaches and Yuji fears that Kagami will go abroad, he realizes that he has fallen in love with him. So he finally agrees to the relationship and also tries to go to university with Kagami. He doesn't succeed, but both universities are not far away and they want to see each other as often as possible.

As the new school year begins, Satoru and Keigo also have to worry about their future. Since Keigo wants to go to a sports university and Satoru to an art school, they hardly fear that they will have time for each other. They already have to study for the entrance exams. But nobody wants to dissuade the other from their career aspirations. They seek advice from Yuji and Kagami and can be reassured by the two that their love will survive the separation at two universities. By chance, Satoru's parents also found out about the relationship at this time. But they accept this quickly and fall in love themselves again, because Satoru's mother wants a grandchild and therefore a second child.

While Satoru is taking the preparatory courses for the art college, he notices how much he still has to learn. An older classmate, Shimon Sasayama, gives him tutoring, but is also becoming increasingly intrusive. Keigo notices this first, he becomes suspicious and often argues with Sasayama. When Keigo brings a classmate from his preparatory school with him for a few days, it turns out that he is with Sasayama and now wants to break up because Sasayama is always flirting with others. But then both speak with the help of Keigo and Satoru and notice that they have had strong mutual feelings for a long time. They just never really talked about it, so they were unsure of how each other was feeling. So Keigo and Satoru were able to help them both out of their relationship crisis. Now they resolve that their love will last as long and stay fresh as that of Satoru's parents.

After Satoru fails the first university exams, with Keigo's support he succeeds in passing the exam for the university of his choice. So now both are studying and Keigo wants to move out of home to have a shorter way. Without further ado, he wants to move in with Satoru, but first has to convince his parents. For them, it's almost as if their son is getting married - after all, nothing is missing, except for the couple to be unable to get married. After an exhausting search, the two find a suitable apartment and also have the support of their parents, for which they also have to work alongside their studies. Yuji and Kagami are jealous of the two because Yuji cannot move out of the house because of his mother, and they often visit the couple. Ten years later, Keigo and Satoru are still happily together and are often visited by Kagami, who followed his father into politics, and Yuji who supports Kagami as an assistant in his career. Kagami is still jealous of the keigo, who can have a closer relationship with his partner. Meanwhile, Satoru's parents have granted their wish for a second child and an eight-year-old daughter, who is also taken care of by Satoru and Keigo.

Publications

The series was initially planned for the Biblos publishing house , which went bankrupt in 2006. The publishing house Libre Shuppan , founded by some editors, then took over the project. The manga, initially designed as a short story, was then expanded into a series. The emotions of the quiet Tono, whose face hardly shows any movement, are shown in text boxes with accompanying super-deformed representations of his head with pronounced facial expressions.

The series was published from August 10, 2006 to 2015 in Be × Boy magazine and summarized in a total of five volumes. Hinako Takanaga and the publisher also intend to continue the story, and a translation into the novel is also planned. In addition, a colored special appeared in the same magazine, which was also enclosed in two parts in volumes 2 and 4. In Germany, the first volume was published by Tokyopop in November 2007 , and the series including the second special was published by 2015. In January 2017, a special volume was published in Japan as number 6, which was also released in Germany in September of the same year. An English, French and Chinese translation was also published.

reception

The fifth volume sold over 17,000 copies in the first week after its release. The German magazine AnimaniA writes that the manga's stories about jealousy and misunderstandings that “end with a romantic happy ending and a reconciliation in bed” are drawn and told with routine, but simple and without depth. The one-sidedness will not bother fans of the genre, however, so the criticism, because Hinako Takanaga attaches particular importance to "the overflowing feelings of the protagonists and their sexual activities". Humor is not neglected either. According to AnimePro, the series shines with a cheerful as well as a "dramatic story", a "balanced mixture of bishons " and classic Shonen-Ai elements.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Without many words , Volume 1, afterword.
  2. ↑ a b Animania 11/2007, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Without many words , Volume 5, afterword.
  4. ↑ Without many words. The Incomplete Manga Guide, accessed October 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, March 9-15. Anime News Network, March 18, 2015, accessed November 1, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Without many words (Manga) - animePRO.de. In: www.animepro.de. Retrieved November 1, 2016 .