My Girl
Alt Names: | รักเกินร้อย เจ้าหญิงน้อยของผม マイガール (佐原 ミズ) Benim Kızım MY GIRL~我的乖乖女~ 我的乖乖女 |
Author: | Sahara Mizu |
Artist: | Sahara Mizu |
Genres: | Drama Seinen Slice of Life |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | Kazama Masamune - a single 23-year-old man... has a kid? During the season of cherry blossoms, his beloved passes away. He happens to meet a little girl outside work and realizes she is his daughter who was raised in secrecy by his lover. The worst spring of his life is transformed into a painful yet vivid spring. |
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Typically, someone new entering into a pseudo-widow(er)'s life may think they're prepared for the long haul but their idea of that is based on someone who isn't still (perpetually) grieving. Loving someone who (still) loves someone else is going to stress things from the start. When you love someone, you want it to be mutual. Many people say they'll work for it but few ever really do.
Time to confuse the masses:
Person A loves person B. B dies. A never had any closure, so A's love for B is preserved. Person C comes along and falls for A. C thinks the situation can be treated like any other relationship where A meets B, sparks fly and they all live happily ever after. That's wrong. C is not B because that place in A's heart is being preserved. B is C's challenge. Only when C can overcome B in A's heart can C become the new B. Unfortunately, C almost always greatly underestimates this task and eventually gives up, reinforcing Bs preservation as an infallible memory.
Of course, A should also definitely be putting some effort into it. An A that shows no effort is just a pity party looking for handouts. A and C need to work together.
It's a disappointment, in her love was only a crush and she measured too lightly what it means to barge into a relationship of a single father whose love is dead. Her own lack logic and actions were to blame and nothing else. Love isn't impatient.. it endures for what it holds dear.
I do hope the laundry lady will get more into the story as she seems to like Koharu genuinely and not a pretender like the office lady.
Though I admit it'd be pretty shallow of him to like her just because she looks like Youko. But I just don't know if he'll ever move on at this point.
If you haven't read REAL here you go:
http://vatoto.com/comic/_/comics/real-r2498
Introspective manga/manhwa are the best
I'm sure she didn't really mean what she said, since she should have already known he had baggage. It was still pretty harsh, but I think what made it worse was that the kid overheard her.
He told her straight up that he had some baggage still and that it would take a while to go through. He told her that if it was fine with her, then he could try accepting her into his life and they could see where things go from there. I feel a little sorry for her and think it would have been best if she had just said no.
Trying to date someone who has a kid is tricky. If the kid starts to like you and then you leave it's really hard on the family.
In my case the same happened with a common theme that pops up in mangas: kids from divorced couples totally losing contact with one or both parents. At first, I thought this was some overdramatization by the mangaka, but after seeing the theme again and again in mangas, films, books, I came to realize that it is a reality of Japanese society. When a couple divorces, and each parent creates a new couple, their children can be seen as a real problem. Either one of the parents completely cuts contact, or the names of the children are changed, to "enter" the new family. In both cases, there is a negation of the kid's identity that would be unacceptable (and even unlawful) in Europe, where you can't change your kid's name to fit your new couple.
In any case, manga is sometimes a useful medium to have some penetrating insight into a different culture.
In my case the same happened with a common theme that pops up in mangas: kids from divorced couples totally losing contact with one or both parents. At first, I thought this was some overdramatization by the mangaka, but after seeing the theme again and again in mangas, films, books, I came to realize that it is a reality of Japanese society. When a couple divorces, and each parent creates a new couple, their children can be seen as a real problem. Either one of the parents completely cuts contact, or the names of the children are changed, to "enter" the new family. In both cases, there is a negation of the kid's identity that would be unacceptable (and even unlawful) in Europe, where you can't change your kid's name to fit your new couple.
In any case, manga is sometimes a useful medium to have some penetrating insight into a different culture.
Something is wrong here. Where I come from (the US, specifically the US Marines, and retirement in Southern California) we usually cheer on a couple from the area we work in. Is there company so devoid of real people that they all have to try and destroy a relationship between a single father and a women who loves him?
What is the mangaka trying to tell us? I love this manga, with the great relationship between father and daughter, and the attraction of the girl for a caring senpai. It is wonderful. Why do these a**h***s have to try and destroy it? It is really sad that even the women who went to an arranged marriage meeting with the mc has to badmouth him. She should be ashamed of what she said, primarily because it seems to be caused by jealousy. If I am wrong, and some poster excoriates me for my total callousness in this post, I apologize. Sorry, but I cannot see it otherwise.
I put in a post on "The Friendly Winter" where I exchanged posts with a couple of other posters where I explained a great may points, and got excoriated for writing too much. Go there, if you want more of my opinions (small chance).