Kakukaku Shikajika
Alt Names: | かくかくしかじか So-and-so, Such-and-such |
Author: | Higashimura Akiko |
Artist: | Higashimura Akiko |
Genres: | Award Winning Drama Josei School Life Slice of Life |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | This is an autobiography that tells the story of Akiko Hayashi, the author as she was in her third year of high school at the beginning of the story. Through her friend Futami, Akiko starts going to an art class led by Kenzou Hidaka, an intimidating teacher who spends much of his time yelling at his students and keeping them focused on drawing with the use of a bamboo sword. Akiko is initially confused by the behavior of the teacher and her fellow students in the class, but she keeps going regardless, eventually becoming the manga author she is today. Winner of the 2015 Manga Taisho Award. |
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Fine, I won't do it to this manga.
I just did it because I knew the meaning and thought it might give readers an insight into it.
So there!
Please do not add alt names to a manga page unless they are either a direct alternate name, an official translation from a publisher, or a chapter name within an anthology. Thanks!
"Kakukaku Shikajika" roughly translates as "Blah Blah Blah".
Ps: Any Turks out there who wanna do joint-translation? Contact me! Can't do this on my own, so much speech.
added the award winning tag and also added a line to the synopsis per
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-24/akiko-higashimura-kakukaku-shikajika-wins-8th-manga-taisho-award/.86315
oh sweet jesus that hits right in the feels.
Kakukaku Shikajika has already ended.
Volume 5 is the last one.
Higashimura will break your heart and will love every second of this suffering.
I like that guy's work too!
I wonder if the two of them ever get in touch and talk about Hidaka-sensei. The idea itself make me feel like crying.
Way to stab it right into the heart.
O damn the last two chapters got to me ! The Feels Man, the Guilt !
praise hachimitsu scans for uploading two chapters at a time; I wouldn't be able to handle it if it was chapter 29 alone
really hoping this isn't the end of the manga (I mean, it's ongoing but someone could've forgotten to mark it finished--)
I read this manga in one go today. I know it was going to coming, it was pretty explicit but still, the last ch... I have the deep feeling that I'm on the verge to cry, like that lump in the throat when you want to cry. I really admire Higashimura-sensei now. Sensei is not now only alive in her heart, but also to us readers, which is an amazing thing to do. :']
Ugh, she is about to do something regrettable isn't she.
Crap, I was worred about something horrible happening.
Goddamn.
sensei noooooooooooo
He's dead i know he's dead ! Nooo
Wow so Yoshitomi Akihito went to the same place!? Crazy.
People don't get published just because the editor feels sorry for them. That has to have been at least mostly her insecurity talking.
It does seem as if there's a different publishing culture
Meanwhile, those musings at the end of the new chapter . . . they just hit me, you know?
*falls over*
This is just me speculating, but I doubt she had much of a choice in the matter. She had only barely managed to get her foot in the door by winning the third place prize to earn her a debut, and then even after several rejections, that editor was kind enough to accept the storyboard for her second one-shot. Higashimura even mentions in chapter 24 that she suspected the editor was just doing this out of pity for her, so she didn't really have anywhere else to go since it's doubtful anyone else would even give her the time of day.
On top of that, Higuashimura alludes to the fact that the times in which she was living were changing, and the kind of manga that she grew up reading weren't necessarily popular anymore by the time she started drawing manga, so the stylistic change from the publisher is understandable. In the end, it was a "change or die" situation for her, which is why she was so desperate at the end of chapter 24 to write something that'd make it into the magazine.
So I'm wondering . . . OK, so the magazine she'd worshipped since her youth disappeared. And the publishers were doing something radically new, revamped, and kind of stupid.
Couldn't she just find some OTHER magazine? Surely there was something out there still that wasn't quite so relentlessly "cheerful, stylish, fun . . . and Youthful!"
Yeah. And I'm totally on her side just based on the descriptions of the "before" and "after" versions.
I probably don't want to know what that makes me.