The Flavor of Melon Manga Reviews (P.13)

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尊い…

precious...

上巻でも十分面白いのに、下巻での怒涛。静かなのに怒涛。最初はチャラ攻めとイケメン不憫受けなのかな…とおもってましたが、そこはさすがの作者さま。そんなことでは終わりません。下巻では二人のその後まで読めて最高でした！

Even though the first volume was interesting enough, the second volume was furious. I was furious even though it was quiet. At first, I was wondering if it was a chara attack and the handsome guy would take pity... but that really is the author. It doesn't end there. It was great to be able to read the second volume until after the two of them!

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あったかくて癒される

Warm and soothing

主人公のキャラ2人が今までの絵津鼓さんの作品とは一味違っててリアル感が増してます。優しい、あったかい、じ〜んっと心に沁みるお話です。インテリアとかもセンスあって良いです。

The two main characters are a bit different from Ezuko's works up until now, and the sense of realism has increased. It's a kind, warm, and heart-wrenching story. The interior is also tasteful, and it's nice.

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好きだなぁー

I like it

この漂う空気感、言葉のチョイス、最高でした。どうなるのかハラハラドキドキで終わったと思ったら最後にハピエン。うん。二人でいるのが一番だ。

This feeling of air and choice of words was amazing. When I thought it was going to end with a bit of excitement, I was happy at the end. yeah. It's best to be with two people.

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しとしとと降り積もる。

It slowly falls and piles up.

突然同居することになった2人。些細な表情、行動、心の機微がしとしとと降り積もっていくようなお話。なぜナカジョーくんだったのか、互いに絶妙なバランスを何気なく取っている感じが温かく感じる。メロンもメロンソーダも大好きですが、どちらもそれぞれに、良いんです。そして絵柄が確かに変わっているけど、どちらも良いです。

The two suddenly decided to live together. It's a story where trivial expressions, actions, and subtlety of the mind pile up. Why was it Nakajo-kun, and the feeling that they were casually balancing each other perfectly feels warm. I love melons and melon soda, but both are good for their own. And although the pattern has certainly changed, both are good.

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生きてさえいれば

As long as I'm alive

何と表現したらいいかわからないですが、絵津鼓さんのかくキャラクターは生きている、生身の人間を感じます。自分がしらない誰かが話してたいい話といい話が繋がってすごくいい話になっていくような感覚です。大好きです。とくに夢の話が好きでした。自分も何かに愛情を注ぎたいのかもしれないと気づいたので。

I don't know how to describe it, but the character Ezuko saku feels like a living, living person. I feel like a good story told by someone I don't know is connected to a great story and it becomes a really good story. I love it. I especially liked the story of dreams. I realized that maybe I wanted to pour love into something too.

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辛さに共感するけど最後に報われます

I sympathize with the pain, but it pays off at the end

度合いは違えど生きていて生きずらさを感じることは誰しもある事だと思います．そんな生きずらさを感じながらも一生懸命生きている自分も誰かの支えがあって生きていることを改めて感じることが出来ました．ストーリ性も深いですが，BLとしてもしっかりまとまっています．最後は読んでいる自分も「あぁよかった」と思い救われました．

I think there are times when we all feel that life is difficult, no matter how difficult it is. I was able to feel once again that even though it is difficult to live, I was able to feel once again that I am living with someone's support. The story is deep, but it's also well organized as a BL. At the end, I was also saved by thinking “Oh good.”

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素晴らしすぎます。

It's too great.

This review contains spoilers. 作者さん買いです。もう、言いたいことは全て他のレビューでおっしゃってくださってるので、星10つけたいってことだけ、言いにきました。他の作品も全て大好きですが、こちらの作品も、数えきれないくらい読み返すことになりそうです。他の作品からも、きっと喪失を知っている作者さんだと思っていましたが、やはりそうだよな、と思わされました。『これさえ満たされてたらってところが、欠けている』この感覚が分かりすぎて、涙が出ました。

This review contains spoilers. The author is buying it. Everything I wanted to say has already been said in other reviews, so I just wanted to give it 10 stars. I love all of the other works, but it seems like I'll be rereading this one too many times. Other works also made me think that the author must be aware of the loss, but that's true. I was in tears because I understood this feeling so much that “even this had been satisfied, it was lacking.”

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よかった

That was great

すごい…やっぱりすごい。先生の作品ほんと大好きで楽しみに読み進めました。どちらも心に陰を抱えるふたり。出会えてよかった。私もふたりにとっての相手のような人に出会いたかった…素敵な作品をありがとうございます。そしてケンちゃんって…LAST FRIDAYのらケンちゃんですよね！？なんか自分の知り合いに久しぶりに会った感じになりました笑

amazing... amazing after all. I really loved the teacher's work, and I was looking forward to reading it. They both have shadows in their hearts. I'm glad we met. I also wanted to meet someone who was like a partner for both of them... Thank you so much for this wonderful work. And Ken-chan... is Ken-chan from LAST FRIDAY!? I feel like I haven't met someone I know in a long time lol

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買った自分を褒めたい

I want to praise myself for buying it

初の作者様で、表紙が綺麗だったので何となく…で購入。出逢ってしまった、、買った自分グッジョブです。読み終わった勢いで他の作品も即購入しました。どの作品も、どの登場人物も、もれなく好きです。

It was the first author, and the cover was beautiful, so I bought it somehow... I came across... this is a good job for myself that I bought. As soon as I finished reading it, I immediately bought other works. I love every work and every character.

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これがいい

This is good

多くを語ること、「ここってこういうことだよね？」と答えを求めること、ふたりの関係に名前をつけること。そんなこと全て無粋に思えるこの作品が私は大好きです。読んで、そしてずっと心に置いておきたい。

Talking a lot, “this is what this place is, isn't it?” Asking for answers, and naming the relationship between the two. I love this work where all of that seems silly. I want to read it and keep it in my heart forever.

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途中何度もぐっときました。

I went there a lot of times along the way.

主人公二人の抱えている生きづらさ、寂しさに何度も胸をつかれ涙がこぼれました。そんな二人がお互いの存在に癒され、ゆっくりと心と体を近づけていく様子が上下２巻にじっくり描かれています。心に響く言葉がたくさんあり、感動して涙しました。絵がほんわかした優しい感じから陰影のあるシャープな感じに変わったようですが、このお話にぴったりに感じました。

My heart was overwhelmed over and over again by the difficulty and loneliness that the two main characters have, and tears spilled out. How these two people are healed by each other's presence and slowly bring their mind and body closer is carefully depicted in the top and bottom 2 volumes. There were so many words that resonated with my heart, and I was moved to tears. The picture seems to have changed from a warm, gentle feeling to a sharp one with shadows, and I felt it was perfect for this story.

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よかった… よかった……

good... good...

This review contains spoilers. 序盤から不穏な場面がチラホラとあったので、不安を感じながらページを進めていきました。(死別だけは勘弁してと…) そういう事だったのか…。私は昔、木内さんと同じ症状を抱えていた姉と、2人暮らしをしていたのですが、症状が少しずつ善くなってきた姉に木内さんと全く同じ事を言われた事を思い出して、ついウルッと来てしまいました。「何にも言わずに、ただ一緒に暮らしてくれたから救われた」と。私は当時、姉の為に何も出来ないと感じていたのになぁ…。この作品を読んで、とてもしっくりときました。下巻の描き下ろしを拝見し、本当に安心&ハッピー? 旅行行って、イチャイチャしてください~。素敵な作品をありがとう。。。

This review contains spoilers. There were a lot of disturbing scenes from the beginning, so I proceeded through the page while feeling uneasy. (If you just forgive the bereavement...) I wonder if that was the case... I used to live with my older sister, who had the same symptoms as Kiuchi-san, and I remembered that my older sister, who had the same symptoms little by little, said the exact same thing as Kiuchi-san, and I just came here. “I was saved because they just lived together without saying anything,” he said. At the time, I felt like I couldn't do anything for my sister... I read this work, and it really struck me. Looking at the drawing in the second volume, are you really relieved and happy? Please go on a trip and flirt. Thanks for the wonderful work...

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おすすめです

I recommend

This review contains spoilers. 二人の優しい関係にとても癒されました。時間をかけて絆を育てていき、癒し合うことでお互いに必要で他には代えられない存在になっていきます。無理に背伸びする必要もなくありのままを受け入れられて自然に甘え甘えられる関係は永遠の理想です。

This review contains spoilers. I was so healed by their kind relationship. Over time, they develop bonds, and by healing each other, they become necessary for each other and irreplaceable. A relationship where you can be accepted as you are without the need to force yourself to stretch out and be naturally spoiled is an eternal ideal.

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絵津鼓さんだからこそ描けた作品

A work that only Ezuko could have drawn

人は、人との関わりを求めて傷つき、人との関わりの中で癒され生きていく生き物なんだなと、改めて感じられる作品でした。2人が惹かれあっていくことに、これほど説得力のある作品になかなか会えません。作中、木内さんが中条くんに対して告げた本音が、とてもリアルでこれは苦しんだ作者さんでなければ描けない話なんだと思います。題材はズシンと重いけれど読み進めやすい、でも心にズシンと残る、そんな素敵な作品です。

It was a work that made me feel once again that people are creatures that are hurt in search of relationships with people, and that they are healed and live in relationships with people. The two are drawn to each other, and it's hard to come across a work that is so convincing. The true intentions that Kiuchi told Nakajo during the story are very real, and I think this is a story that can only be drawn by the artist who has suffered. It's such a wonderful work that the subject is heavy, yet easy to read, yet remains in my heart.

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まるで一本の恋愛映画

It's like a romance movie

This review contains spoilers. 2人の関係が、ゆっくりゆっくりと変化していく過程にとてもキュンキュンしました！徐々に明かされていく2人の複雑な背景があって、互いが互いを支え合っているように見えました。なんといっても間の取り方が上手いと思います。ちょっとした日常的な会話、物語の核心に触れるわけでもなんでもないその会話が、さりげなく彼等の心を通わせていってるんです。ゆっくりと話が進んでいきますが、それでも確実に、日々の中で何かが変化し続けていっていて。恋人ではないけど、友達でもなくて、体だけの関係というわけでもない。そんな不思議な関係がなんだか新鮮でした。メロンソーダって、実際メロンの味がするわけじゃないのになんでメロン味なんだろう。不思議だなぁ。実際メロンじゃないのに、これはメロンって自分に言い聞かせてるんだもん。上下巻揃って一つの映画を見ているようで、実写化して欲しいと思うくらい美しかったです。最後はきちんとハッピーエンドで良かった。人間味が溢れていて、とても綺麗な作品でした。

This review contains spoilers. It was very exciting as the relationship between the two slowly and slowly changed! There was a complicated background between the two that gradually came to light, and it seemed like they were supporting each other. After all, I think it's a good way to keep space. A little everyday conversation, that conversation that doesn't touch the core of the story or anything, is casually communicating with them. The conversation progressed slowly, but even so, something definitely continued to change in the course of the day. They're not lovers, but they're not friends, and it's not just a physical relationship. Such a strange relationship was kind of fresh. Melon soda doesn't actually taste like a melon, so I wonder why it tastes like a melon. that's strange. I'm telling myself this is a melon even though it's not actually a melon. It was like watching one movie with both the top and bottom volumes, and it was so beautiful that I wanted it to be made into a live-action movie. I'm glad it had a proper happy ending at the end. It was a very beautiful work, full of humanity.

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やっぱり深い

After all it's deep

神です。この方の作品はどれも全部漏れなく好きですが、なんとなくメロンの味はこの方の作品の良さを抽出した感じというか、そんな感じがしました。なんかもう人間自体が愛しくなる、命が尊くなる作品。

It's God. I like all of this person's works without omission, but somehow the melon flavor felt like extracting the goodness of this person's work. It's a work where humans themselves are already loved, and lives are precious.

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奥が深い

It's deep

作者様がいです。どれも全部いいけど、今回のも奥が深かった～なんか何度も読んで少しずついろんな箇所で感じれるものがあるなとおもいました。

I like the author. All of them are good, but this one was also profound ~ I read something over and over again, and little by little I thought there were things I could feel in various places.

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じーん

Gene

言葉の一つ一つが心に響きました。愛されたい。実感したい。満たされたい。皆んな思うところは一緒だよなぁ。ハピエンでよかったです。安心しました。絵が少し変わって又よかったです。絵津鼓先生の作品ズシンと来ます。何度も読ませていただいています。

Every word touched my heart. I want to be loved. I want to feel it. I want to be satisfied. everyone's thoughts are the same, aren't they? I'm glad it was Happien. I'm relieved. I'm glad that the picture has changed a bit. I'm coming with Ezuko sensei's works Zushin. I've read it many times.

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とても良かった…

It was very good...

This review contains spoilers. 独特な空気感が堪りません。最後木内さんが自分の一番辛い部分を曝け出して抱き合う場面は涙が出ました。一つの映画を観てるようでした。

This review contains spoilers. The unique atmosphere is unbearable. At the end, the scene where Kiuchi revealed the hardest part about himself and hugged each other brought tears to my eyes. It was like watching one movie.

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心にしみるよね…

it sticks to my heart...

大好きな作家さんです、絵柄が変わったと言うことだけど元がセンスの塊だから、昔も今も自分の中に染み込んできます。派手に何かが進んで解決していくわけでもないけど、人生ってそういうものだよなと思えた作品

This is an artist I love, and they say that the design has changed, but since the original is a mass of sense, it has seeped into me both in the past and now. It's not like something progresses in a flashy way to solve it, but it's a work that makes me think life is like that

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