My Broken Mariko

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Aug 11, 2025 (PST) | Translate to English
  ひたすらに切ない
  I just don't cut
  悲しくて苦しくて、でもこの二人の友情に救われる人は必ずいるはず。もうこんな張り裂けるような青春の日々は遠くはるかだけど、あの日を振り返りたいときに読んでほしい一作です。

  It's sad and painful, but there must always be people who can be saved by the friendship between these two people. These turbulent days of youth are far away, but this is one work I want you to read when you want to look back on those days.

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Sep 08, 2024 (PST) | Translate to English
  映画で興味を持って購入
  I was interested in the movie and bought it
  生きるしか、生きていることでしか、相手を忘れない方法はない。でも、やっぱり苦しいですよね。何回も読み返したくなる作品です。

  The only way to remember someone is by living, and the only way to remember someone is by being alive. But it's still painful, isn't it? It's a work you'll want to reread over and over again.

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Jun 16, 2024 (PST) | Translate to English
  友人とは…?
  What is a friend...?
  This review contains spoilers. この漫画に出会えたのはたまたまなんですが、すごい出会いをしてしまったな…、と思いました。特に普段レンアイものばっかなので、まったく知らないジャンルです。マリコを取り巻いた環境も、なんとか支えようとしたシイノも無念でしかない。思い出話も救いがほとんどないです。花火をやりたい、そんな小さな願望が叶えられない。この物語自体はかなり究極なものだけど、ある意味で、自分にも周りの人にもありえそう、いやきっとありえてる話なんじゃないかと思いました。親友だろうが友人だろうが、やれることに限界がある。どんなに友達が好きでも、守りたいと思っても、自分の生活もあるし、特に子供だと他の家庭にあーだこーだ言うことは簡単じゃない。そしてシイノのようにフライパン持ってマリコの彼氏と戦っても、マリコ自身が壊れててたらシイノの助けもその場その場しのぎのものでしかない。マリコが自分で自分のことを、壊れてる、と言ったときの虚しさといったら…。学生の時にもっと助けてたら良かった?何ができた?後悔してもしきれないです。救いは見返りを求めないマキオとの出会いと、行きたかった岬で遺灰になって自由になったことと、最後のマリコからの手紙に、シイノが、うん、と肯定的な言葉を残したこと…、だと思いたい。容易に、読んで〜と言えない漫画ですが、色んな人に読んでほしい…、気分が落ちてないとき以外で…、と思ったら映画化してたんですね。恐れ入ります

  This review contains spoilers. It was a coincidence that I came across this comic, but I thought it was an amazing encounter... In particular, it's usually just Renai stuff, so it's a genre I don't know at all. The environment surrounding Mariko and Shiino, who tried to support her somehow, are nothing but a pity. There is almost no salvation in memory stories. I can't fulfill such a small desire to do fireworks. This story itself is pretty ultimate, but in a sense, I thought it was a story that could happen to me and the people around me, and no, I'm sure it's possible. Whether it's your best friend or friend, there's a limit to what you can do. No matter how much you love your friends, no matter how much you want to protect them, you have your own life, and especially when you're a kid, it's not easy to say goodbye to other families. And even if they fight against Mariko's boyfriend with a frying pan like Shino, if Mariko herself is broken, Shiino's help is nothing but a makeshift thing on the spot. What is Mariko's emptiness when she herself says that she's broken... Wish I had helped more when I was a student? what was it done? I can't regret it enough. I want to think that salvation is an encounter with Makio who doesn't ask for anything in return, the fact that she became free by becoming ashes at the cape she wanted to go to, and that Shiino left positive words, “Yes,” in her last letter from Mariko... It's a comic that can't be easily said to be read, but when I thought I wanted many people to read it... other than when I wasn't feeling down..., it was made into a movie. I'm sorry

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