History Manga / SilverNina

-->''I lost my job about a year ago. After that, I couldn't find another job. My savings were getting too low for my own comfort, so I decided to return to my family home. (...) There was a little foreign girl I hadn't seen before standing there...''
--->'''--Chapter 1, "A Girl Filled With Hopes and Dreams"'''

** Arisa plays "''[[Videogame/SuperSmashBros Smash Fighting Men]]''", "''[[Videogame/MarioKart Marizo Super Racing]]''", "''[[{{Videogame/Splatoon}} Splash Shooters]]''" and "''[[{{Videogame/Halo}} Heipo Space Soldier]]''" on a [[UsefulNotes/Playstation4 GS4]] console; she also plays a ''"[[Videogame/MonsterHunter Fluffy Monster Hunter]]"'' on a "[[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS 3DLS]]".

* BestFriend: Nina and Shutaro are best friends, in spite of the difference in their ages.

* CommitmentIssues: Shutaro doesn't pursue Tomoe in spite of having the approval of her parents because he hasn't abandoned the hope of pursuing his goals in Tokyo. [[spoiler:He tells Tomoe that if it weren't for that, he'd be more than happy to be with her]].

* FirstNameBasis: Nina is usually in this with everyone she interacts with; later, Makoto and Arisa start doing it to each other unconsciously, signifying how close they've become in spite of their initial mutual hostility.

** Tomoe's dad is also a very doting man and employer, in spite of his stone-face.

* ObliviousToLove: Subverted. Shutaro and Tomoe know that they like each other, but neither is willing to take the crucial step. Shutaro deems that settling with Tomoe would mean giving up his dreams in Tokyo, and Tomoe does not want to tie him down in spite of their love for each other. It gets to the point where EveryoneCanSeeIt and actively [[ShipperOnDeck trying to encourage them to be together]]. [[spoiler:Shutaro lets Tomoe know that he is indeed more than willing, but has to give Tokyo another try if he wants to be a man with self-respect]].

* StylisticSuck: In spite of the gorgeous SceneryPorn and {{Arcadia}} aspects of the manga's artwork, a characteristic flaw in Itokatsu's manga works consists of characters looking stiff and seldom turning their heads, ''Silver Nina'' included.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:In Chapter 132 Shutaro arrives to Tsumagoi, climbs out of the taxi in his pajamas and meets Tomoe as she's working in her father's field, finally confessing to her. Bewildered by his appearance and in tears, Tomoe immediately accepts]].

* ChristmasCake: There's much ado about Tomoe entering her mid-late twenties and not having a boyfriend or a prospect to marry. This is one of the reasons her parents and Shutaro's try to pair them together, but they don't due to unresolved personal issues.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Most people that meet Nina want to be her friends, and she's shown to be an item for her male classmates, and a prospective friend for the girls.

* BestFriend: Nina and Shutaro are this, in spite of the difference in their ages.

* CoolBigSis: Tomoe and Sana are this for Nina.

* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Shutaro confesses to Tomoe in Chapter 132]].

The series is serialized in the {{seinen}} magazine ''Manga Action'' published by ''Futabasha'', beginning serialization in April 2012. The manga was licensed by Crunchyroll in 2014 and can be read [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/silver-nina/volumes here]]. After seven years of publication and 133 chapters, ''Silver Nina'' reached its end in August 2019, with two extra chapters subsequently published in September that year.

* NotSoDifferent: Albeit they both talked tall about their dreams, both Yuko and Shutaro [[spoiler:abandon their dream jobs to be with their loved ones, Yuko with her daughter, and Shutaro with Tomoe]].

'''Silver Nina''' (''Shirogane no Nina'') is a SliceOfLife / {{Iyashikei}} manga series by Itokatsu.

* LoveEpiphany: In Chapter 131, a Tokyo night where Shutaro is feeling particularly lonely, [[spoiler:he remembers Tomoe's dream and realizes that she meant ''' with HIM''']]:

** In Chapter 131, Shutaro [[spoiler:gets fed up with his loneliness in Tokyo and gets up from his futon, heads out in pajamas and slippers, and grabs a taxi to Tsumagoi. Dude doesn't even pack]].

* HugeSchoolgirl: [[spoiler: In the second post-end chapter, Nina (now a high schooler) has surpassed her friend Sana (a university student) in height. This is due to the fact that as a half-Suomi, Nina is bound to be taller than the average Japanese person.]]

* TheyDo: [[In Chapter 132 Shutaro arrives to Tsumagoi, climbs out of the taxi in his pajamas and meets Tomoe as she's working in her father's field, finally confessing to her. Bewildered by his appearance and in tears, Tomoe immediately accepts]].

* '''Takashi''', a lazy, bratty and rowdy classmate of Nina, Arisa and Tomoe.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Nina doesn't use pronouns when referring to herself. This is a VerbalTic due to two aspects of her upbringing: first, Japanese is not her first language (she used to speak Finnish in Finland), and second, she's a young girl who has just moved to Japan, and has had relatively few interactions with Japanese people in general to have learned the correct pronouns. All things considered, her Japanese is excellent when one remembers she's lived her whole life in Finland until shortly before the beginning of the manga, having only spoken Japanese with her mother until then.

28 year-old Shimazaki Shutaro recently lost his job in Tokyo and sees himself forced to return to his family home in the countryside village of Tsumagoi, Kita-Karuizawa, Gunma Prefecture. When he enters his parents' house, he is surprised to find a out that a young silver-haired girl has been living there too. The girl happens to be his [[{{UsefulNotes/Finland}} Fenno]]-Japanese niece Nina, whom he hasn't seen since she was a baby, sent by his older sister Yuko (who lives abroad) to live in Japan. Now, Shutaro tries to find a new purpose in life while bonding and taking care of his niece.