History Manga / SilverNina

--->'''-Chapter 1, "A Girl Filled With Hopes and Dreams"'''

* AnAesop:
** There is no shame in being sweet;
** There is dignity and pride on all types of labor, regardless of how fancy or lucrative it is. A man should not think himself above a task if it's productive;
** There will be people who will always love you regardless of how low you fall, but you may not be able to recognize them immediately;
** The unlikeliest of people, now matter how young or inexperienced, can become your moral support;
** You are not alone and you haven't failed until you've pulled every string;
** Your dreams are not yours only, and that you can reach them is the dream of the people who love you;
** It's not wise to dwell on past success because the future might not allow for it to happen again.
** You can get help even from people you don't like with the mere act of asking for it;
** You may not see the virtues of others until a third party points them out, and your own virtues might not be immediately noticeable to others either until that third party intervenes for you too;
** That a person doesn't celebrate every little thing you do doesn't mean that they don't like you or don't care about you; the best friends are the ones that can get you going by telling you precisely what you don't want to hear.

The series is serialized in the {{seinen}} magazine ''Manga Action'' published by ''Futabasha'', beginning serialization on April 2012. The manga was licensed by Crunchyroll on 2014 and can be read [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/silver-nina/volumes here]].

The series is serialized in the {{seinen}} magazine ''Manga Action'' published by ''Futabasha'', beginning serialization in April 2012. The manga's most recent chapters can be read on [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/silver-nina/volumes Crunchyroll]].

'''Silver Nina''' (''Shirogane no Nina'') is a SliceOfLife manga series by Itokatsu.

The manga's most recent chapters can be read on [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/silver-nina/volumes Crunchyroll]].

* RunningGag: Shutaro asking Tomoe to drive him and Nina around, since he's flat broke. She complies due to two very important aspects: she loves hanging around Nina, and she loves Shutaro.

** You may not see the virtues of others until a third party points them out, and your own virtues might not be immediately noticeable to others either until that third party intervenes for you too.

** It's not wise to dwell on the past because the future might not allow for it to happen again.

* BookDumb: Arisa, but not because she's not smart. She's just lazy.

* '''Sana''', an otaku teenager from Chiba who during the Summer vacation befriends Nina.

* {{Iyashikei}}: Most of the story takes place in the idyllic countryside where Shutaro's parents live.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Invoked. Arisa is as rowdy as a girl can get, but it's shown that she wants to be girlier and to be called pretty.

* ParentalSubstitute: Shutaro is effectively this for his niece Nina, on account of her mother being overseas.

* ShedTheFamilyName: Nina goes by her mom's family name, Shimazaki, because her mother divorced her Finnish husband and raised Nina on her own.

* 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 considers 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.

* ShedTheFamilyName: Nina goes by her mom's family name, Shimazaki, because her mother divorced her Suomi husband and raised Nina on her own.

* 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 Suomen 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.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: As a Suomi child, Nina has incredible tolerance to extreme temperature changes and severe heat and cold. She used to revel in the Scandinavian custom of boiling in a sauna and then plunging in icy waters immediately. She's also a remarkable skater for her age, having plenty of practice from back in Helsinki.

Shimazaki Shutaro recently lost his job in Tokyo and sees himself forced to return to his family home in the countryside village of Tsumagoi, 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, 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.

Shimazaki Shutaro recently lost his job in Tokyo and sees himself forced to return to his family home in the countryside of Tsumagoi, 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, 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.

* FirstPersonPerson: 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 Suomen 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.