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->''"I hardly know what to say. Sometimes the god of chance... can throw quite a curve ball."''
-->-- '''Meiko Inoue'''
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''Solanin'' is a one-volume {{manga}} by Creator/InioAsano about the life of average twenty-somethings, inspired by Asano's experience after leaving university. There isn't much of a plot and the characters aren't any kind of heroes but normal people. For this though ''Solanin'' is charming. It feels real.
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''Solanin'' is a one-volume short {{manga}} by Creator/InioAsano about the life of average twenty-somethings, inspired by Asano's experience after leaving university. There isn't much of a plot The manga was serialized in ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 2005 to 2006, and the characters aren't any kind of heroes but normal people. For this though ''Solanin'' is charming. It feels real.
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''Solanin'' is a one-volume {{manga}} by Creator/InioAsano about the life of average twenty-somethings, inspired by Asano's experience after leaving university. There isn't much of a plot and the characters aren't BigDamnHeroes or any kind of heroes really, but normal people. For this though ''Solanin'' is charming. It feels real.
There is a live-action movie, released in 2010. A digital-only follow-up, ''solanin: an epilogue'', was released in June 2018.
There is a live-action movie, released in 2010. A digital-only follow-up, ''solanin: an epilogue'', was released in June 2018.
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''Solanin'' is a one-volume {{manga}} by Creator/InioAsano about the life of average twenty-somethings, inspired by Asano's experience after leaving university. There isn't much of a plot and the characters aren't BigDamnHeroes or any kind of heroes really, but normal people. For this though ''Solanin'' is charming. It feels real.
There is a live-action movie, released in 2010. A digital-only follow-up,''solanin: an epilogue'', ''Solanin: An Epilogue'', was released in June 2018.
There is a live-action movie, released in 2010. A digital-only follow-up,
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* BabiesEverAfter: The epilogue reveals in its last pages that [[spoiler:Meiko]] is pregnant.
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Meiko Inoue has been living her life as an office lady since she graduated from university. She goes to work everyday to see her annoying coworkers and boss and comes home to see her boyfriend who still doesn't have a proper job. Fed up with this schedule Meiko quits work one day figuring that she and her boyfriend Taneda can get by on her savings for at least a year. Meiko learns that life with unrestrained freedom is incredibly boring and that finding direction in life is hard.
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Meiko Inoue has been living her life as an office lady since she graduated from university. She goes to work everyday to see her annoying coworkers and boss and comes home to see her boyfriend who still doesn't have a proper job. Fed up with this schedule schedule, Meiko quits work one day day, figuring that she and her boyfriend Taneda can get by on her savings for at least a year. Meiko However, she learns that life with unrestrained freedom is incredibly boring and that finding direction in life is hard.
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''Solanin'' is a one-volume {{manga}} about the life of average twenty-somethings, inspired by the author's experience after leaving university. There isn't much of a plot and the characters aren't BigDamnHeroes or any kind of heroes really, but normal people. For this though ''Solanin'' is charming. It feels real.
There is a live-action movie, released in 2010.
There is a live-action movie, released in 2010.
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''Solanin'' is a one-volume {{manga}} by Creator/InioAsano about the life of average twenty-somethings, inspired by the author's Asano's experience after leaving university. There isn't much of a plot and the characters aren't BigDamnHeroes or any kind of heroes really, but normal people. For this though ''Solanin'' is charming. It feels real.
There is a live-action movie, released in2010.
2010. A digital-only follow-up, ''solanin: an epilogue'', was released in June 2018.
There is a live-action movie, released in
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* TheBandMinusTheFace: Rip and Kato continue to play after [[spoiler:Taneda dies]], and Meiko becomes inspired to learn the guitar, eventually [[spoiler:taking Taneda's place as lead singer and guitarist]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In a fit of rage, Meiko throws her TV against a glass partition in her apartment, shattering it and causing a cut on her cheek from the shrapnel. The bandage is in place for quite a while, but eventually heals completely.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In a fit of rage, Meiko throws her TV against a glass partition in her apartment, shattering it and causing a cut on her cheek from the shrapnel. The bandage is in place for quite a while, but eventually heals completely.
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* TheBandMinusTheFace: Rip and Kato continue to play after [[spoiler:Taneda dies]], and Meiko becomes inspired to learn the guitar, eventually [[spoiler:taking Taneda's place as Rotti's lead singer and guitarist]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In a fit of rage, Meiko throws her TV against a glass partition in her apartment, shattering it and causing a cut on her cheek from the shrapnel. The bandage is in place for quite a while, but when it's eventuallyheals removed, the cut has healed completely.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In a fit of rage, Meiko throws her TV against a glass partition in her apartment, shattering it and causing a cut on her cheek from the shrapnel. The bandage is in place for quite a while, but when it's eventually
* ButtMonkey: Taneda's dad. When he comes to visit Meiko [[spoiler:after Taneda's death]], a bird poops on his head as he's walking to the door, and a dog chases him down the street as he's leaving.
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* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Rotti becomes this after Meiko joins. Near the end of the manga, a flashback to when Meiko was first meeting everyone reveals that she was apparently going to join the band as singer but decided to pass singing duties to Taneda and simply be a fan.
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* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Rotti becomes this after Meiko [[spoiler:Meiko]] joins. Near the end of the manga, a flashback to when Meiko was first meeting everyone reveals that she was apparently going to join the band as singer but decided to pass singing duties to Taneda and simply be a fan.
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* TheSlacker: Meiko and all her friends display varying degrees of this attitude.
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* TheSlacker: Meiko and all her friends display varying degrees of this attitude.attitude, although the interminable boredom of a carefree life eats at Meiko's nerves after a while.
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* SnotBubble: Both Rip and Kato are shown with these multiple times while sleeping. In one instance Rip's even dreaming about himself with one...and in the dream he's dreaming about having one, forming a DrosteImage.
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* WaitingForABreak: Everyone in Rotti after they release their demo CD ''solanin''; unfortunately, their one opportunity would mean [[spoiler:becoming the backup band for an up-and-coming idol]] and Meiko turns down the offer on their behalf.
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* WaitingForABreak: Everyone in Rotti after they release their demo CD ''solanin''; unfortunately, their one opportunity would mean [[spoiler:becoming the backup band for an up-and-coming idol]] idol instead of being signed as Rotti]] and Meiko turns down the offer on their behalf.
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* EmbarassingNickname: Rip isn't his real name, but a nickname he got saddled with as a kid after the seat of his pants ripped in front of his classmates. He's long past feeling any shame about it, although it does annoy him occasionally to think about.
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* EmbarassingNickname: EmbarrassingNickname: Rip isn't his real name, but a nickname he got saddled with as a kid after the seat of his pants ripped in front of his classmates. He's long past feeling any shame about it, although it does annoy him occasionally to think about.
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* EmbarassingNickname: Rip isn't his real name, but a nickname he got saddled with as a kid after the seat of his pants ripped in front of his classmates. He's long past feeling any shame about it, although it does annoy him occasionally to think about.
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Solanin is a one-volume manga about the life of average twenty-somethings, inspired by the author's experience after leaving university. There isn't much of a plot and the characters aren't BigDamnHeroes or any kind of heroes really, but normal people. For this though Solanin is charming. It feels real.
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* BittersweetEndingTheBandMinusTheFace: Rip and Kato continue to play after [[spoiler:Taneda dies]], and Meiko becomes inspired to learn the guitar, eventually [[spoiler:taking Taneda's place as lead singer and guitarist]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In a fit of rage, Meiko throws her TV against a glass partition in her apartment, shattering it and causing a cut on her cheek from the shrapnel. The bandage is in place for quite a while, but eventually heals completely.
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* BreakupSong: Meiko initially thinks that Taneda wrote "solanin" as one, but she later wonders if it was meant to represent him leaving behind who he used to be.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Subverted|Trope}}. In a fit of rage, Meiko throws her TV against a glass partition in her apartment, shattering it and causing a cut on her cheek from the shrapnel. The bandage is in place for quite a while, but eventually heals completely.
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* BreakupSong: Meiko initially thinks that Taneda wrote "solanin" as one, but she later wonders if it was meant to represent him leaving behind who he used to be.
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Taneda]]
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The college music club is a post-secondary example
* OfficeLady: Meiko is a (reluctant) one at the beginning of the book
* TheSlacker: Meiko and all her friends display varying degrees of this attitude
* SliceOfLife
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The college music club is a post-secondary example
* OfficeLady: Meiko is a (reluctant) one at the beginning of the book
* TheSlacker: Meiko and all her friends display varying degrees of this attitude
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Taneda]]
[[spoiler:Taneda]] spends his final moments thinking back on past events with a serene smile on his face.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Rip]] has had a crush on Meiko for pretty much the entire time he's known her but has never acted on it, even after [[spoiler:Taneda's death]], seeming to be content with having her around as a friend and [[spoiler:bandmate]].
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The college music club is a post-secondaryexample
example.
* OfficeLady: Meiko is a (reluctant) one at the beginning of thebook
book.
* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Rotti becomes this after Meiko joins. Near the end of the manga, a flashback to when Meiko was first meeting everyone reveals that she was apparently going to join the band as singer but decided to pass singing duties to Taneda and simply be a fan.
* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: A variant happens between [[spoiler:Taneda and Meiko. Taneda says he's going for a walk but doesn't come home. Five days later, he calls and says he's coming back, but on the way he has an emotional breakdown, speeds into an intersection on his moped (implied to be intentionally), and has a fatal accident]].
* RockTrio: Rotti is one: Taneda (guitar/vocals), Kato (bass/vocals), Rip (drums).
* TheSlacker: Meiko and all her friends display varying degrees of thisattitude
attitude.
*SliceOfLife
SliceOfLife: The manga revolves around the various life struggles of the core cast of characters, with Meiko at the center and her relationship with Taneda, struggles with finding meaning in life, and the hijinks of Taneda's band forming the meat of the story.
* SpokenWordInMusic: An impromptu version happens when Taneda forgets the lyrics of a song during a live performance and decides to wing it with a rambling talk about exactly what's on his mind while the band continues playing the song.
* WaitingForABreak: Everyone in Rotti after they release their demo CD ''solanin''; unfortunately, their one opportunity would mean [[spoiler:becoming the backup band for an up-and-coming idol]] and Meiko turns down the offer on their behalf.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Rip]] has had a crush on Meiko for pretty much the entire time he's known her but has never acted on it, even after [[spoiler:Taneda's death]], seeming to be content with having her around as a friend and [[spoiler:bandmate]].
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The college music club is a post-secondary
* OfficeLady: Meiko is a (reluctant) one at the beginning of the
* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Rotti becomes this after Meiko joins. Near the end of the manga, a flashback to when Meiko was first meeting everyone reveals that she was apparently going to join the band as singer but decided to pass singing duties to Taneda and simply be a fan.
* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: A variant happens between [[spoiler:Taneda and Meiko. Taneda says he's going for a walk but doesn't come home. Five days later, he calls and says he's coming back, but on the way he has an emotional breakdown, speeds into an intersection on his moped (implied to be intentionally), and has a fatal accident]].
* RockTrio: Rotti is one: Taneda (guitar/vocals), Kato (bass/vocals), Rip (drums).
* TheSlacker: Meiko and all her friends display varying degrees of this
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* SpokenWordInMusic: An impromptu version happens when Taneda forgets the lyrics of a song during a live performance and decides to wing it with a rambling talk about exactly what's on his mind while the band continues playing the song.
* WaitingForABreak: Everyone in Rotti after they release their demo CD ''solanin''; unfortunately, their one opportunity would mean [[spoiler:becoming the backup band for an up-and-coming idol]] and Meiko turns down the offer on their behalf.
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