Sora ga Haiiro dakara

Edit

What would you like to edit?

SynopsisBackgroundAlternative TitlesPictureChapters/VolumesPublishing DatesRelationsTypeExternal Links  

Here now, I decide to leave my mark in MAL Internet history. On a manga that most people have definitely not heard about before.

Sora Ga Haiiro Dakara (Because the Sky is Gray) is manga that follows a “Monster of the Week” format. Featuring a collection of short stories that are all unique and never the same. Each story is different in the emotions it conveys, the characters there are, and the actual story it sets to tell.

The stories that Sora ga Haiiro Dakara tells at first would give off the appearance or feeling of being cliche and simple. Yet they are unexpectedly realistic ... and mentally complicated. Whenever others mention this manga in any way. They might say that the stories are dark, harsh, and overwhelmingly negative. However there is a better way to describe it.
Life is full of positives and negatives, we as humans live with regrets and sometimes we learn to just move on.
The stories that are being told in Sora Ga Haiiro Dakara are awfully relatable. They’re just normal stories as if someone was telling someone else that story in a conversation. Thus I do not see it as negative or dark but as real instead and one must give credit to the writing for that.

The writing is what makes these stories far from simple. The author does nothing short of an excellent job of writing each and every single character out. Most characters in the way they talk, think, and react, are very real and authentic. This manages to make the characters that are usually always someone different, relatable to the reader. Sometimes the reader may understand the characters' frustration, their emotions. Because the reader was maybe once in their situation, or could still be. This helps the reader to connect, understand, and appreciate the story being told.
Most of the stories shocked me with how down to earth they were. The stories are heavily based on reality and situations that may happen to people in their own lives. Usually they don’t rely on fantasy elements but there is the occasional story like that every now and then. Life can’t always go the way we want it to, we all have our own small problems and moments. The author understands this and adds that element to the stories, as if they lived through it all themselves. It was all done remarkably well.
There are a few characters and moments that may be over-exaggerated just a bit in typical manga style. However these tend to hardly get in the way. Usually they don’t hurt the story either, and they might occasionally add a bit of a comedy element to it sometimes depending on the reader's humor.
So the author manages to EXPLAIN emotions awfully well, what about showing?

Art style can be very crucial and important in any manga. Although it’s difficult to mess up, it can easily go wrong. With that said, the author, who is also the artist, does an excellent job. Sometimes the characters' emotions are shown in a very special and specific way using art. Displaying how they may feel exactly, or to further illustrate their feelings that may be obvious to the reader. The art truly may come off as simple at first, but there will be moments where the art will catch the reader off guard. It’s nice to look at and it really gets you thinking about the feelings that the characters are having.

In a manga where we never meet the same character more than three times at least. It can be pretty important that we never feel bored with the characters, or think that the author is being lazy and lacking creativity. With that said, Sora ga Haiiro Dakara does a great job at making every character feel unique, individual, and different from each other. It’s a very small detail that really goes the distance and helps to make every chapter interesting. The reader may have a hard time trying to find anyone that looks exactly the same.
Of course the writing is what majorly helps this too. A lot of characters are unique in terms of personality. This was briefly mentioned earlier. Characters speak differently and have their own thoughts. Some of them are meant to be quiet, loud, and stereotypical. It’s someone new, different in a small way and never the same, like us humans. The art helps to push that. While some personalities and characters aren’t that fleshed out, this is mainly because they’re not the main focus of the story being told, thus they don’t have much dialogue. Background characters if that’s what they’re meant to be.

In the end, Sora Ga Haiiro Dakara manages to be strange, real, and so genuine. I loved it, and enjoyed my time reading it.
However after everything, there will always be someone with a different opinion, and just not think the same way that I or others do. This is definitely a manga that may not be a hit with everyone. If anything that I mentioned sounds even the slightest bit interesting to you, then please, give this manga a shot.

9/10