AI NO SANKA

Do you want to know something funny? The description of MAL emphasizes a single sentence for this manga, "for you, I would do anything", and the curious thing about this is that the one shot is based solely on this line of dialogue with some themes here and there to supposedly be something.

I tend to find very interesting works with approaches to war themes, being able to use it to create a powerful drama, representing the raw pain and cruelty of war and things like that, it is a package full of many possibilities.

When I saw this one shot, I was curious to see the construction of a romance over a future war, with one of the members of the couple being summoned to the army, a development in the face of something so tense that it disturbs the entire emotional structure of the couple. It's a different and interesting approach, it even crossed my mind that it could be well applied even in a one shot. But, from an interesting idea, something superficial, sticky and quite irrelevant came.

It's normal to see comments in front of many romance manga, things like "it's sticky", "it's superficial", "it's cliché/repetitive" I would say that these mangas are a pleasant walk in the park accompanied by a good vanilla ice cream cone next to this one one shot, because Ai no Sanka is composed of these defects on another level.

I can summon all these 3 reasons in a method used by one shot in an unimaginable way: Dialogues. The dialogues are horrendous, easily one of the worst I've ever read. The dialogues follow a pattern of conclusion that, regardless of what happens, one of the loved ones will say that he/she will protect and always love him/her... once said it was not enough? I mean, the first time was kinda cool, they say this stuff, kiss, a plane flies upon them and all. And the plane symbolizes the war is coming to one of them.

The characters are annoying and very boring, I can only say that because that's all the manga delivered. The empty conflicts of the daughter running away from her father and things like that are absurdly hurried, everything is hurried, I understand it's a one shot, but if you want to delve into something like that, extend it or use a better method. It still goes through my head that one shots are good for interpretive and/or contemplative things.

The art is ok, I have the feeling that the oldest art of manga is very thorough in quadrinization with good techniques and has a beautiful style, but here it is quite empty, like everything presented by the plot.

In the end, the war theme was a ladder for this very weak drama to make the reader create some empathy, but that ladder broke and the fall was hard, and there are those who see it, and there are those who see that such a fall was actually an incredible performance, it’s up to you to decide.

In the end, this one shot was a completely opposite approach to everything the war could be, being empty and without feelings.

And i didn't really get the ending, like, was that whole war thing something that hasn't actually happened? If that's the case, that's pretty bad, i mean, the whole thing was for nothing and nothing actually happened?

I understand who likes and finds a typical uncompromising romance that sometimes drinks from the source of repetitive proposals pleasant, but this one shot? We have a problem.