Botabota

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Des alternatives: Synonyms: Bota Bota
Japanese: ボタボタ
Auteur: Itagaki, Paru
Taper: Manga
Volumes: 1
Statut: Finished
Publier: 2020-12-25 to 2021-02-19
Sérialisation: Manga Goraku

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Des alternatives: Synonyms: Bota Bota
Japanese: ボタボタ
Auteur: Itagaki, Paru
Taper: Manga
Volumes: 1
Statut: Finished
Publier: 2020-12-25 to 2021-02-19
Sérialisation: Manga Goraku
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Mako Higari is an ordinary woman who works in a food container factory. She has a reputation of sleeping with every man she works with. However, she harbors a dirty little secret...

(Source: MU)
Mots clés
comedy
drama
seinen
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Skycrafter1
Apr 10, 2021
As somebody who absolutely loves Paru Itagaki and everything she writes, I was overall pretty stoked about this manga! I think that Itagaki had some interesting things she wanted to say with this manga, so let's get into it.

Story: 8/10
Sadly, this story was not as strong as Itagaki's other mangas, but I loved how bizarre and surreal it was. I think Paru's goal with this story was to show that not everything in relationships is all black and white. Some people need different things, and overall that's what makes relationships and love beautiful. I think this message got bogged down a bit with Paru attempting to explain the MC's condition and how it worked, and I think this story may have been written on the fly. Regardless, for something as short as it is, BotaBota is a ride and is worth reading.
Art: 10/10
What can I say, I'm a bit bias. I love Itagaki's art style and I love how she draws people. You can tell she's a bit out of her comfort zone considering she had been writing Beastars for years before she wrote this. Paru tends to go for very stylized illustrations, and overall I think her art style is put to work well here. As always, the paneling and how everything flows together is spectacular. (This is one of Itagaki's strengths for sure.)
Character 8/10
This story follows a woman who has a condition that causes her nose to bleed life-threatening amounts when she touches something dirty. Itagaki goes into how this has affected her life and her mental state. I think she does this fairly well, although she's done psychological stories a lot better in the past. Not bad for sure, but it could've been done even stronger. I am not going to be too critical about this since this was a very short manga that didn't appear to be Itagaki's main focus at the time.
Enjoyment: 10/10
What can I say, it was a fun read!
Overall: 9/10 I think this story was fun and surreal, but a bit bogged down by blurry messaging. I can tell what Itagaki was going for, but it didn't tie up right in the end. Overall not a bad story and worth your time In my opinion. :)
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Simply_Waiting12
Apr 10, 2021
Bota Bota is a story that intrigued me with it's surrealism in it's main protagonist, while still remaining with realism in it's other subjects and themes.

The story is simple, yet it opens a lot of opportunities for situations and events. Mako (the main protagonist) suffers from condition, that doesn't let her touch filthy things, without making her bleed big masses of blood. Because of this illness, she haves problems with her love life and finding a soul mate. Every chapter follows the same formula: She encounters a man, tries to get close to him but fails miserably because of her sickness.
You'd think that when every chapter haves this formula thing are going to repetitive. Every chapter is well done, and there nothing repeats. The theme in the chapters, the new characters, the situations are always different and things always play out different. You see Mako's way of thinking, her old memories of her mother, the struggles she haves because of her condition. The characters react realistically, and it shows that Paru Itagaki (the writer and artist) really put a lot of thought while making this manga.
Still, not everything in the manga is perfect. The first chapter wasn't a very good introduction.
Mako is introduced in a very wrong light -  she is scary, her actions are very forced and she tried to boil someone's rooster, while in the next chapters she is more soft and not so pushy. I'm not sure if Paru wanted the readers to get the wrong idea for Mako on porpose, or she was still experimenting with her.

The characters feel as if they're real people.
When Mako understood that a man doesn't have love feeling for her, she isn't trying to change him or his opinion. She aknoweges his feelings.
The minor characters she encounters are all different from looks to characteristics.
Even if the first chapter was flawed, the manga haves enough time to fix it's mistakes.
It had well done plot twists, unexpected ending and mature well handled themes.

Still, this manga may not be for anybody, since it can be a little bit too grusome at times or some people may not like the main idea of the plot.
This manga is worth reading if you're Paru Itagaki's manga fan, like shorter manga or you preffer something more differend.
But be aware that it's not for anybody.