あかね噺 1
Natively: Level 29
Summary (from Wikipedia)
Growing up, Akane admired her father and his rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of storytelling where a lone performer, called a rakugoka, depicts a long, complicated, and usually funny story involving multiple characters, who are distinguished by changes in pitch, tone, slight turns of the head, and hand movements, all while sitting in place. But when she was in elementary school, her father and all the other applicants were expelled from the Arakawa School during the promotional test to obtain rakugo’s third and highest rank of shin’uchi. Six years later, Akane, who had been secretly receiving lessons from her father’s former master, sets out to become a shin’uchi of the Arakawa School to avenge her father and prove rakugo is a legitimate profession.
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Personal Opinion
I think rakugo is a traditional Japanese art that’s not that well known in the west. I want to learn more about rakugo and I think this manga is an interesting way to learn more. It has also been translated to English.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- High rating on Natively
- A chance to learn about a piece of Japanese culture that’s not that well known in the west.
- Furigana
Cons
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