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Hello BSS! I rarely post here, but this is a recommendation that I feel I am duty-bound to make: Sumire 16-Sai!  It's about a cute, energetic high school girl who goes around the school helping students solve their daily problems. ... Except she happens to be a puppet controlled by a middle-aged ventriloquist of whom everybody (except the teachers and principal) are plainly aware! It's the very epitome of a premise that makes you go "What the hell?! Why am I reading this?!" except that by the end, when it stirs your feelings and plucks at the heartstrings, you wonder "-- and why is it so good?!"
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Popular Thug Drink posted:Wow, Sumire was really good. Yeah, I think this gets at the heart of what the manga is about. You can really see what you said about "the more you get to know 'her' the more you accept her as her stated identity", in the moments when the puppet loses the mouth-lines and doll-eyes and turns into a regular person. That's what's happening when people start to accept Sumire as a "real" person. What's really great is how that plays into the ending where the old man is allowed to express himself honestly in their reunion panel.
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May 26, 2014 16:12
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