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solanin

Will Meiko find her place in the world, or will the world force her to fit?

Created by Inio Asano | MoreLess about solanin

Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn’t pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she’s just not cut out to be a part of the real world.

Inio Asano, a bona fide earthling, was born in Ibaraki, Japan, in 1980. In 2001, his short story “Uchu kara Konnichiwa” (Hello from Outer Space) won the first Sunday GX Rookie Prize. Later GX published his series Subarashii Sekai, available in English from VIZ Media as What a Wonderful World! His series solanin, Goodnight Punpun and Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction are also available from VIZ Media. Other works by Asano include Hikari no Machi (City of Light), Nijigahara Holograph, and Umibe no Onna no Ko (A Girl on the Shore).

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solanin: an epilogue

In a split second, everything changed for Meiko Inoue.

But time continues to unfurl, whether we like it or not.

Now, ten years later…

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