Shiroi Kumo

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Synonyms: White Clouds, Once Upon a Time, See You Next Time, Imp in the Night, Sakura Antique Store, Molehill, The Land of Dreams, Grape Harvest, Let's Go Home, The Story of a Flower, The Road Where Flowers Bloom, Egg Water, Hoppie's Bear, To a Certain Place

Japanese: しろいくも

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 1

Chapters: 14

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 30, 2004

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Serialization: Ikki

Authors: Iwaoka, Hisae (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.68¹ (scored by 1,979 users)

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Ranked: #1843²

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Popularity: #4691

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1. "Mukashi-mukashi" ("Once Upon a Time")
2. Mata Kondo ne (See You Next Time)
3. Koakuma to Yoru (Imp in the Night)
4. Kottouya Sakuradou (Sakura Antique Store)
5. Shiroi Kumo (White Clouds)
6. Hizumi no Oka (Molehill)
7. Yume no Kuni (The Land of Dreams)
8. Budou Tsumami (Grape Harvest)
9. Ouchi ni Kaerou (Let's Go Home)
10. Hana no Hanashi (The Story of a Flower)
11. Hana no Saku Michi (The Road Where Flowers Bloom)
12. Tamago no Mizu (Egg Water)
13. Hoppie's Bear
14. "Aru Tokoro e" ("To a Certain Place")

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Jan 8, 2023

silviepie

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This one shot is a 10/10 masterpiece. I clicked on White Clouds by complete accident and I can’t describe how glad I am to have read it. I know others have said it, but I simply can't think of another word to describe it besides amazing. White Clouds was simple but so touching and beautiful. Very few mangas can capture the realistic and down-to-earth feeling so elegantly. There are a handful of admittedly great series, but still, nothing comes close to the amount of emotion White Clouds pulls from me.

In 16 pages, it is the only manga to ever make me cry.

The story is delicate ...

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Jan 22, 2021

NextUniverse

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(TLDR Review at the bottom, as always, thanks for reading in advance.)

Going to answer some questions quickly. A lot of talking around this manga, at least here on MAL as of this post date, is based solely on the one chapter "Shiroi Kumo"/"White Clouds", from reviews telling you that, to discussions discussing on the one chapter. However, there are legitimately 14 chapters to be read.

Going to make this slightly short, and I will be referring to the entire manga as "White Clouds"

Stroy - 8
Art - 8
Character - 7
Enjoyment - 8
...

White Clouds is a manga that would undoubtedly fit the suitcase full of hidden gems. Not much attention to it though it is a piece that doesn't deserve to be brushed over. The manga revolves around surreal and quite dark natures of life. It genuinely feels like it has a sole purpose to simply leap into the human psyche, nature, ego, and just question or varnish the irrational actions of man all onto the page of a manga. One of the deepest things I have seen in a while. With the medium, be it manga or anime, also riding the horde that is the outlook of human life, White Clouds still manages to elevate its amplitude far up, it is no dime in a dozen. It also has a unique selling point. Ties in with its art, its collection of stories, and themes it tries to reach out or query. It does pretty well with the psychology grasping of us as people.

With all the stories of White Clouds, I think the logistics of the manga is one to not forget, as I have explained so with the story, the characters tail a path similar. Characters in this manga, however, tend to be more attentive to how we act, and how we shouldn't. As I went on with before about the surrealism and the dark natures. The hand-in-hand synergy between the story and the characters starring each seem to spring off an ironic realism regardless of what breaks what galactic convention. We have a real-life example of a story, and we have the people that react to it accordingly, and not accordingly. This may be true for pretty much every story you come across though Shiroi Kumo seems to have utilized this function in a much better way, showing the two sides of what is to be expected and what is not to be. Basically, some really well thought out characters.

Despite it being part of a horde of what the psychology, drama, fantasy, whatever you may call it genres offers, it is a manga that I would say is allowed to walk the red carpet, though chooses not to. As for how a hidden gem should be.

Art-wise is where I really thought that manga could emphasise everything before you could even read it. The first chapter "Once Upon a Time" radiates these eldritch particles for the atmosphere, setting up slightly more and less dark chapters for later on. Kinda like those dementia anime with complete neglection of logic and order, though White Clouds retains a remnant of the matter. The art comes off as quite child-like too as if it were a children's picture book, an art style I will never get tired of. Simple, and slightly illusive, to immerse into.

I really enjoyed the manga and I would certainly recommend it to anyone who comes along to read it. I have talked about psychological aspects are psychological, though I would say that there is the odd one chapter, namely "Hoppie's Bear" that is quite happy, it is one of my favourite chapters along with "Grape Picking/Harvesting". So there is a bit for everyone that White Clouds give. Quite short too, so if you are getting into manga or want something small to read. White Clouds is a great option to choose from.

Overall - 7.75 (8)

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Sep 19, 2008

Archaeon

Recommended

Preliminary (1/14 eps)

During my trawls through various manga on the internet I've managed to come across some absolute gems, both as series' and one-shots. Only a few have tempted me to actually want to write a review for them though, and only one manga (so far), has actually compelled me to write one.

That manga is White Clouds.

As some people have noticed, I like odd anime and manga (especially comedies). White Clouds manages to fulfill the odd part, but not in the way you'd expect.

The manga is the work of Hisae Iwaoka, and it adopts a very unusual art style which is more reminiscent of some surrealist western ...

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