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“Transfer student Tsukiko becomes obsessed with classmate Aya after seeing her swim, then hallucinates fish everywhere.”
The Evening and the Sea
夜と海
6.89
11,378 rank · 5,151 readers · 59 favorites
School
Drama
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Transfer student Tsukiko becomes obsessed with classmate Aya after seeing her swim, then hallucinates fish everywhere.
Tsukiko Yano is a transfer student at a high school where she doesn't find anyone or anything interesting. That is, until one evening when she sees her classmate Aya Utsumi swimming in the school swimming pool. After that, she can't help but see fish swimming all around her. (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
6.0
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 7
σ 1.22
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.22 · some divergence
The polarity gap
2.7 pts
Recommenders 6.7 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Oct 2021 → Jul 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “(TLDR at the bottom) Honest to God here, it's been a long while since I've read this manga. Whilst I remember the overall theme of it, I cannot quite examine this as I would do with other stories...”
- 7 “This review will contain spoilers. "Even if a parting is inevitable, its not as if those memories would just disappear..." The central genres of this manga are Slice of Life and School-Drama, NOT...”
- 6 “I appreciate this more than I enjoyed this. It is trying to be something, something a little different to your typical 2 character manga. I'm not entirely sure it quite accomplishes it at a level...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 50%
Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 19 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 32m approx
- Published Mar 2017 – Apr 2021
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M48632 catalog