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“After divorce, Ann moves to rural Shimane, struggles with kindness, then finds she needs it after tragedy.”
Sand Chronicles
砂時計
8.01
813 rank · 17,571 readers · 419 favorites
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Synopsis
After divorce, Ann moves to rural Shimane, struggles with kindness, then finds she needs it after tragedy.
After her parents get divorced, Ann Uekusa and her mother move from Tokyo to rural Shimane. Accustomed to the anonymity of city living, Ann can't get used to the almost overbearing kindness of the people in her mother's hometown. But when personal tragedy strikes, Ann discovers how much she needs that kindness. (Source: Back Manga Cover/ANN) Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vols. 1-3)
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Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 11 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 7
σ 1.48
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.48 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Mar 2008 → Mar 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Sand Chronicles is a realistic manga about love, relationships and about being abandoned. Sand Chronicles is about girl called Ann she lives in a place called Shimane when her mother kills herself...”
- 10 “Daaaaamn! If you are reading this review, don't waste any more time and just get reading, chapters are about 90 pages each, some around 120 pages. Funny and lovely, poetic and melancholic, silly...”
- 10 “This manga brings you through the lives of four children. While reading, you can almost feel the emotions that the characters are feeling. This manga isn't a lovey-dovey manga where everything just...”
Verbosity
Short · 36%
Medium · 36%
Long · 27%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 21 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 48m approx
- Published Aug 2003 – Aug 2006
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1357 catalog