The focus is on the journey of their adventure: exploring new areas and meeting interesting and often cute characters rather than a deep intriguing story. It's definitely not an outstanding story, but it has no need for that. At every new location, they obtain information in the form of a backstory or explanations of how things work there. Every step to take is logically explained and only feels more magical combined with the extraordinary artwork. Although it sounds repetitive from this review, it doesn't feel that way. The artwork is not the only good point about the manga. A life is not someting to take lightly, wether it be a human or a rabbit like creature. But, as said, I did not expect that, which added weight to it. This implies murder and it indeed happens at some point. One of which is the war between humans and fantasy characters. Feeling like such a child friendly manga, the setting still asks for more serious themes. If we had a library even remotely looking like that, I could read books all day there.Įven though I say this now, there have been a few serious moments that caught me off guard. I found myself in a trance looking at some of the pages. Every single detail is nicely drawn and only adds to the wornderful atmosphere. If anything, it makes me want to live in the world illustrated here. Truly, I've read my fair share of manga, a couple of which had amazing artwork, but nothing comes close to Somalo to Mori no Kamisama. Therefore keeping quiet about the fact that Somali is a human, they travel through amazing places with luscious fruits, soothing lights, antique houses and wonderful details in a perfectly illustrated cheerful world. Because of this, they are still at bad terms with humans. What started with stones on a small personal scale slowly erupted in a large war.

An initial meeting went peacefully, until some humans mistrusted the demihumans and started attacking them. Looking for hints, they meet many interesting animals, witches and other fantasy characters, most of which act more mature than humans, who are nearly eradicated after a long fight with the fantasy characters. After having protected the forest for many centuries, he sets out with the girl to find her parents. reasons until the guardian of the forest - a golem - finds her. A young girl named Somali is shackled and left alone in a forest for unknown At every point, you stumble across another hint for the final destination of your quest. The story is simple in its design and it slowly develops like an rpg.

And the artwork perfectly adds to that feeling. If I had to describe this manga in one word, it would be: Soothing.Ī simple slice of life anime or manga is something to watch or read while not concentrating. This is my first review here on MAL, so feedback would be appreciated.^^

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