La siguiente resea est en Espaol e Ingls traducida con el apoyo de DeepL La versin leda es la licenciada al espaol por Norma Editorial Como implica el nombre es una compilacin de One Shots que public Inio Asano en diferentes revistas y colaboraciones entre 2010 y 2018. Algunos cuentan con su propia entrada en este sitio en el que diferentes usuarios le han escrito su respectiva resea en este caso dedicar un par de prrafos a lo mucho a cada One Shot. No realizar una calificacin particular por historia la nota del volumen anexa a la resea puedes considerarla como un promedio que le doy a cada particular si no es esa nota es cercana sea superior o inferior. Bakemono Recchan El relato ms reconocido de la antologa a comparacin de cualquiera de los otros tiene ms reseas y comentarios. Su estilo se ubica en esa transicin del Asano de Punpun y de DDDD es decir personajes de aspectos realistas an dentro de su aspecto fantstico como la aludida Recchan mientras que el resto de alumnos son visualmente ms redondos con una considerable variedad de cuerpos en lnea con el segundo manga en ese momento en publicacin. Una historia de discrimacin y de reflexin sobre la hipocresa acerca del trato hacia otros donde se desdibuja la consideracin como personas para clasificarlos de entretenimiento. Es directo en su presentacin la misma Reechan no es interiorizada slo podemos entenderla por medio de las relaciones que tiene con los otros notando su alegra por socializar y el desconsuelo ante el resquebrajamiento siendo tan humana como cualquiera. Sin embargo la columna vertebral es su protagonista quien seala la hipocresa pese a que ella misma no termina de entenderse. Al final tambin se desmorona ante la sorpresa de no saber que responder ante el arrebato de genuinidad en quien es tan humana en su comportamiento pese a su extrao aspecto. 440https://i.ur.com/7YghcRj.png Funwari Otoko En realidad se refiere a 3 One Shots en todos ocurre exactamente lo mismo la diferencia es el narrador de la situacin en principio es uno omnisciente que nicamente describe los aparentes hechos luego es la chica y el tercero es el chico. Conociendo el autor e inclusive dentro de esta misma compilacin sorprende el tono de la historia es una situacin cmica romntica sin nada que ocultar o intuir es exactamente lo que parece un encuentro tontorrn y dulce. Su mayor punto de inters es contrastar los diferentes pensamientos segn sea quin est narrando la historia ms tampoco son enrevesados nuevamente es sencilla slo produce una sonrisa de complicidad del lector. Entonces podra parecer no tener nada de especial pero precisamente al ser de Asano recordaremos aquella vez que escribi desde la pura inocencia. Toshinose Publicado en una compilacin sobre el tabaco quin en este caso representa un mundo adulto para la impaciente adolescente de un pueblo. Tokyo es prcticamente otro pas y su to es la nica conexin con ese aire de globalidad. Es un relato sencillo de un amor adolescente que slo puede ocurrir en esa transicin en que todava se est fascinado en lo desconocido sin pensar en lo que actualmente se tiene. Y para haber sido un relato en un volumen de cigarrillos estos aparecen slo una vez aunque precisamente con un autntico valor emocional que ratifica su protagonismo es una comunin entre la despedida de un amor pasado y del compromiso futuro. 440https://i.ur.com/8JWClOb.png Yuugatou El One Shot ms cnico de la compilacin nicamente hay desesperacin y desencanto en sus dilogos sea en el escape de lo rural donde slo estn recuerdos de una familia disfuncional la ciudad de destino que engulle al incauto una figura masculina obtusa e inferida de peligrosa en contraste a la protagonista desganada y sin aspiraciones al punto que cualquier alternativa le parece mejor con tal de no enfrentarse a la incertidumbre. Su presentacin reafirma estos sentimientos la mayora transcurre en la carretera en la que Asano realiza nfasis en las luces de los carros creando curvas de luces extraas y atractivas para cuando es el amanecer es dnde el hechizo ha terminado y la chica debe enfrentarse a lo nico que puede identificar ella misma. D Corto relato sobre una pareja escolar en proceso de separacin ms por la inminente entrada en la adultez que por diferencias entre los dos y la representacin de esa necesidad de crecimiento es la separacin con un traste de la infancia objeto de cario entre ambos. Una temtica recurrente en Asano destilada en los elementos principales para su limitada duracin. Se refleja la experticia en sus pocos dilogos contundentes sin pice de pretencioso para dar con esa melancola de las cosas que no podrn volvern a ser aunque se quiera. 440https://i.ur.com/53RE4gq.png Sayonara Byebye Es una historia de hermanos despus de haber convivido todo el tiempo ahora cada quien debe asumir nuevas responsabilidades teniendo en comn deberes conjuntos es decir el cuidado de su madre. Se le da bien la construccin a Asano de historias de hermandad dicho por l al tener una hermana mayor y este One Shot es precisamente la reafirmacin sobre el hecho. An cuando al comienzo la narracin parece inclinarse hacia ser indulgente con una seccin se desenvuelve para presentar que slo es la inesperada carga de enfrentar responsabilidades mientras se asume una nueva compaa o estar solos. La conversacin trivial del medio slo es para realizar eco de lo que viven de forma inmediata y resulta familiar para quien tenga una relacin cercana del mismo estilo en las frases de felicitacin disfrazadas de indiferencia sea por orgullo o pena. Tempest Mi One Shot preferido de la compilacin. Pese a que la obra de Asano hasta ese punto se desarrollaba en un marco realista no haba presentado a la vejez en primer plano irnico considerando que sus sensibilidades podan capturar perfectamente a los dilemas de la tercera edad y este relato confirma esa presuncin. Su presentacin de un mundo distpico pero bastante aterrizado se debe a la crisis real del envejecimiento en Japn en contraste a la cada de la tasa de natalidad sin saber como revertir la situacin de forma plausible. Sus personajes envejecidos si pueden permitirse su melancola cinismo y pesimismo dada la irreversible situacin en que se encuentran sumado a la cantidad de aos en que han vivido. Es una historia muy compacta y slida su diseo de personajes es de la vertiente realista de Inio tiene geniales paneles en que aprovecha a la abrumadora ciudad para disminuir los dilemas de los personajes en contraste de la sociedad con un potente giro final narrativo acompaado de una perfecta presentacin visual. Seguramente con el tiempo y la todava vigente duda de que va a realizar como nacin Japn se le mencionar todava ms a este relato. 440https://i.ur.com/rBvIn12.png Natsu no Nioi wa Mahou Shoujo wo Nido Korosu Nuevamente el paso del tiempo que es contrastado en su percepcin entre la ciudad y el pueblo el primero viendo un encanto extico en el segundo una especie de escape sin consecuencias mientras que los habitantes del poblado se sienten atrapados en una realidad casi cclica. As es la pareja protagnica l casado queriendo pasar un tiempo a solas sin responsabilidades an a costa de ella quien le envidia a la vez que le extraa no sabe si a l o al recuerdo que tena de l. Pese a que ocupa nicamente un par de paneles an as quera destacar la presentacin del elemento aludido en el ttulo el factor Otaku siendo un escape y recordatorio de tiempos mejores y la promesa de un futuro an si al siguiente da nicamente sigue la conocida rutina. Himawari Bastante similar a la previa en contexto difiriendo en sentimiento de quien ha vuelto aqu predomina el fracaso y la decepcin quien se aventur a escapar para luego volver por no haber sido capaz de domar a la bestia. Se le enfrenta con quien todava qued ella consciente de s misma y que le puntualiza sus numerosas manas a las que se ha encerrado para no enfrentarse al resto. Su presentacin est ms cercana a los anteriores One Shots y de Oyasumi Punpun con los paneles en presentacin del vaco del protagonista y sus obsesiones. Es un relato palpable de rabia y decepcin sin nadie evidente a quien culpar ms all de su debilidad de no sobreponerse a su situacin. 440https://i.ur.com/3H2nYhB.png Kinoko Takenoko El ttulo es una referencia a casi lo mismo me refiero a la batalla entre dos de los snacks ms populares en Japn el Kinoko y el Takenoko puedes buscarlo tal cul en Youtube si no ests al corriente. Asano lo reimagina en un enfoque blico entre dos naciones con unos cuntos toques fantsticos en su presentacin realista la combinacin entre ambos produce paneles singularmente geniales nos resultan conocidos dado a nuestra costumbre a fotografa de guerra a la par de extraos por los pequeos toques aqu y all en correspondencia a su singular ambientacin. Es especialmente destacable porque podemos considerarlo una transicin de su estilo los personajes son ms ovalados y moe por asignarles un trmino en contraste con los fondos de abundante detalle y por supuesto el aspecto fantstico. Fue publicado a finales de 2013 perfectamente entendible cuando sabemos que el ao siguiente Asano comenzara su siguiente gran proyecto: Dead Dead Demons Dededededestruction. Itoshi no Kengo Publicado en una compilacin homenaje a Kengo Hanezawa mangaka seinen reconocido sobre todo por Boys on the Run y I Am a Hero. Apenas dura dos pginas en ellas Inio se autoinserta como una Manga Groupie quien tiene una fugaz relacin con el autor no hay nada destacable excepto imaginarme cmo era la expresin que deba tener Kengo al leer el Fan Fiction de Asano. 440https://i.ur.com/06ys7qv.png English As the name implies it is a compilation of One Shots published by Inio Asano in different magazines and collaborations between 2010 and 2018. Some of them have their own entry in this site in which different users have written their respective reviews in this case I will dedicate a couple of paragraphs at most to each One Shot. I will not make a particular rating per story the note of the volume attached to the review you can consider it as an average that I give to each particular if it is not that note is close is higher or lower. Bakemono Recchan The most recognized story of the anthology compared to any of the others has more reviews and comments. Its style is located in that transition from the Asano of Punpun and DDDD that is characters with realistic aspects even within its fantastic aspect as the aforementioned Recchan while the rest of the students are visually more rounded with a considerable variety of bodies in line with the second manga at that time in publication. A story of discrimination and reflection on hypocrisy about the treatment of others where consideration as people is blurred to classify them as entertainment. It is direct in its presentation Reechan herself is not internalized we can only understand her through the relationships she has with others noting her joy in socializing and disconsolation in the face of brokenness being as human as anyone else. However the backbone is her protagonist who points out the hypocrisy even though she herself does not quite understand it. In the end she also crumbles in the surprise of not knowing how to respond to the outburst of genuineness in someone who is so human in her behavior despite her strange appearance. Funwari Otoko Actually it refers to 3 One Shots in all of them exactly the same thing happens the difference is the narrator of the situation at first it is an omniscient one who only describes the apparent facts then it is the girl and the third one is the boy. Knowing the author and even within this same compilation the tone of the story is surprising it is a romantic comic situation with nothing to hide or intuit it is exactly what it seems a goofy and sweet encounter. Its main point of interest is to contrast the different thoughts depending on who is narrating the story but they are not convoluted either again it is simple it just produces a smile of complicity from the reader. So it might not seem to have anything special but precisely because it is Asanos we will remember that time when he wrote from pure innocence. 440https://i.ur.com/L0cr8ym.png Toshinose Published in a compilation about tobacco who in this case represents an adult world for the impatient teenage girl from a small town. Tokyo is practically another country and her uncle is the only connection to that air of globality. Its a simple tale of a teenage love that can only happen in that transition when youre still fascinated in the unknown not thinking about what you currently have. And to have been a story in a volume of cigarettes these appear only once although precisely with an authentic emotional value that ratifies its protagonism it is a communion between the farewell of a past love and the future commitment. Yuugatou The most cynical One Shot of the compilation there is only despair and disenchantment in his dialogues whether in the escape from the rural where there are only memories of a dysfunctional family the city of destiny that engulfs the unwary an obtuse and inferred dangerous male figure in contrast to the protagonist listless and without aspirations to the point that any alternative seems better as long as she does not face uncertainty. Her presentation reaffirms these feelings most of it takes place on the road in which Asano emphasizes the lights of the cars creating curves of strange and attractive lights by the time it is dawn the spell is over and the girl must face the only thing she can identify herself. 440https://i.ur.com/nYs1LHN.png D Short story about a school couple in the process of separation more due to the imminent entry into adulthood than due to differences between the two and the representation of this need for growth is the separation with a childhood fret object of affection between the two. A recurring theme in Asano distilled in the main elements for its limited duration. The expertise is reflected in his few dialogues forceful without being pretentious to give that melancholy of the things that will not be able to be again even if you want them to be. Sayonara Byebye It is a story of siblings after having lived together all the time now each one must assume new responsibilities having in common joint duties that is the care of their mother. Asano is good at constructing stories of sisterhood said by him to have an older sister and this One Shot is precisely the reaffirmation of that fact. Even when at first the narrative seems to lean toward being indulgent to a section it unravels to present that its just the unexpected burden of facing responsibilities while taking on new company or being alone. The trivial conversation in the middle is only to echo what they immediately experience and is familiar to anyone who has a close relationship of the same style in the congratulatory phrases disguised as indifference whether out of pride or pity. 440https://i.ur.com/MsO1r5f.png Tempest My favorite One Shot of the compilation. Although Asanos work up to that point was set in a realistic framework he had not presented old age in the foreground ironic considering that his sensibilities could perfectly capture the dilemmas of old age and this story confirms that assumption. His presentation of a dystopian but quite grounded world is due to the real crisis of aging in Japan in contrast to the falling birth rate without knowing how to plausibly reverse the situation. Its aging characters can afford their melancholy cynicism and pessimism given the irreversible situation they find themselves in added to the number of years they have lived. It is a very compact and solid story its character design is of Inios realistic side it has great panels in which he takes advantage of the overwhelming city to diminish the dilemmas of the characters in contrast to society with a powerful final narrative twist accompanied by a perfect visual presentation. Surely with time and the still lingering doubt of what Japan will accomplish as a nation this story will be mentioned even more. Natsu no Nioi wa Mahou Shoujo wo Nido Korosu Again the passage of time is contrasted in its perception between the city and the village the former seeing an exotic charm in the latter a kind of escape without consequences while the inhabitants of the village feel trapped in an almost cyclical reality. So is the protagonist couple he married and wanting to spend some time alone without responsibilities even at the expense of her who envies him and misses him she does not know if it is him or the memory she had of him. Although it occupies only a couple of panels I still wanted to highlight the presentation of the element alluded to in the title the Otaku factor being an escape and reminder of better times and the promise of a future even if the next day only follows the familiar routine. 440https://i.ur.com/4LFjUEC.png Himawari Quite similar to the previous one in context differing in the feeling of who has returned here the failure and disappointment predominates who ventured to escape and then return for not having been able to tame the beast. He is confronted with the one who is still left she who is aware of herself and who points out his numerous manias to which he has locked herself up so as not to face the rest. Her presentation is closer to the previous One Shots and to Oyasumi Punpun with the panels presenting the protagonists emptiness and his obsessions. It is a palpable tale of rage and disappointment with no one obvious to blame beyond his weakness in not overcoming his situation. Kinoko Takenoko The title is a reference to almost the same thing I mean the battle between two of the most popular snacks in Japan the Kinoko and Takenoko you can look it up on Youtube if you are not aware of it. Asano reimagines it in a warlike approach between two nations with a few fantastic touches in its realistic presentation the combination between the two produces uniquely cool panels they are familiar to us given our habit to war photography as well as strange for the little touches here and there in correspondence to its unique setting. It is especially noteworthy because we can consider it a transition of their style the characters are more oval and moe to assign them a term in contrast to the richly detailed backgrounds and of course the fantastic look. It was released at the end of 2013 perfectly understandable when we know that the following year Asano would start his next big project: Dead Dead Demons Dedededestruction. 440https://i.ur.com/3KJJNES.png Itoshi no Kengo Published in a tribute compilation to Kengo Hanezawa a seinen mangaka best known for Boys on the Run and I Am a Hero. Barely two pages long in which Inio inserts herself as a Manga Groupie who has a fleeting relationship with the author there is nothing remarkable except to imagine what Kengos expression must have looked like when reading Asanos Fan Fiction.