

There's a near collision, but as she shifts her angle and glides past another undine, the moving water and the glistening sunshine lend a magical gracefulness to the moment. Offered the chance, Akiri enthusiastically takes the oar and begins propellings the boat too quickly. The courier takes the opportunity presented by a charming newcomer leaping onto his boat to show Akiri around a city which has just the right amount of wear to make the exotic locale cozy. What happens next could be called a "chase", but in fact in captures the pacific nature of the manga.Īkiri leaps after the cat, then apologizes to the smiling middle age mailman rowing the gondola. The "Mars Cat" munches on some sea food, puts on Akiri's backpack and leaps off a ledge onto a gondola. When Akiri lands on Aqua, she immediately encounters a cat the size of a small child, wearing an ascot. And, in theory, the character has put in sweat equity to prepare for this, she continues to work hard as an apprentice, and she does acquire a "rival", but from the start, the occupational progress is all pleasant and well intentioned.

To follow the typical manga line of thought, Akari would have to scrape and bleed to obtain that position, earning rivals and enemies along the way. A young girl named Akari Mizunashi leaves Manhome (nee Earth) for the city of Neo-Venezia, where she hopes to land a job as an undine gondolier. In this case, Mars has been terraformed and flooded to the extent that the planet becomes known as Aqua. a sci-fi vision of the future in which humans can live, simple, aesthetically pleasing lives. The intension is to relax and decrompress for the span of a few comic pages. Kazue Amano's Aqua is the sequential art equivalent of a deep, peaceful breath. Column by Scott Green Manga Spotlight: Aqua
