Thank you so much to Netgalley and the publisher for the e-arc. Suzume is one of my all time favorite anime movies, it is visually stunning, greatly weird and funny and has some beautiful messages. When I saw it was getting a manga adaptation I had to relive this journey in new format!
We follow Suzume who one day stumbles upon a portal to another dimension that is leaking out into our world. She sees a very cute cat totem and cute guy trying to close it. She helps him out, the totem turns into an actual cat and leaves leaving the situation unbalanced and turns the boy into a memorable childhood chair.
This leaves it up to Suzume to follow the cat and continue closing these doors that it keeps opening, protecting the world from natural disaster.
While I still prefer the movie because its a visual masterpiece I highly enjoyed the manga adaptation and can recommend it to people who like quirky stories with high stakes!

I loved it! I can't wait to read the rest and find out what happens and why Suzume can see the doors and everything else.

The plot is well developed and the characters are fantastic. The drawings are evocative and make you feel like you are right there with the characters.

I devoured the while thing and I can't wait to read more!


Link to review coming soon

Thank you NetGalley and the author for a copy of this manga.

I watched Suzume and it was very captivating. Getting to read the manga is an entirely different experience. You get to take in the story at your own pace. The art style is cute, although not my favorite. Book 1 is pretty much identical to the beginning of the movie. Love it!

Freak! It was BEAUTIFUL!
It's funny, the story is soo original and the drawings are PERFECT!🪑🏞️🚪🐈‍⬛


Thank you Netgalley, Makoto Shinkai and Denki Amashima for this amazing read!!
Literally CAN'T WAIT for volume 2 🩵

Suzume had an interesting story and stunning artwork. The manga follows the first parts of the film pretty closely so if you enjoyed the movie you will likely enjoy this. Looking forward to reading more of the series. My one criticism would be that I wish there was a bit more than there was in the film but other than that the manga is great.

A great adaption from the movie, it was able to capture the moments perfectly that were drawn and reflected on the big screen to manga form

Enjoyed this first volume and the art was perfect for it. I just hope it doesn't become a weird age-gap relationship going forward given this involves a minor.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an e-arc of Suzume Vol 1.

I saw the film when it was out in cinema and loved it! I as planning to pick up the manga regardless, so when I saw it available on NetGalley it was a no brainer.

The manga follows the first part of the film where Suzume meets Souta and discovers the door, the keystone and learns about closers. This chance encounter on her way to school leads her on a wild chase with Souta (now cursed to take the form of her childhood chair) for Daijin the keystone. It is such a bizarre but heart warming journey of processing grief, loneliness and inner strength.

With anime series or films that I love, I will generally try to read the manga to see if there are any other little details that maybe got missed or weren't as obvious. At the moment, this is pretty faithful but I am hoping for more depth and detail in the later volumes which I will definitely be picking up.

I found this fascinating. There was so much going on that it kept my interest the whole way and I will definitely seek out future volumes. The story is engrossing, the characters are intriguing, and the paranormal aspect has me hooked.

The art is lovely. The premise is intriguing. (I really want to know more.) Plus, the guy turned into a sentient chair really caught my attention.

I am concerned there might be a forthcoming bit of an age gap romance, but hopefully, the MC will mature a bit.

This is the manga adaptation of the animated film of the same name by Makoto Shinkai. Shinkai makes the movie, then the novel, and then the manga, haha. The story has a very nice background that has to do with overcoming pain after a catastrophic loss, the only drawback is that this is the first of three volumes that complete the story. I haven't seen the movie, but after this I'm going to look it up.

What is it about? Suzume is a junior high school girl who was orphaned after an earthquake and is raised by her aunt. One day on the way to school she meets a young man who catches her attention and who tells her that he is looking for a door in an abandoned place. Suzume points him to an old abandoned tourist site, and then she regrets it because the ruins can be dangerous, so when she goes to look for him, her adventure begin.

The famous door is a portal to another world that has to do with a 'worm' that represents the force of the earth that causes earthquakes. And the young man is a 'door closer' named Souta.

Soon this turns into a road-trip, and a coming-on-age, in search of a cat that turns Souta into a chair (this is a very good device on Makoto Shinkai's part to avoid turning the story into a romance ), so between humor and meeting people on their trip, the story is unraveled through a Japan of forgotten places, seeking in a sense to exorcise ghosts and as a tribute to those who have suffered great losses in natural tragedies.

On the other hand, Daijin the cat is a little god of chaos who leaves little crumbs (aka images of his path on social media), signaling that myth and technology coexist in modern Japan.

We will have to wait for the next volumes.

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Esta es la adaptación manga del filme animado del mismo nombre de Makoto Shinkai. Shinkai hace la peli, después la novela y luego el manga, jaja. La historia tiene una trasfondo muy lindo que tiene que ver con superar el dolor después de una pérdida catastrófica, la única pega es que este el primer tomo de tres que completan la historia. No he visto la película, pero después de esto voy a buscarla.

¿De qué va? Suzume es una chica de junior high school que quedó huérfana después de un terremoto y es criada por su tia, un dia camino al colegio se cruza con j0ven que le llama la atención y quien le dice que anda buscando una puerta en un sitio abandonado, Suzume le indica un viejo sitio turístico abandonado, y luego se arrepiente porque las ruinas pueden ser peligrosas, al ir a buscarlo empiezan sus aventuras.

La famosa puerta es un portal a otro mundo que tiene que ver con un 'gusano' que representa la fuerza de la tierra que provoca los sismos. Y el joven es un cierra puertas llamado Souta.

Pronto esto se convierte en un road-trip , y un coming-on-age, en busca de un gato que convierte a Souta en una silla (este es un recurso muy bueno de parte de Makoto Shinkai para evitar convertir la historia en un romance), asi que entre humor y conocer personas en su viaje se va desentrañando la historia por un Japón de lugares olvidados buscando en cierto sentido exorcisar fantasmas y como un homenaje a quienes han sufrido grandes perdidas en las tragedias naturales.

Por otra parte, Daijin, el gato, es un pequeño dios del caos que deja pequeñas migajas (también conocidas como imágenes de su camino en las redes sociales), por lo señla que el mito y la tecnología coexisten en el Japón moderno.


Habrá que esperar los siguientes tomos.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an e-copy of this manga!
I think this was alright. I wasn't really a fan of the artwork. I just felt like the faces looked kind of weird. I feel like if you've watched the film, the manga doesn't really add much to the story. That said though, this would be a good option if you don't have access to the anime.

"except in my dreams, there's a happy ending"

I loooooved the movie, so it's really fun reading it in manga form now! Super fast-paced, unpredictable, strangely adorable interactions, great mystery, it's so gooooood

I really liked this! I thought the story followed the movie very well and I am excited for the next editions. I could see how maybe people who haven't seen the movie wouldn't love this as much. Like how in the movie the visuals were just more detailed and even the plot itself had more detail, though that just goes with the format of the story. Overall, I think this is a really cool extra thing for people who loves the movie.

I loved this! I love a lot of Makoto Shinkai's other works so I had no doubt this one would be great as well. The story is interesting and funny in places and also really heart warming. The art is breath taking and I honestly can't wait to get to more volumes of this.

Having recently watched and enjoyed the film Suzume I was eager to give this manga adaptation a try. I am someone who would like to read more manga but hasn't read a huge amount thus far so this was the perfect starting-off point for me.

Suzume follows our titular character, a high school student who encounters the handsome and mysterious stranger Souta when he asks her the location of ruins in her town. When she follows Souta to the ruins, Suzume encounters a door to nowhere and accidentally opens a porthole to unleash a huge worm which wreaks havoc and devastation across the country. Suzume finds herself embroiled in an adventure to seal off the porthole and save Souta, who finds himself trapped inside a three legged chair.

I thought the art style was beautiful and there was a lot of character development conveyed with very little text. The story is almost a direct adaptation of the film so I was familiar with the story, but I wonder if it may be a little confusing to follow for anyone who hasn't seen the film.

Overall I'm very glad I read it and look forward to reading more manga in the future.

Wow. I’m already emotional reading this first volume.. I don’t even know what the movie would do to me!

This was so beautiful to read. The illustrations are magical and the characters are so lovable. I’m sure when I learn more about Suzume and her mom I will be a puddle on the floor, but I already know I have to read the next few volumes and see the movie! I also know I have to read the light novel, too.

Suzume is a young high schooler who lives a pretty normal life until she encounters Souta. Souta is a door closer and mistakenly gets Suzume wrapped up in his world of closing mystical doors that keep spirits away from ‘the real world’. When a spirit escapes to everyone else their presence translates to earth quakes, landslides, etc, but it’s actually a spirit releases pent up energy. Souta ends up needing help closing a door that also released a keystone and unbeknownst to Suzume and Souta the keystone has turned into a daiju that’s being mischievous around Japan! Suzume and Souta have to track the daiju down before it keeps opening up all the doors all while Souta has been cursed by the daiju!

Will absolutely be picking up the next volume when available.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this manga. I loved Your name so was interested in Suzume and I wasn’t disappointed. I haven’t seen the movie but I will be now. I liked the art style and the story was interesting. I will be looking out for this title in the future, I need to know what happens next?

Thanks Netgalley for the manga of this book

I have seen the movie and I loved it. The magical aspect and the found friendship made as well as much more , so reading vol 1 of the manga was a lovely walk down memory lane and gave me all the happy feels + I love the cat they follow everywhere ❤️ 😊... I will be continuing these as well as buying them all to keep.

Loved it. Not sure what else to say. I love the story and the art style is also great! This story works great in manga form as well.