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はんだくん [Handa-kun] #6
はんだくん 6
さらば、我が青春の半田。
文化祭キングを目指すべくクラス一丸となって準備に励む2年7組(通称半田組)。相変わらず愛されているのかはぶられているのか絶妙な扱いを受けながらも、半田くんの心に少しずつ変化が…?果たして半田くんに友達はできるのか?ネガティブ思考を卒業できるのか…! ?「ばらかもん」のスピンオフ、本編はこれにて完結! (…といいつつ番外編だらけの7巻も9月に出るのでそっちもよろしくお願いします! )
文化祭キングを目指すべくクラス一丸となって準備に励む2年7組(通称半田組)。相変わらず愛されているのかはぶられているのか絶妙な扱いを受けながらも、半田くんの心に少しずつ変化が…?果たして半田くんに友達はできるのか?ネガティブ思考を卒業できるのか…! ?「ばらかもん」のスピンオフ、本編はこれにて完結! (…といいつつ番外編だらけの7巻も9月に出るのでそっちもよろしくお願いします! )
161 pages, Paperback
First published July 12, 2016
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Satsuki Yoshino
80 books93 followersYOSHINO Satsuki
Name (in native language): ヨシノサツキ
Zodiac: Gemini
Name (in native language): ヨシノサツキ
Zodiac: Gemini
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June 7, 2017
Heh. This was funny. A paranoid, introverted student who is worshiped by all, but convinced that everyone is purposely excluding him. It's funny and awkward. Enjoyable read.
June 10, 2018
Well, that was a weird fake-out ending. It was supposed to end with this volume, but apparently there's another one.
I kind of like the way this one ended. It's a gag that is oddly fitting for a prequel series. I think I'll consider this the true ending, especially if the next volume isn't good.
I'll be curious to see what the additional volume has to offer. I'm hoping that it's not going to just be a tacked on thing that doesn't need to exist. As it is, this series has felt like it's been going on too long considering the crux of the joke is that Handa doesn't understand people and we see the bizarre admiration that Handa constantly mistakes for bullying.
I kind of like the way this one ended. It's a gag that is oddly fitting for a prequel series. I think I'll consider this the true ending, especially if the next volume isn't good.
I'll be curious to see what the additional volume has to offer. I'm hoping that it's not going to just be a tacked on thing that doesn't need to exist. As it is, this series has felt like it's been going on too long considering the crux of the joke is that Handa doesn't understand people and we see the bizarre admiration that Handa constantly mistakes for bullying.
November 10, 2017
Vol ini luar biasaaaa!!!
March 17, 2018
Festival sekolah yang ramai... dan untungnya, biar sedikit, Handa-kun bisa menerima itikad baik teman2nya (AKHIRNYA!)
August 20, 2019
Haha, okay, I think I finally get it. Either that or this volume was just way better. This was a ton of fun.
August 29, 2017
In Summary
It’s not the final volume of Handa-kun, but it’s definitely written like one. The school festival provides a recap of Handa’s impact on his adorning fans. However, many gags are just variations of jokes we’ve seen before. A seventh volume follows this one, but it already feels like the series has gone on too long.
The Review
The previous volume mentioned that this would be the final volume in the series. As it turns out, Volume 6 is the penultimate, not the final volume. The Handa-kun News at the end of the book explains that, due to popular demand, a seventh volume with an extra arc will be released as the last in the series. However, the structure of Volume 6 is very much that of a finale.
A single arc focusing on the school’s annual cultural festival comprises this book. Three chapters are about the festival preparations, two chapters about the event itself, and one about the festival after-party. Because the entire school is involved in preparations and the festival is an open event, it provides the perfect setting to revisit the impact HND-syndrome has had on the cast, even the White Shirts from the rival school. Thus, seemingly everyone, from fortuneteller Tsugumi to the carnivore girls, gets a cameo, like in so many manga and anime finales.
The setting also lends itself to some comical visuals, ranging from various Handa themed games to the fake Handa’s Handa Clone Army. In addition, we get the novelty of seeing Handa’s class in period crossdress for their drama cafe.
Unfortunately, the plot is lackluster. Yoshino-sensei has relied heavily on Handa and his fans misinterpreting one another throughout the series for laughs, and getting more of the same at this point is rather tiresome. The drama cafe play is an inane interpretation of Romeo and Juliet with a badly selected cast, which is a situation that has been done to death in anime/manga. The introduction of the “black suits” makes things interesting for a while, but then it just gets confusing when they reveal why they’ve come to the festival.
As for the conclusion to the arc, Kawafuji’s remorse and efforts to rectify the situation are believable. The final resolution is not. After several volumes of reinforcing Handa’s paranoia of his classmates, the sudden collapse of the “Handa wall” feels like cheating.
Extras include the title illustration in color, bonus manga, translation notes, and an installment of “Handa-Kun News.”
It’s not the final volume of Handa-kun, but it’s definitely written like one. The school festival provides a recap of Handa’s impact on his adorning fans. However, many gags are just variations of jokes we’ve seen before. A seventh volume follows this one, but it already feels like the series has gone on too long.
The Review
The previous volume mentioned that this would be the final volume in the series. As it turns out, Volume 6 is the penultimate, not the final volume. The Handa-kun News at the end of the book explains that, due to popular demand, a seventh volume with an extra arc will be released as the last in the series. However, the structure of Volume 6 is very much that of a finale.
A single arc focusing on the school’s annual cultural festival comprises this book. Three chapters are about the festival preparations, two chapters about the event itself, and one about the festival after-party. Because the entire school is involved in preparations and the festival is an open event, it provides the perfect setting to revisit the impact HND-syndrome has had on the cast, even the White Shirts from the rival school. Thus, seemingly everyone, from fortuneteller Tsugumi to the carnivore girls, gets a cameo, like in so many manga and anime finales.
The setting also lends itself to some comical visuals, ranging from various Handa themed games to the fake Handa’s Handa Clone Army. In addition, we get the novelty of seeing Handa’s class in period crossdress for their drama cafe.
Unfortunately, the plot is lackluster. Yoshino-sensei has relied heavily on Handa and his fans misinterpreting one another throughout the series for laughs, and getting more of the same at this point is rather tiresome. The drama cafe play is an inane interpretation of Romeo and Juliet with a badly selected cast, which is a situation that has been done to death in anime/manga. The introduction of the “black suits” makes things interesting for a while, but then it just gets confusing when they reveal why they’ve come to the festival.
As for the conclusion to the arc, Kawafuji’s remorse and efforts to rectify the situation are believable. The final resolution is not. After several volumes of reinforcing Handa’s paranoia of his classmates, the sudden collapse of the “Handa wall” feels like cheating.
Extras include the title illustration in color, bonus manga, translation notes, and an installment of “Handa-Kun News.”
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 18, 2021
The final narrative volume of Seishuu Handa's teenage years tiptoes around the perfunctory chatter of his high-school's culture festival. On the upside, readers have the opportunity to witness more speedbumps in Handa and Kawafuji's early friendship. On the downside, it's another culture festival with all the requisite anxieties of overworked students, over-enthusiastic student council leaders, and clueless enablers. It's a rather soft and explicitly convenient conclusion to a weird and raucous manga.
HANDA-KUN #6 does drift closer toward the orbit of the sane, as Handa slowly comes to view all the fawning strangers in his class as actual friends (as opposed to rivals who simply detest him). However impossible or abnormal this shift in perspective would have seemed one or two volumes ago, this change in the manga's narrative trajectory is necessary for that "soft landing" to occur by the book's end. Handa can't always be suspicious and bitter toward everyone. Admittedly, it's a quick and uneven pivot, but it is, again, a necessary one.
And while Handa is shoehorned into the odd and comically inert position of royalty during the culture festival preparations, the author makes a laudable effort to insert just about every secondary character of note, via cameo or recurring position, to ensure there's no shortage of weirdness. The high-school delinquent Tsutsui as a Shakespearean Juliet? The Beautie-Girls Art Club pepping to sell five thousand copies of its Handa-chan doujin? So much weirdness.
Overall, the personality-driven humor of this manga series has endured purposefully from start to finish. The awkward fawning has never felt truly warranted or suitable, but then again, one supposes that's part of the grift: Handa was held in such high regard precisely because he never actually sought attention. The young man's humility is fragmented but comes to him so naturally that his aloofness is often translated, quite instantly, into "coolness." Now, if only that portable shrine didn't sink into the bonfire in a magnificent blaze of glory. . .
HANDA-KUN #6 does drift closer toward the orbit of the sane, as Handa slowly comes to view all the fawning strangers in his class as actual friends (as opposed to rivals who simply detest him). However impossible or abnormal this shift in perspective would have seemed one or two volumes ago, this change in the manga's narrative trajectory is necessary for that "soft landing" to occur by the book's end. Handa can't always be suspicious and bitter toward everyone. Admittedly, it's a quick and uneven pivot, but it is, again, a necessary one.
And while Handa is shoehorned into the odd and comically inert position of royalty during the culture festival preparations, the author makes a laudable effort to insert just about every secondary character of note, via cameo or recurring position, to ensure there's no shortage of weirdness. The high-school delinquent Tsutsui as a Shakespearean Juliet? The Beautie-Girls Art Club pepping to sell five thousand copies of its Handa-chan doujin? So much weirdness.
Overall, the personality-driven humor of this manga series has endured purposefully from start to finish. The awkward fawning has never felt truly warranted or suitable, but then again, one supposes that's part of the grift: Handa was held in such high regard precisely because he never actually sought attention. The young man's humility is fragmented but comes to him so naturally that his aloofness is often translated, quite instantly, into "coolness." Now, if only that portable shrine didn't sink into the bonfire in a magnificent blaze of glory. . .
September 24, 2017
I wish I'd read the beginning of the series more recently (it's been almost exactly a year!), I feel like a lot of this would have been even more enjoyable and amusing if I could remember how things started. Like I can't recall the Handa Wall, I assume it's just his way of misinterpreting events for the worse, and Eraser has amused me so much I want to revisit her origin (I think Handa must have given her an eraser or picked up hers when she dropped it but I'm not sure). Really this made me want to reread the entire series. I definitely enjoyed this more than the original series, maybe island life and little kids just don't appeal to me as much high school life. I hope I can find the anime online so I can watch it.
June 8, 2018
Not as funny as some of the other books but this book really wrapped things up a bit more for Handa-kun. I’m so happy for him at the end & I like what the story wrapped up to be. To be yourself without a wall. Even though it’s kind of the end still looking forward to what the last volume has in store.
October 21, 2017
I laughed and chuckled so many times, I lost count...
December 3, 2017
Another good volume. Art style is also good too.
March 24, 2018
I really enjoyed this series. Handa’s twisted world view was amusing, but the series ends on a truly happy note.
April 6, 2018
I love it
August 8, 2020
A super hilarious final volume, I literally laughed out so loud my tears fell down.
September 15, 2020
That was a fun, quick series, with some hilarious situations. I'm glad Handa was able to see how much he was loved by the end.
October 20, 2019
I really loved the ending as well as the manga as a whole. It made me laugh a lot, it was such a funny concept!
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