Sola (manga)

The action takes place in the fictional city of Kanami, the prototype of which was the city of Nagasaki . Morimiya Yorito, a first-year high school student, enjoys photography. He especially likes to take pictures of the sky. So today he came to the embankment early in the morning to photograph the sky at dawn. And there he met a strange girl, with a run, kicking a machine gun to get a can of juice from him. His second meeting with this girl (whose name was Matsuri) took place the next day, in the same place under the same circumstances. And when, after some time, he helped her escape from a strange man with a katana, he brought her to his home. And then it turned out that she was not at all a man, but a yak .

Yaka ( 夜 禍 ), or Yakabito ( 夜 禍 人 ) ( 夜 - night, 禍 - disaster) - special mystical creatures, the embodiment of human suffering and pain. Usually they are always alone and hated by people. Matsuri herself calls the yak monsters (化 物, bakemono ). Outwardly, however, they practically do not differ from people. However, they have some abilities inaccessible to people. Although, strictly speaking, yaks are not ageless, or immortal, they can live for hundreds of years. From wounds inflicted by them, they quickly heal. However, sunlight is disastrous for them, so they go out only at night, or in inclement weather.

Some yaks, such as Matsuri, are yaks from birth, others, like Tomoko, were once people, and only then became yaks. Only a yak from birth can turn a person into a yak.

The katana that Takeshi carried with him has the ability to “transmit life” from one yaki to another. That yak, to whom life was thus transmitted, can again become a man.

Yorito Morimiya ( 森 宮 依 人 Morimiya Yorito ) is a first-grade student in high school. He loves the sky, constantly photographs him, even the walls and ceiling in his room are hung with these photographs. Classmates even nicknamed him “sora-baka” (空 バ カ). Seeing a suitable view, rushes to photograph it, forgetting about all other matters. No parents, lives with an older sister. At the beginning of the series, she is in the hospital, and he visits her, each time bringing her dolls as a gift. Unlike heaven, he has no taste for dolls and, as a rule, he chooses the most unfortunate ones.

Seiyu : Nobuhiko Okamoto

Matsuri Shiho ( Jap. 茉莉 茉莉 Shiho: Matsuri ) - looks like a young girl of about the same age as Yorito. In fact, she is a yak , and has been living for more than 350 years. She can go out only at night, but she wants to see the blue sky. Before meeting with Yorito, she lived in a dilapidated church. In this church there were old books that she sold, thereby receiving livelihoods. She doesn’t know how to handle equipment; she is also weak in cooking. Likes to drink canned tomato juice ^[2] .

Seiyu: Mamiko Noto

Aono Morimiya ( Japanese 森 宮 蒼 乃 Morimiya Aono ) is Yorito's older sister. A few months ago she became ill, so she is now in a city hospital. Her special skill is origami , she is also strong in cooking. She is laconic and mysterious. Loves Yorito, although rarely expresses it outwardly; the dolls that Yorito brings to her, she silently throws them into the box; Nevertheless, he values ​​them, and does not throw them away.

Seiyu: Mai Nakahara

Mana Ishizuki ( 石 月 真 名 Ishizuki Mana ) is a classmate of Yorito. They met in the hospital, where he came to visit Aono, and she - her little sister. After that, she began to often come to Yorito's home to help with the housework, since Yorito himself was not strong in these matters. The girlfriends suspect that her attitude to Yorito is more serious than just friendship, she herself, however, denies this. In his free time, moonlighting in the restaurant "Azyuru."

Seiyu: Yoko Honda

Kёori Ishizuki ( 石 月 こ よ り Ishizuki Kёori ) is Mana’s younger sister and is in the second grade of elementary school. In conversation, he usually uses a polite style of speech, even his sister does not call “Onee-chan”, but “Mana-san”, for which he receives head slaps from Mana. Sick, she got to the hospital, where on the very first evening she met Aono. Despite the difference in age, they immediately became friends; they were united by an acute sense of loneliness felt by both. Aono teaches Koori to do origami. After being discharged from the hospital, Koori still sometimes comes to Aono’s house.

Seiyu: Ai Shimizu

Takeshi Tsujido ( Japanese 辻 堂 剛 史 Tsujido: Takeshi ) is a weird man with a beard. Since childhood, in love with Mayuko, and when she became a yak , he stayed with her, vowing that he could someday make her human again. But for this, he needs to kill some other yak with his special katana. For this reason, he pursues Matsuri.

Seiyu: Keiji Fujiwara ; (as a child) Yuko Sampei

Mayuko Kamikawa ( Japanese 神 河 繭 子 Kamikawa Mayuko ) is a girl traveling with Takeshi. He usually holds a teddy hare in his hands, and has the habit of sleeping in empty boxes. She looks about 10 years old. She was once an ordinary girl, but 17 years ago she was killed and then turned into a yak . Takeshi the teddy hare presented to her that day is still carried with her as something of value.

Seiyu: Tomoko Kaneda

Sae Sakura ( 佐 倉 紗 絵 Sakura Sae ) is one of Mana’s classmates. Meganekko . He moonlights in the same restaurant as Mana. Likes to spread rumors. He has a special passion for men with a beard, in particular, for Takeshi, who sometimes comes to them with Mayuko at a restaurant, and whom she calls “Hige-dandei,” that is, “a dandy with a beard.” Mayuko, she considers him a daughter.

Seiyu: Ami Cosimizu

Opening topic

• "Colorless wind"

Performed by Yuki Ira

Closing topics

• "Mellow melody" : series 01-12

Performed by Ceui

• Miageru Ano Sora de Series 13

Performed by Yuki Ira

• Air

• Official site (Japanese)

In databases

• Anime "Sola" in the encyclopedia of Anime News Network
• Anime "Sola" in the AniDB database