is a Japanese
manga
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written and illustrated by
Inio Asano. It is about two
junior high school
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students who enter into a
casual sex relationship. The manga was serialized in
Ohta Publishing's ''
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was a bimonthly
{{Short pages monitor as well as the day his brother committed suicide—Koume requests "Gather The Wind" to be played, but finds that Isobe hasn't been to school in three days. Koume desperately searches for Isobe during a storm, but doesn't find him at home, only a sticky note saying "sorry". When she sees a cheerful Isobe a week later, he tells her that he met the girl in the pictures and got her email address, aiming to get into her high school. Koume confesses her feelings to him and asks him out, but he declines. In high school, Koume obtains a boyfriend, whom she kisses. On her way home, she meets Kashima, who reveals that he still has feelings for her. On the shore, she exclaims that she found what she was looking for: "something bigger than everything else, the sea!"
Production
When Asano started out in the manga industry, he saw sexuality as normal part of life so he used it to portray reality in his work. He felt that he created ''A Girl on the Shore'' at the right time, because he later found himself in an unfavorable environment in Japan and with manga readers not expecting sexual scenes in mangas which are not explicitly labelled as erotic or pornographic. Shaenon K. Garrity of Anime News Network
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felt that the showing of pubic hair in the manga was "a sign of the changing times in Japanese publishing" because they used to be taboo.
Release
The manga was launched in Ohta Publishing's magazine ''