''Si loin et si proche'' (lit. ''So distant and so close'') is a one-shot

slice of life Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment. In theater, slice of life refers to naturalism, while in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of events in a characte ...

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and d ...

manhua () are Chinese-language comics produced in China and Taiwan. Whilst Chinese comics and narrated illustrations have existed in China in some shape or form throughout its imperial history, the term first appeared in 1904 in a comic titled ''Cu ...

written and illustrated by Zhang Xiaobai. It was published in French by

Kana The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most p ...

on 5 March 2010.

Reception

It won the Gold Award at the 4th

International Manga Award Tarō Asō, the 92nd Prime Minister of Japan is an annual award established to encourage non-Japanese manga artists in 2007. This award was created by Japanese Foreign Minister Tarō Asō, who proposed this award in a policy speech he gave in ...

in 2011. Planetebd.com's Faustine Lillaz gave the manhua a rating of 3 out of 4. Manga Sanctuary's Den d Ice gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars.

References

Fantasy comics Manhua titles 2010 comics debuts International Manga Award winners One-shot comic titles Slice of life comics {{manhua-stub