#dohi

I invariably end up drawing parallels even though there isn’t really anything much in common. Well…not exactly...

I mean the Yufutsu boys can take the 7th in a fight(not to death, just running with Bokkos. Don’t read that as Bokki. Don’t)  

If Golden Kamuy has soldiers, Suinamarada has the hockey boys:-Buzzcuts 🗸 & The first part of training is running with 6kg Bokkos to prepare them with required physical stamina. The bokko=hockey stick=gun.

So Supinamarada is set in Tomakomai, which is very famous for its ice hockey. In fact, Boku Dake ga Inai Machi/Erased is also set in Tomakomai which was it’s mangaka’s hometown. Thank god Satoru isn’t Noda.  I was actually surprised when I first read it I thought, wait, the houses look straight out of Erased and then...

And not just Tomakomai. The protagonist high school is Yufutsu. Yufutsu, Tomakomai was where they first met Inkarmat at Huci’s brother's place and then the horse race where Kiro-chan showed off his jockey skills and Shiraishi lost.

The main rival team(or only significant one, since the manga was too short) is Kiyosato from Hachinohe, Aomori.

Anyway, about the characters...

Sometimes the eyes, sometimes eyebrows, sometimes the whole person. Rarely the personalities.

These boys(and two gals) are precious.

Precious!!

If Noda balances his bad guys in GK, he creates a high school scenario with not a manga high school, a nice high school, with a seriously Nihei-style crazy boot camp for rowdy but serious pro hockey aspirant high school boys who are good, good guys, and troubled young adults. The ones that aren’t just a lil bit bad are truly, wholsome-ly good!!

0.Nihei’s great great grandson

He’s Nihei++

Has same surname kanji 二瓶 .  

That Beware, bear! sign...was turned into a Beware, Nihei! XD

He actually makes me wonder about a universe where Nihei trained the 7th Division.

1. Sugimoto and Tanigaki had a son who became the protagonist. Three protagonists.

a. Genjiro eye shape a little, Sugimoto everything else. Can’t remember who has his cat pupils but I know I’ve seen it somewhere. Shirakawa Rou - violent figure skater who finally found his place in ice hockey. (He has brown hair too)

b. Sugimoto is very Genma Kouichi. Very so. The entire eyebrows and eyes(except pupil) are identical.

c. Genma Keiichi, the younger Genma brother, is also a lil Sugi.

The Genma brothers(though not the same characters) were also the protagonists of Noda’s award-winning short “ゴーリーは前しか向かない ”. Kouichi is the goalie(goalkeeper). 

2. The Hanazawa Eyebrows

Ogata’s reincarnation who has his delinquent tendencies but with Yusaku’s affable nature - Most importantly, The telephone receiver eyebrows and ok, Ogata’s nose

Meet Kai Kengo. One of the bestest boys ever!

He’s Ogata. In many ways. Except being far too nice natured and emotional.

Don’t kill me for this edit where I only erased lines and cut Ogata’s hair. They’re the...same

3. Finally Noda gave the Genma brother’s eyes to someone

All the eyes are quite distinct but the Genma bros have the most curious impossible pupils. Square white. And it’s been their distinguishing feature. 

Ariko!

4. When Ushiyama talks like Koito all the time

The usual cute running gag of the guy no one but his best friend can understand - meet Ushiyama Souta who talks in the manga version of hieroglyphics(ancient japanese calligraphy). (Ushiyama Souta and Ushiyama Tatsuma do have the same surname kanji 牛山 ). 

He speaks in very heavy dialect - Hamakotoba of coastal south Hokkaido. And Kumano is the only one who understands him.

5. Kumano reminds me of a buff Nikaido..

Nah...That large sized brothel owner that wanted to sell Asirpa off and also later got bowled out by a rampaging Ushiyama:- 

The more apt Nikaido is Mukai or put both’s features together

6. Usami and the hospital guy’s common descendent - the inverted U eyebrow and mole! Added pretty eyes!

Mizushima Hiroshi! Special move-armpit farts. Seriously. Was fat but then Nihei’s torture shaped him up

Talking of Usami...

No idea who-some Kiyosato guy.

7. Kiroranke’s descendant married Tsukishima’s

Kiro-chan’s eyes, Tsukishima’s eyebrows+goatee+nostrils(but on a nose) and their equal combined energy is...creepy.

At first glance more like Tsukishima with a nose, happy, confident and coaching with heavy tactics

Wakabayashi Hiroki is named after real-life Japanese ice hockey coach (exact same name) who helped Noda providing him information on ice hockey and tactics. They have different career histories, however. The manga Wakabayashi was formerly gk(goalkeeper) with Russian team. 

8. Best girl Wakami=....Sugimoto if he were a girl. Seriously...

She is an angel. An angel! 

Plus a lil’ Edogai-ish

9. Dohi

Enough said...

10. Tanigaki.... if he was disastrously lucky. And his eyebrows compounded on themselves and were grey

Azumi Masaki. The “luckiest” guy in the world. 

11. The Eyebrows that have no beginning nor end

Tanigaki v.0 bequeath a slimmer version of his eyebrows unto Koito Heiji

color scheme- 

12. Neko - Neko the first’s 75th grandkat

Yubari is close to Tomakomai.

13. Kiroranke and Shirashi had a kid. Who had a kid with Ogata and a gold eyed cat’s Vasily’s kid. 

And that kid is equal parts Ogata and equal parts the sweetest dork like Shiraishi who smiles like the most beautiful angel. 

His smile is so beautiful - its creeps guys out. He’s got Yusaku’s nose and ever since I saw this cute fanart on twitter of a police Yusaku....who is made to look identical to Kiribuchi...

Nah...still more Ogata

Meet Kiribuchi Yuuto!

Koito Heiji and Kiro-chan’s tufted hair and...

Grows into Ogata’s goatee.

On that note, both Kiribuchi(=Ogata) and Wakabayashi(=Kiroranke) were the ‘anatgonists’...

Hmm....

14. Kiribuchi Yuuto Part 2

Adding to it…Kiribuchi is from Hachinohe, Aomori(Aomori…) - a port city and suffers from sea-sickness and yet they always travel to Tomakomai via ferry even though its an established fact that he gets sea sick. With him its a gag; Koito  Otonoshin-kun’s seasickness is a lil’ dark.

And well, another person he kindof resembles

is Fina. 

(though we haven’t seen much of her and maybe its coz of those light eyes that’s almost a universalRussian-characterly common.)

Kiribuchi’s eyes are yellowish/amber(?) in the colorspread and hair is silver(though since his parents run a beauty salon...)

On that note, lil’ Vasya’s a lil similar too(to Fina too with the eyebrows)

Ummm….so, say Olga had survived she’d have been a lil older than Asirpa and a lil’ younger than Koito. So Kiribuchi’s like in an alternate universe, great-grandchild of Koito and Olga...

15. Ishizaki Mitsuo

Just give him a fuller moustache and he becomes:-

That random Kagoshima school master that called Koito a bonbon.

16. Kouro Naoto

The Captain of Tomakomai Yufutsu High’s Ice Hockey team is literally the most positive and upbeat guy who keeps the team together with great leadership skill.

And he sparkles. Those diamondy spakles of positivity just overflowing from his person!!!! And his extra sparkly eyes!!

Just like our dearest Maiharu Gansoku!!

Also…don’t do anything stupid or harm his team and get him angry.

He’ll obliterate you.

Literally.

(That pic is of him lecturing the team though when they got too down in the dumps. But,yeah. Don’t get him angry)

Like when Higuchi and Keiichi’s fight spiralled out of control…

He stepped in…

Considering Nihei drilled the entire lot of them into having the required extraordinary stamina and strength, Kouro’s tossing of the otherwise large-sized and almost equally strong former captain Higuchi is no mean feat of strength.

He and Gansoku…would’ve really, really hit it off.

17. Higuchi

On that note, Higuchi is just a lil’ similar to Oyabun

Just a lil’ appearance-wise…and yakuza-ing wise.

About the title:-

Basically, it’s spin a rama made into spi_namara_da!

Thats coz, namara in Hokkaido-ben means (adv.) very; awfully; really; synonyms  とても、すごく (src jlect) 

The Characters....all the main characters were on the cover of the final vol. 6:-

In order starting from top left(as such):-

Dohi Tsuyoshi

Nihei Toshimitsu (you can’t not know Nihei)

Shirakawa Rou - the MC

Neko - yes, Edogai’s cat with the middle hair parting

Shirakawa Haruna - Rou’s twin sister

 Azumi Masaki, Kouro Naoto(bottom of front cover)

And on the other side of the spine, from top left(left to right each row)

Wakabayashi Hiroki, Kiyosato High’s coach; and Kiribuchi Yuuto, Kiyosato High’s ace player.

Isono Wakami, best girl ever!! (she’s trying to hide her height down there)

Ushiyama Souta, Kumano Tomohiro 

Genma Keiichi, Kai Kengo, Kosugi, Mizushima Hiroshi

and finally Genma Kouichi - the elder Genma brother.

Missing recurring characters: Toujyoh, Kobayashi, Ogino and Higuchi.

Ohk...

I know Supin-a-mara-da or Supinamarada who really approved that damn complicated title? came before but I like to believe the Golden Kamuy characters were their ancestors of yore.

I’ve come to this conclusion. See some similarities? 

Yep.

Mostly minute but they all remind me of someone or other in Golden Kamuy.

It was so different. I mean <impossible to say that name> is like a sports manga with far less actually crazy stuff and more regular stuff.  Even Nihei’s great-great-great grandson feels toned down. All of them are so normal and down to earth(ok, not completely, really this is Noda after all. There are things I wish I could unsee) and they're so, so...likeable. But very surprisingly the Ice Hockey I know is a pretty violent sport but it feels like there is so little blood(in comparison) and overly terrible injuries. 

Plus, it was different from other sports manga. Nobody developed superhuman moves, just gained inhuman levels of physical endurance with Nihei’s relentless practice regime, and puked like hell, or some have prodigious reflexes in the realm of ice skating and great form in hockey skills. It’s kind of too shonen to be expected of Noda. I mean, we’ve got ice hockey and these boys and yet I can’t ever picture any of them being made to endure any of Golden Kamuy’s ‘special scenes’. These bois are too precious for that!!

The manga starts off slow and gets axed just when it picks up a good pace plus some drama. Plus we only ever get a vague ‘story’ on the MC, the second MCs the Genma bros, and the secondary characters Captain Naoto, Kai Kengo, the coaches coz of how short it is. And the greatest best girl ever...Wakami the Kyoshinhei got an omake for vol 6 revised edition. Honestly...it kinda makes me sad it ended so short. I really got into it. But then again...we got Golden Kamuy which is 100 times more osoma (you know I mean hinna). Noda had once stated he wanted to complete it someday but I absolutely doubt he will.

Supinamarada v.1 

- revised in digital edition. Pg 3 is what was added in.

The most significant added page or rather double spread looks so....BL. (That nosing!)

Nodacchi really got into since starting Golden Kamuy, didn’t he?

Você é minha nova bagunça e eu te tenho nas mãos, mas me escapa pelos dedos todos seus caquinhos. Você cai de mim. Cai e se finge de forte pra se recompor e andar até ela.

Ela que olha por você para enxergar ele e se doa pela metade pros dois. Porque um coração novo nunca quer uma coisa só, eu não queria. Estamos sempre caçando novas emoções nos outros sem emocionar a nós mesmos, sempre na mesma montanha russa achando que cada volta é diferente.

Mas no final todas as voltas são iguais. E você se acostuma a não se esforçar pelo o que quer, porque simplesmente não precisa. E ela é assim com você.

Ela te precisa só por alguns momentos, só quando o tesão fala mais alto ou quando ele não responde as expectativas.

Mas aí você me olha por mim para vê-la. E eu nem deveria chorar, mas eu o faço. Porque eu te enxergo nos meus braços durante um bom tempo, tempo suficiente pra te colar inteira e te fazer se ver pelos meus olhos.

Eu não sou vista.