(English is below.)
みなさん、こんにちは。いつもPEOPLISMをご覧いただき、ありがとうございます。今年も慌ただしくしているうちに３月が終わりました。4月には、いくつかISM紹介の記事を予定しています。新生活の始まりとともに、そちらもチェックいただくと、気持ちや生活を切り替える良いきっかけになるかもしれません。みなさんが毎日を少しでも楽しめますように。
今回は、ある読み切り漫画を紹介させてください。学生時代ならではのISMをテーマとした漫画で、大人になって失ってしまった「なにか」を取り戻したい気持ちになります。
紹介したい漫画はジャンプ＋に掲載中の「写して」という読み切り作品、作者は山本登さん。 今年で高校を卒業する主人公、洲崎和は「卒業写真」の撮影に臨みます。高校生にとっては一生残る卒業写真。誰しもがいい感じに写りたいものです。主人公の彼女は幼少期に瞼あたりに傷を負ってしまい、左右の目の開き具合が異なっていました。なんとかそれを前髪で隠して綺麗に写ろうとしますが、そんな彼女を阻むのが前髪に厳しい校則。そしてやけに頑固な教師。それらの壁を前にして、新米教師、クラスメイト、カメラマンを巻き込みながら、彼女は立ち向かっていきます。
彼女は、決して反抗的な性格ではありません。むしろ、みんなが寝ている授業中、寝ないように耐えるような真面目さを持っています。そんな彼女が、頑固な先生たちを前にして、全く譲らない。「卒業写真に綺麗に写りたい」というその一念が、彼女を突き動かしています。
ISMだ、と思いました。それと同時に、読みながら全身に鳥肌が立ちました。思い出したんです。私たちが高校生だった頃、先生たちには決してわからないけれど、絶対譲れない瞬間があった。怒られるのがわかっていても攻めたい瞬間があった。今になって思えば、すごく些細なこと。でも当時は違う。そこには私たちなりのISMがあった。
ismを創り出すのは理屈や理論だけではないはずです。内面から湧き出ることも、きっとあると思います。みなさんも一度思い出してみてください。高校時代、きっと何か譲れないものがあったはず。それがみなさんの新しいISMに繋がるかも。
次回のPEOPLISMもお楽しみに。
Hello folks. As always, thank you for reading PEOPLISM’s articles. March has come to an end while we have been in a hurry. We are planning to write several articles introducing ISM in April. Please check them out as well as the start of your new life, it may be a good opportunity to change your mind and life. I wish you all to enjoy your daily life!
This time, let me introduce you to one-shot manga that I’ve read. It is a manga about ISM peculiar to the student age, and it makes me want to regain something I lost as an adult.
It’s called “写して”（means like ”Take a pictures of me.”) and is currently being published in Jump+. The author is Noboru Yamamoto. The main character, Suzaki, who will graduate from high school this year, is about to have her “graduation photo” taken. For high school students, it is something that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Everyone wants to look good in it. The main character, Suzaki, suffered a scar around her eyelid when she was a child, and her left and right eyes are open at different angles. She tries to hide it with her bangs and take a good picture, but the school rules about bangs are very strict. And the teacher was very stubborn. She faces these obstacles with the involvement of the new teacher, her classmates, and the photographer.
She is not a rebellious personality. Rather, she has a seriousness that makes her endure not to sleep during class when everyone else is asleep. She is like that, but in front of her stubborn teachers, she does not give in at all. That single-minded desire to “look good in the graduation photo” is what drives her.
This is ISM, I thought. At the same time, I had goosebumps all over my body as I read. I remembered. When we were high school students, there were moments that teachers could never understand, but we absolutely could not compromise. There were moments when we wanted to challenge, even if we knew we would be scolded. Looking back on it now, it was a very trivial thing. But at the time, it was different. There was our own ISM.
It should not be only logic or theory that creates ISM. I am sure there are things that come from within. I would like to ask you all to think back once. When you were in high school, was there something you could not compromise on? That may lead you to a new ISM.
Please look forward to the next issue of PEOPLISM.
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