TasogareBoshi no Sui to Neri or Sui Neri and the Twilight Planet is a short twovolume manga that came out in 2020 and ended in 2021. I only just discovered it yesterday and finished reading it today and I gotta say this is a pretty cute wholesome underrated scifi manga. It centers on a young girl Sui and her best friend a talking sloth named Neri and the two of them live in a future where people are leaving Earth to go to colonized planets in space. Nowadays Earth has become inhabited by talking animals and is mainly just a quick pit stop for humans going to other planets. But Sui and Neris lives change a little bit when a woman named Shida books a room at their inn when trying to get to school and as they become friends the days they spend together become a little livelier. Dont expect much in the way of a riveting plot here as this manga is content to be just a series of episodic adventures revolving around Sui and her talking sloth friend. In a way TasogareBoshi no Sui to Neri is a bit like a lighter less bleak Girls Last Tour. The art style and storytelling methods it utilizes relfect this as similarly to Girls Last Tour Sui to Neri is content with not giving you all the answers up front other than some very vague subtle clues that let you fill in the gaps for yourself. I think it works here because the story is told from the perspective of a bunch of kids who are likely just as in the dark about what happened to their world as we the audience are and they dont see what remains of Earth as a bleak apocalyptic hellscape. To them its just their world and how its always been. The story doesnt feel the need to try and justify its existence with overwrought backstories or overthetop technobabble merely showing how the new Earth functions and how the people and animals still living there live in it. There are things I wish Sui to Neri would explain in more detail such as how the talking animals came to be what half the characters names are what happened with Suis biological parents and how she wound up getting adopted by a family of sloths but I certainly enjoyed what the manga already provided. If I were to describe Sui to Neris art style itd be a slightly more refined version of Girls Last Tour. The human characters dont look as squishy as the ones in GLT do and they have more details in things like their eyes and bodies. The backgrounds intentionally have cleaner lines than GLT had with less reliance on crosshatching for shading and less sketchy even though GLT used those shading styles deliberately to show how decrepit its world is. The world of Sui to Neri isnt so much dead as it is nearing its twilight years but still functioning. Buildings are old and creaky but still shown as being usable and again like GLT the backgrounds and scenery alone tell you all you need to know about the current state of Earth even down to things like cracks in stone stairways. The paneling makes every scene naturally flow into the other and the backgrounds are pretty detailed without being overstuffed with the few splash pages it has being breathtaking making them hit at just the right moment. The talking animals are all depicted as cute and chibi with all of them being friendly and kind to our protagonists. Speaking of the characters the trio of Sui Neri and Shida while not the most threedimensional or layered are a fun bunch to watch and the manga is mostly about them interacting with each other and the world around them. Any conflicts they have are pretty downtoearth and never delve into melodrama. A lot of the solutions to whatever conflicts they face are pretty simple with the manga not making a huge deal out of them. Plus with the manga not having anything resembling a big engrossing plot the characters dont change much over the course of the series and any changes they do go through are subtle and understated which I think works here since Sui to Neri is more about appreciating what you have finding the beauty in whats left and making the most of your situation. I do appreciate that the characters designs are pretty downtoearth too. Sui and Shida actually look like people youd meet on the street or in Suis case a kid youd see in a store with their parents. On its own TasogareBoshi no Sui to Neri is a cute laidback wholesome scifi manga thats content to be what it is answers be damned. Dont go into this looking for high octane action or having answers to everything be spoonfed to you up front. And dont worry Sui to Neri has a pretty happy ending all things considered. Its a nice little childrens manga that isnt going to make any waves but I still recommend it if you want a lowkey scifi story that doesnt make you want to shortcircuit your brain.