「週刊マーガレット」それから「ヤングユー」に作品を連載していた岩館真理子さんですが，この「子供はなんでも知っている」は同じ集英社の「ぶ～け」で発表されたものです。コミックスの第一巻が出されたのは1990年で，「うちのママが言うことには」や「冷蔵庫にパイナップル・パイ」と同時期であることを考えると，この頃の岩館さんがどれだけ忙しかったのか，ちょっと想像がしづらいほどです。
Iwadate Mariko originally serialized her works in “Weekly Margaret” first, then in “Young You”, but she published this work “Kodomo wa Nandemo Shitte Iru” in “Bouquet” from Shueisha, the same publishing company. The first volume of this comics was published in 1990, and it was a period of her life when she also published “Uchi no Mama ga Iukotoniwa” and “Reizoko ni Pineapple Pie”, so it was quite difficult to imagine how she was busy at that time.
親同士の結婚によって兄妹になった沙羅ととうたは，同じ１６歳，同じ高校の同級生です。何かと衝突する２人を，仲良くさせようと気を揉む沙羅の母ととうたの父でしたが，実は彼らが知らないだけで，２人は以前から交際しており，１年前にすでに破局していたのでした。一つ屋根の下で暮らす中で，相手の胸中を探り合い，互いにまだ好きであることを確かめ合う２人は，親の都合で兄妹になってしまったことに悶々とした日々を過ごすのですが……。
Sara and Tota, who become a sister and a brother in law due to their parent’s marriage, are both sixteen and also classmates in the same high school. Sara’s mom and Tota’s dad try to make them hit it off well with each other but actually, Sara and Tota had gone out with each other until they broke up a year ago and their parents just didn’t know the fact. Living in the same house, they guess how the other is feeling and know that they are still in love with each other so they end up spending their days frustrated under the situation they were placed in by their parents.
微妙な状況に置かれた若いカップルが抱く，周囲の大人たちへの不満，そして，将来への不安や相手への不信といった，揺れ動く心理がよく描けた作品です。わがままな沙羅とそれを持て余し気味のとうた，そして２人に振り回される母と父という構図自体に，岩館作品らしい可笑しみが表れています。
１コマ１コマで，登場人物の表情や台詞が愛おしく思える岩館真理子の世界を，新作で味わいたいです。
This is a work that depicts well the wavering mentality of a young couple in a subtle situation like how they have complaints to the adults around them and the feeling of anxiety to their future or the distrust to each other. I can see the characteristic humor which is an essential part of Iwadate’s works in some situations, for example, the conflicts between Sara who is quite selfish and Tota who can’t deal with her, and the way how their parents are disturbed by Sara and Tota.
I really want to enjoy the Iwadate’s world, which makes me feel affection for the character’s expressions or lines in each frame, in her new work.
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