| Title | : | Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 |
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| ISBN | : | 1626923027 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781626923027 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 523 |
| Publication | : | First published January 26, 2016 |
| Awards | : | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Graphic Novels & Comics (2016) |
On the day that Naho begins 11th grade, she receives a letter from herself ten years in the future. At first, she writes it off as a prank, but as the letter’s predictions come true one by one, Naho realizes that the letter might be the real deal. Her future self tells Naho that a new transfer student, a boy named Kakeru, will soon join her class. The letter begs Naho to watch over him, saying that only Naho can save Kakeru from a terrible future. Who is this mystery boy, and can Naho save him from his destiny? This is the heart-wrenching sci-fi romance that has over million copies in print in Japan!
Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 Reviews
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CRYING BECAUSE THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL. *RUNS TO THE STORE TO PICK UP VOLUME 2*
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I love them all but I loved Suwa the most. 💕
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Orange is a manga series that will definitely pull on your heartstrings. Heck, before even starting the actual story, the first two art pages at the beginning about broke my heart by themselves. This story starts out with our main character, Naho, receiving a letter from herself ten years in the future. She and her group of friends are sixteen and in eleventh grade in high school, but what her twenty-six-year-old self is trying to warn her of is imperative.
Future Naho informs present day Naho that she will lose the boy she likes if she doesn't change some of the actions and choices she is about to perform and choose. This obviously makes Naho hyper aware of everything she and her friends are doing, because she is so scared she is going to repeat past mistakes and end up losing this boy anyway.
The best part about this manga series is the phenomenal friendships. This book has one of the best circle of friends I've read about in years. They constantly are showing their unconditional love and support to each other, and are honestly a freakin' treat to read about. Seriously, friendship goals.
➽ Naho Takamiya - Main protagonist, who receives the letter about what her life is going to be like in ten years, unless she changes some things. Very shy, very timid, a very sweet little cinnamon roll.
➽ Kakeru Naruse - The boy who will not be in their lives anymore if his friends do not change the past.
➽ Takako Chino - The more outspoken girl in the group. She always sticks up for Naho, since Naho is too shy for confrontation, and always just generally feels like the protector of the group.
➽ Azusa Murasaka - The happy-go-lucky one of the group, her parents own a bakery, and she's always super excited and supportive of Naho.
➽ Saku Hagita - Manga lover in the group, who is also totally in love with Azu!
➽ Hiroto Suwa - Honestly one of the best characters, and most selfless humans, I've read about in years. He's the leader of this group, one of the most popular boys in their school, an amazing soccer player, and proves his unconditional love over and love throughout this volume.
I could probably writes sonnets at this point about how much I love Suwa, and how I honestly just want him, Naho, and Kakeru to have a polya relationship where they all love each other, but this whole group of friends is amazing. I love their group dynamic and how they interact individually, too. They are all selfless, to be honest, and they all truly want what is best for their friends. They are a great support system for one another, and I love seeing them build and boost each other up.
This manga series is also important, because it never shies away from the topic of suicide. It brings up great points, especially for high school aged kids, about how sometimes when friends joke about death, they aren't really joking and to always take them seriously. On the flip side, it is also important to understand that sometimes the saddest people will mask their feelings with smiles and laughter, so always check in on the ones you love and make sure they are feeling okay.
The art is beautiful, the story is lovely, and the messages are so very important. I loved everything about this, and I cannot wait to start the anime after I finish
Vol. 2.
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THAT WAS. SO DAMN. CUTE.
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I have officially read my first ever manga! It was fun, but I wasn’t especially blown away 😕 I will probably carry on with the series at some point though bc I’m very curious to see how it turns out!
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This is the first manga i've read and i'm so stoked! I loved it! I thought I would have much more trouble acclimating to the backwards reading style, but it was surprisingly easy to get accustomed to and I found it easier to read than some graphic novels that I've read. That being said, I think this manga is a great entry point to the genre for anyone because it's modern, the art is really really cute, and the storyline is easy to follow yet still interesting and fun!
I loved the characters in this. Although I got their names confused for about the first half, they each had such dynamic personalities and I grew to love everyone individually. The story is so cool because it toys with the idea of time travel and if people can prevent tragedy from striking, and I think it's such a fantastic story of friendship. I can't wait to pick up the second volume.
The reason I marked off a star is because I thought several places were a little bit too in-your-face. Particularly, Naho's inner monologue was often cheesy with super hyperbolic rhetorical questions that were almost silly in their cheesiness? Like someone would be nice to her and she would then be like "I wonder why they're being nice to me?!" and you just want to shake her and be like THEY !! LIKE !! YOU !!
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LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.
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Just hold his hand already GOD
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I've heard so many of my friends rave about this manga series that I was really excited to read it, but I was told to go into it "as blind as possible", so I went in thinking it was just a basic contemporary romance about some high schoolers. Nope. There is so much more to this than "just" a romance.
First, let me say that these characters are SO PRECIOUS and I would protect any of them at all costs—especially Suwa! I feel like he's the quiet, unsung hero of this story, in a sense, and he breaks my heart so much but I just love him. Naho is so precious, and her girlfriends are wicked protective and flawless. Even Hagita is a trip, though he's my least favorite.
Orange has some very minor sci-fi elements, but that's all I'll say, because if you don't know what the story is about, please don't look it up—just grab a copy and read it. This has been one of the most tragic, lovely, sweetest stories, and I'm on the edge of my seat, dying to read the next volume right this moment.
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[5 Stars] This was so cute and made me so freaking emotional.
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Tender yet tremendously impactful.
Worth every tear you'd cry, that I can assure you.
It's worth mine.
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I read this because it was a Goodreads Choice Book Final round selection for 2016, and I really really liked it a lot. It turns on a sort of familiar scifi trope/and social media theme: What if you could change your past? Or, what would your 25 year old self say to your 15 year old self? Naho gets letters from her 25 year old self urging her to change the future that would lead to Kakeru's suicide. There's romance in here, but the book chiefly deals with this attempt to change the future by acting on behalf of someone in need, Kakeru, whose mother also has committed suicide, and who also suffered from clinical depression.
All the characters would seem to be gorgeous and adorable, and the action is actually surprisngly engaging much of the time. Naho also finds an old journal where she has written to her 25 year old self, so that's an interesting angle, too. This is a big multi-volume collection which is layered, thoughtful and insightful about silence among friends about a particular friend who needs support. We all have them from time to time. What can we do for others? How can we say the things we need to say and do the things we need to do? This is a bittersweet series much deserving the accolades it has received. I'd say 4.5 at this point, but it just might get better. -
Sofort weg gesuchtet..tolle Story ! Bin gespannt wie es weitergeht !
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I wasn’t blown away by the story but it’s definitely made me want to pick up the 2nd volume (and more manga!). I need to know how the story unfolds!!!
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4.5 stars
THIS WAS SO CUTE OMG. If you ever feel a bit heartbroken or just generally need a pick me up, read Orange. This manga was so adorable and relatable but also dealt with some harder issues, I loved it so much. Would I have enjoyed it as much had I read it during a different time of my life? Most likely not. But for the mood I was/am in, this was absolutely perfect and exactly what I needed. It made me happy and I was able to lose myself in it for just a little bit. Thank goodness books like these exist and I have awesome Goodreads friends who bring them to my attention.
And am I bitter this didn't win the GR choice awards? Sure thing. -
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4.5 stars
This was so good! It was adorable and had a beautiful element of friendship. Such a cool concept that has a deeper meaning to it. It shows how little things can make all the difference. Anyways this was amazing and I must get my hands on the second collection!!
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Yikes :/ Dnf @ 25%
Umm so I don't really know what happened here. People praise this, the average rating is extremely high, but I don't get it. This is overhyped and overrated in my opinion.
Plot is alright, nothing super special but alright. But the reason I DNF'd is the structure. Text all over the place, sometimes I don't even know what it is. There's text bubbles in a square with no arrows and no people, so I have no idea who is talking. The timeline jumps back and forth but doesn't give me a single clue as to when it jumps and I don't usually know what timeline I'm in until it's already started.
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A MILLION STARS!
My goodness, I don't think I have ever read a book that has made me swoon right from the first page. This manga has reduced me to a single huge beating heart. I want to declare my love for everyone and everything!!! Ahhhhh, it's the CUTEST read ever! <3
Orange is a wonderfully-written and beautifully-illustrated manga focusing on the romantic feelings between Naho and Kakeru, two high-school students. Naruse Kakeru is a new transfer from Tokyo and immediately catches Naho's attention. She is really quite smitten with him but she is too shy to tell him how she feels.
Naho receives a letter from her future self (10 years in the future) which outlines a tragedy that occurs. These letters (which are in diary entry form) instruct Naho what to do in order to prevent the tragedy.
I don't want to reveal too much about this story as it's a really lovely tale which honestly makes my heart melt. I see a lot of myself in Naho, and Kakeru is beautiful. Actually, I quite like Suwa too, and the girls (Azusa and Taka Chan) are hilarious!
The romance in this story is a slow-burning one but I am choosing to savour every minute of it. It's a precious gem of a manga and I encourage EVERYONE to read it. Honestly, you will be hard-pushed to find anything more adorable and the artwork is STUNNING!!! Like, achingly so!
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Short spoilery review for volume 1 & 2 on my blog by clicking on the following banner.
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You know when you read a book that makes all the other books out there obsolete?
THIS IS THAT BOOK
I gave it 5 stars, but really I wish I could have given it 6 stars, 7 stars, 8 million stars.
Also, can we talk about how aesthetically pleasing the cover is? It's all green and trees and it just radiates warmths - totally my jam!
Orange deals with a topic that I am usually not comfortable reading about. Mostly because it's almost never handled well in books (at least the ones I read). But this, this is BEAUTIFUL. I am still at a loss for words. Which is curious, because this being manga, it also didn't have that many words in it (relative to its 500+ page count), but it relayed emotions and feelings in the strongest, most heart wrenching and best possible way.
It is true what they say - a picture is worth a thousand words.
The cast of characters is amazing. They all have very unique personalities, and the way they come together is absolutely beautiful. Hands down the best portrayal of a large group friendship in a book.
And while at times the main character Naho, was a bit hard to read because of her extreme timidness and indecisiveness - in the end I realized that she couldn't have been any other way. She was shy to start with, but the burden which was put on her, made all of her decisions that much harder for her.
There were many small details in the book which would resurface later and hit you right in the feels. Orange is a masterpiece, and I am praying in my heart that volume two is just as good.
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This was so beautiful and pure and I loved every second of it! I cannot wait to start the second one!
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I’ve been contemplating whether or not to read Orange for a while now. Recently, I came across someone on Goodreads who was reading it and absolutely loving it and it inspired me to finally pick it up…and I’m so glad that I did!
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What I Liked
The heavy topics mixed with lighthearted scenarios. I honestly had no idea how dark and sad that this manga would become at times. I thought it was going to be a lighthearted and fun story, but it gets really deep and intense. However, the juxtaposition of the darker moments mixed with the lighthearted ones worked really well together. I think this worked well because it highlighted the fact that no matter how happy and okay someone seems on the outside, you never really know what’s going on in their heads.
The characters. The characters are all so great and so different from one another. They all have their own unique personalities which is great, especially because there are six of them. I thought it may be hard to keep track of who was who, but it was the complete opposite. I love that they each have their own flaws and issues that they have to deal with on a daily basis. Orange is a very character driven story so I’m really glad that the characters were paid attention to and given their own distinct personalities.
The sci-fi twist. Not only is Orange a story that deals with some pretty serious social issues, it also manages to sneak in a little bit of a science fiction twist. Our main character, Naho, receives a letter from her future self that warns her about the different choices that she and her friends make and how it effects their lives. It touches a bit on time travel and the effect that time travel can have if you change the future. It also touches on the idea of parallel universes which I thought was pretty cool. Time travel and alternate timelines are two concepts that completely baffle my mind. It was pretty cool to see these ideas being mentioned in a contemporary setting.
The way it hits you in the feels. This book made me feel some type of way. It was heartbreaking, yet beautiful and I don’t even know how to comprehend these conflicting emotions! I definitely got teary eyed reading a few particular scenes while other moments had me smiling and feeling happy. Just know that this story completely plays with your emotions.
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What I Didn’t Like
I loved everything. Clearly, there really wasn’t anything to dislike about this story. I absolutely loved everything about it!
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Overall, this was such an amazing book and my second ever venture into the world of manga! I can’t wait to read the second volume and see how this story concludes! I’m sure it will be an emotional rollercoaster.
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Initial post-reading thoughts:
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4 stars
Stepped out of my literary comfort zone and into a cute teenaged love-and-time-travel Japanese manga story. Definitely cute, definitely memorable, and definitely unfair of the collection to leave me hanging at the end of volume one.
Art style:★★★★★
Kept my attention: ★★
Wholesome-ness: ★★★★
Real quick: I'm not a manga reader. In fact, manga is probably toward the bottom of my reading preferences, along with wartime-era historical fiction and self-help books. I love the art styles and the concepts, but there's always something about their stories that I find hard to keep my attention.
I'm not sure why, it's definitely down to my reading tastes and not the genre as whole. That said, I surprisingly enjoyed Orange.
Orange follows the high school escapades of Naho, a girl who finds herself mysteriously finding a letter written by her future self to her past self in the 11th grade. The letter has all sorts of daily predictions and wishes for the "past" Naho to fulfill in order to prevent something terrible from happening. As Naho begins to discover that this letter is in fact telling the truth, she tries to follow its instructions and prevent the event from happening.
Like most manga that I've skimmed, heard about, or picked up, Orange revolves around a dreamy male love interest whom Naho's story is fixated on. I was a bit irritated to find out that Naho's story was essentially eclipsed in favor of her fixation on securing the happiness of the love interest—as important and well done as this arc proved to be—but again, I realize that is my reading preferences enforcing expectations on a genre that I don't usually read.
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The last time I read a manga... I was a teenager. I didn’t enjoy manga back then.
Funny how things change.
I loved this. I LOVED IT. I cried, I laughed, I cried some more, and I laughed some more. I was emotionally invested in this story from the beginning.
This was fantastic and it’s definitely going to be the book that opens of a whole new world of manga reading for me!
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I really enjoyed this, however at times i found the main character to be kind of annoying with some of her decisions but I’m excited to read the second complete collection.
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Rating: 5+/5
Oh, Orange... <3
Sunt sigură că până acum ați realizat faptul că sunt o fană manga și anime. Nu am reușit să văd extrem de multe anime sau să lecturez așa multe manga în ultima perioadă, dar am reușit să relecturez o manga care îmi este la suflet.
Orange de Takano Ichigo este o manga alcătuită din 5 volume. Primele 3 volume au fost incluse într-o colecție pe care am reușit să mi-o achiziționez prin luna februarie a acestui an. Am savurat aceasta manga imensă până de curând, și mi s-a părut foarte fain să redescopăr povestea interesantă și fantastică a șase prieteni.
În centrul acțiunii se află o tânără pe nume Naho Takamiya, care în prima zi de școală a clasei a 11-a primește o scrisoare venită din viitor, de peste 10 ani, de la... ea însăși.
Ea consideră că scrisoarea este o glumă, însă nu pentru mult timp. Tot ceea ce scrie în scrisoare se adeverește încă din primele minute de când ajunge la școală, loc unde Naho îl va descoperi pe noul ei coleg de clasă, Kakeru Naruse.
Uimită de ceea ce citește în scrisoare, aceasta chiar simte o teamă pe care trebuie să o înfrângă pe cât de repede posibil, întrucât viața lui Kakeru va depinde de acțiunile lui Naho.
Alături de Naho, am cunoscut alte 4 personaje importante la acțiune: Azusa Murasaka, Takano Chino, Saku Hagita și Hiroto Suwa. Toți aceștia se vor implica în cadrul desfășurării evenimentelor pentru a reuși să îl salveze pe Kakeru de la moarte.
O poveste extrem de frumoasă despre prietenie, presărată cu dragoste, gelozie, neînțelegeri, teamă și amuzament pe alocuri, primele trei volume din Orange m-au făcut să trăiesc alături de personaje cum nu de multe ori mi se întâmplă.
M-am bucurat de fiecare cadru în parte, și m-am îndrăgostit de stilul în care Ichigo Takano a desenat această manga.
În aceste primele trei volume am stat cu inima strânsă, neștiind cum vor reuși personajele să îl ajute pe Kakeru. Am observat cât de temătoare este Naho, ea nereușind de foarte multe ori să își exprime sentimentele față de cei din jur. Cu toate că scrisoarea o înștiințează de regretele pe care le va avea peste 10 ani, ea tot nu reușește să treacă peste reținerile ei și să facă tot posibilul pentru a ajunge mai aproape de sufletul lui Kakeru. Se simte legată de mâini și de picioare, iar de multe ori își transmite sentimentele într-un mod greșit.
Naho însă nu este singura care face acest lucru, Kakeru fiind la fel de timid și retras cu ceea ce simte. Masca zâmbitoare pe care el o afișează este doar de fațadă, tristețea pe care o ascunde fiind atât de adâncă încât îi poate aduce sfârșitul.
Mi-a plăcut să văd o mică paralelă între lumea personajelor aflate în prezent, și cea a celor din viitor. Toată ideea de time travel, conceptul universurilor paralele, și alte nebunii de acest gen, m-au atras extrem de mult și m-au făcut din ce în ce mai curioasă.
Nu vreau să vă spun ce se întâmplă sau să vă dau alte spoilere, dar vă recomand din toată inima această serie. Este în topul preferatelor mele, și cred că reușește să combine foarte bine romantismul și prietenia ,cu elementele de călătorie în timp.
Personajele mi s-au părut expresive, au reușit prin acțiunile și replicile lor să mă atingă pe suflet, și abia aștept să apară la vară și adaptarea anime de care sunt entuziasmată. :D Până atunci, aștept să îmi ajungă și The Complete Collection 2 omnibus care conține celelalte 2 volume, pentru a avea toată această serie minunată în bibliotecă. ^_^
Citate:
"- It's a bit late to say something now... I'll just live with it!
- If all you do is «live with it»... then that's not much of a life." (p.50)
"The orange juice... was sweet, yet sour. The taste of sorrow." (p.146)
"Maybe it's impossible to live life without any regrets. Even when you know the future... you'll still mess up." (p.163)
"To my future self... Thank you... for sending the letter. I wonder if... today's present from Kakeru... reached the «Me» in the future...?" (p.215)
"«Regrets»... I regret how timid and meek I was back then... always telling myself that I couldn't do anything, never even daring to try. That's definitely something I regret. " (p.330)
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"A mí yo de hace 10 años: vas a estar bien."
2016 Reading Challenge #22: A graphic novel.
Durante casi un mes sufrí el peor reading slump de mi vida. No sólo no podía leer nada, sino que deje de disfrutar la lectura. De pronto, contemplar el techo durante horas me parecía más interesante que los libros. Por más que me esforzara, nada me interesaba, ni cautivaba. Ya
Mariantonella me había recomendado leer un manga pero, de nuevo, no encontraba ninguno que me llamara la atención. Hasta que, por casualidad, me topé con Orange.
Naho tiene 16 años cuando recibe una carta escrita por sí misma diez años en el futuro. La carta recita los hechos exactos del día, incluyendo la transferencia de un nuevo estudiante en su clase llamado Naruse Kakeru. La Naho de diez años más tarde afirma que tiene muchos remordimientos, y quiere solucionar estos asegurándose de que la Naho del pasado pueda hacer las decisiones correctas, sobretodo en relación con Kakeru quien, la carta asegura, morirá si nada cambia.
Orange tiene la trifecta ganadora: amor, amistad y viajes en el tiempo. Con dibujos encantadores, una trama argumental emocional y una escritura hermosa, Ichigo Takano nos presenta una historia de arrepentimientos y segundas oportunidades, donde se entrelazan temas fuertes con amor y muchísima amistad. Y que te hace preguntarte una y otra vez: Si pudieras cambiar el pasado, ¿lo harías?
Todo comienza de manera bastante bastante tierna y divertida: visiones de un presente repleto de risas y romance, pero pronto las lineas temporales se cruzan y comienzan a alternarse momentos del presente con el futuro. Es en estos flash-forward donde, poco a poco, Takano nos va revelando la complejidad e importancia de las cartas, el crecimiento que atraviesan cada uno de los personajes -de jóvenes despreocupados a adultos llenos de deseos y remordimientos- y el acontecimiento que los llevó a tratar de cambiar el pasado."Siempre estaremos juntos. ¡Incluso dentro de 10 años! Nosotros estaremos esperando por ti."
Ese desarrollo de los personajes es justamente el punto fuerte de la historia. Si la lees esperando encontrarte con una gran explicación del viaje en tiempo vas a salir decepcionado, ese es un plot-hole enorme. Orange es totalmente character-driven y Takano -like a boss- hace un trabajo magistral creando un grupo lleno de defectos y virtudes que se complementan entre si. Desde la tímida, linda y angelical Naho(un estereotipo extremadamente japonés que ya debería ir caducando)hasta el intelectual y sarcástico Hagita. Es imposible no enamorarse todos... y de su amistad. Esa amistad que está llena de bromas, cariño y sueños de juventud y donde puedes sentir el afecto, el apoyo y lo incondicional. Se siente tan auténtica que quieres estar allí con ellos y formar parte de su grupo. Por siempre.
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THIS BOOK GAVE ME ALL THE FEELZ™
Be it heart fluttering romance, soul crushing hopelessness and ultimately, bittersweet happiness, Orange had just about everything I wanted from it. But not more.
Which is why I'm going to settle this beautiful manga with four stars— the artwork and storyline weren't anything beyond the realm of ordinary, but it's the characters we get to meet that made this read a special one.
Finishing all 22 chapters in one sitting took me on a journey of ups and downs, with emotions all around, and I LOVED every second of it. So thank you, Ichigo Tagano, for leaving us with this uplifting piece of art. It found me just when I needed it. <3
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