Salad Days

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First of all, yes, the art work is not great. It is after all from 1999. The scans could be a lot better. HOWEVER, the stories are great. The mangaka is a bloody genius at telling them.

Overall the stories cover everything from the ordinary falling-in-love one-shot type, to the mystical, to the "how do you recover from losing the one you love."

As the other reviewers have said, these are mostly 1-3 chapter stories, but, there is one story that covers 10 (approximately) years in the lives of two characters, Yuki and Futaba, ... beginning with the day the first met. If you read nothing else, read these chapters. By themselves they tell a story better than most all mangas of the type.


The pertinent chapters are:

24-26, 29-30, 53-54, 60, 67, 75-76, 83, 91, 102-104.

Salad Days is a compilation of stories. Though, there seems to be a main story to it-- in which the writer focuses on and continue, since most of the stories are one-shots.
The stories are sweet and great. They give you this heart-warming sensations and some stories could bring tears to your eyes.
The art is also wonderful. I think the artist did great on the shadings and bringing the art to seem so alive.
One of my all-time favorite manga. I would gladly reread it and reminisce on the days where I first read this manga.

Salad Days is quite the cute little romance series. :) I found it rather enjoyable and couldn't help but find the rest of the books after I first stumbled upon them. The short, individual stories also mean you don't necessarily have to read the books in order either, or keep up with all the small details.