Maya no Souretsu

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A short fairytale type of story, the one you can only lament there is no movie for (I can so pictue this being turned into a Ghibli movie). Probably one of the first shoujo ai there was and due to lengh the pacing is a bit off with a lot of stuff happing within 140 pages. Not gonna lie it does feel a bit confusing at first with how fast everything is happening. Even so the art is absolutely mesmerising adding a lot of fantastic elements to the story, taking you into a different world. It's insane how the manga makes you feel like there ... are supernatural forces invloved when actually there is nothing out of ordinary.

“Maya’s Funeral Procession'' is a delectable early 1970’s Shoujo drama that captures it’s thrilling story through strikingly severe visuals. This manga is one of the works that helped establish and reinforce early Yuri tropes, yet it still has much to offer as a succinct and fast paced melodrama beyond the historical intrigue of the work. Despite being so brief this manga makes good work of symbolism and foreshadowing, and unique among the Shoujo genre, it does a good job showing and not telling when it comes to characterization. I would have preferred this manga have the runtime to more fully explore it’s characters and their ... motivations, as well as more time for dramatic events to settle and gain traction so we could truly see the impact, but as far as I’m concerned this is a must read for lovers of early Yuri and Shoujo works.

It's a interesting shoujo ai manga about a rich girl named Reina who stays in a random summer villa and doesn't appear to have caring parents because they're marrying her off to a childhood friend she doesn't love. She meets Maya, a mysterious beautiful woman who wears a black long sleeved garment, and the two become closer as they learn more about one other. And, my God, there's so much more to the narrative than them falling in love, like there's quite a few plot twists in this shoujo ai people that you wouldn't expect to happen at all!

If you really like your mysterious, ... horror or GL, this short old skool manga is worth the read guys!