Aug 30, 2020
It leaves as quickly as it comes. For a quick summary spoiler free; it's worth a read as it's a very quick 28 chapters, decent art, and the start is very strong.
Spoilers below:
28 chapters sure flies by quick, especially when it pulls you in so well at the start. I was excited since the beginning truly shows what raw anxiety, stagnation, and a bit of depression can do to a person. A spiral of insanity as we peered into the mind of someone at the edge of humanity in SOL format is what I was hoping for. Instead we are given a rather lovey-dovey
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feel good ending, where the light is shown at the end of the tunnel within a mere 28 chapters! The artstyle is cute, light, while also being dreary (a good thing!) sometimes. Eyes are what set characters apart alot of times.
My biggest gripe is the coincidences that act as saviors for the MC. Oh a coworker wants to be friends, oh shes extremely nice, oh shes desperate to be friends, oh she's also lonely and thinks the same as the MC, oh every time a misunderstanding could happen its cleared up through eavesdropping, oh the manager is also kind, ETC ETC. It stops the story from having any real meaning. In real life these are extraordinary situations, usually those who fall down in the way the MC does do not get free rides like this. In some ways it reminds me of Welcome to the NHK,in which a depressed and lonely MC meets friends and encounters wild situations. A key exception with that comparison is that the unrealistic friends and situations in NHK turned out to be just as broken or awful as the MC of NHK himself. This tranforms the friends from being a savior, into a more nuanced look at how broken people generally meet and befriend other broken people.
The characters of this manga (only two worth mentioning really) themselves are well done, especially the MC who carries the manga start to finish. Certainly the author must have some first hand experience in the kind of troubles that come to those with anxiety. The friend is fine in her personality, but her circumstance and relationship (story related really) to the MC are questionable.
It's cute, its quick, its depressing, its lighthearted. You get alot for28 chapters. 6/10: slightly above average, if the story was tad stronger then a 7/10 for sure.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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