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Maybe a 7.5?

It's tough to review a work like this, because it's an anthology, and comprises two different stories, one of which will go on and intertwine with several others in other anthologies.

I am finding that I really like Takemiya Jin's storytelling quite a bit, though her artwork doesn't really do it for me. With no memorable backgrounds (understandable for an artist working, so far as I can tell, without assistants), not a lot of variation in perspective or angle, a lot of weight has to be carried by the character designs/drawings, where I find the work a little too angular and rough for my ... taste.

The story more than makes up for it. Okay, we're talking about some serious high-drama territory here; and there are no happy endings (well, no endings at all in this book--the story gets continued in several other anthologies) but I admire the way that the work doesn't shy away from showing realistic women: women who are people, with all the concomitant flaws, including using each other and lying to each other and themselves. I also very much appreciate the way this author can bring authenticity to a genre that's often very bound by its conventions and cliches.

Character-wise, I think these characters (at least for the My Beloved series) grow and develop much more in later anthologies--and until then, there's not a lot to say about them. What we see here is bittersweet youth and not knowing what you have until it's lost; character is less important than theme and story.

Overall, Takemiya's is a fresh voice which deserves to be read, but it's an early work and later ones will be stronger.

Now this is just horrible the first oneshot was so good but scratch that the oneshot which had 3 chs in total was so horrible that i am writing this, i love yuri but man i also have my preferences it's not like I'll read any yuri, the second oneshot i hated that because the ending is so much tear giving, heartbreak moreover it just makes you upset from the inside it gives you feeling of emptiness I mean comeon why such a trash ending

Warning micro spoiler ahead.

In ending the girl just never contacted her bestfriend and avoided and in the end her bestfriend was ... with a new gf Outta nowhere I mean man why did i even read this i wish i never read that now i feel so empty from the inside it's killing me, dang it why can't they had been together in the end
I don't like this feeling i have no one like a gf or anything but man i do get so much empty feelings by reading these kinda yuri, i wanted that to be a good end
But it sucks damn i hate the author so much for making this u made me cry and it was not emotional cry it was tears of frustration.