Mar 7, 2023
Very original concept.
Kokoro sees two women/girls together, sketches their love story after her imagination and afterwards we get to see a glimpse of the women's actual realities.
Each of the short stories (both the daydreams and the reality afterwards) are very interesting; I'm honestly surprised some of these haven't been used for a stand-alone or a whole manga series. (or they have and I just don't know about it.)
The manga is similar to an anthalogy, and basically is, except it keeps going back to the main story, which is Kokoro's life. She herself is lesbian and has known for while that she has no interest
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in men. She loves daydreaming about Yuri, but the yuri sketches, together with her best friend Amami, all started after her father (a CEO) announced something very horrible to Kokoro: after graduating from high school, she has to marry an older man (he's about 30). She's marked that event in her calendar as her death (no, she's not planning to kill herself but she'd rather die than marry a guy) and the only thing that would keep her alive is Yuri. That's why she's going to fill her sketchbook with different Yuri love stories from strangers she encounters in public, and Amami helps her.
As someone who never wants to marry either, I can imagine how horrible it must be for Kokoro to be forced into a marriage, especially this young. And even more so with a gender you despise. And someone you've never met.
The way her fiancé is drawn adds also to the horror.
The yuri stories in-between really help me to get through, because Kokoro's life is pretty suffocating. It was fine in volume 1, but especially volume 3 is very heavy.
Maybe that's just me though, but either way, very recommendable. Original concept, interesting & different characters & stories, and nice art.
I can't wait to read volume 4!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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