Aisubeki Musumetachi
All My Darling Daughters

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All My Darling Daughters was a surprising slice of life manga with a touch of feminism. The manga showcases imperfect women, mothers, and daughters in a collection of short stories. The stories explore the lives of each women and the choices that they have before them as they enter adulthood.

Each chapter features a different woman, related in some way to the main character, Yukiko. The story starts with Yukiko and her mother Mari, a widow for many years that suddenly marries a second time, this time to a younger man and former host. It’s a bittersweet story that sets the tone for the rest of ... the stories.

There are many topics that are covered throughout this manga like whether or not to get married, motherhood, the choice between work or being a homemaker. The second story was funny though troubling in that it immediately starts off with the sexual assault of a man. However, the message about a young woman being free to choose the kind of lover that she wants, even if her choices seem very poor, I felt was a good one.

The final chapter hit very close to home with my own experiences with my mother, a harsh woman that criticized my appearance while I was growing up. Yukiko’s grandmother reminded me of her with the way that she treated Yukiko’s mother, and how these experiences dictated how Mari later chose to raise her daughter. My mother was deeply impacted by my grandmother, who withheld love for her and sent her away to relatives. These experiences shaped how I raise my own daughters. So much is conveyed in a small package which speaks to the strength of the author as a storyteller. A great collection overall with themes that are still very relevant to women in the modern-day.

This book was awesome! I found it at the library and figured it would be some kind of sappy romance, but it's actually quite interesting. It weaves together the stories of several women all centered around one particular family. Each chapter focuses on a different relationship, either mother-daughter or someone's love life. We see how behaviors get passed from generation to generation and how peoples' pasts affect their presents. The character development is fantastic, especially for only being one volume. I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone that likes to read slice-of-life stories with drama and humor with a definite ... Japanese twist.

I found out about this manga via the Book Riot website and I have to be honest when reading the whole thing, I really felt it should’ve focused more on the first story than creating other ones that don’t really relate. Anyways it’s basically about a 30 year old salary woman Yukiko who still lives at home but her mother remarried a young man who’s 3 years younger than Yukiko. Yukiko doesn’t trust the guy since he was a host beforehand and the relationship with her mum is not going according to plan. That’s why Yukiko decides to move out. We then see the other ... stories such as a student x teacher realtionship story (it was honestly rushed plus absolutely dumb). Maybe this is me but I feel like this manga wasn’t really taken seriously of Yukiko and her mums relationship like if it was the main focus of the whole manga, I would have no bother with this manga. However putting in stories that aren’t really relating to the “mother-daughter” genre, didn’t make sense for me. I’m probably wrong but that’s how I felt while reading the rest of the manga.