Feb 3, 2023
I assume that I have read few shojo in my life as a comic book reader, but I find this very delicate in telling the story of this girl who has just come out of adolescence and begins to take her first steps as an adult and with time will have to leave old habits, such as falling in love with popular stars, a girl who has a complicated relationship with her body, much taller and more muscular than her other peers, with the desire to know true and pure love and beyond, the crushes or infatuations. There are three of her family, she, her
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sister and her mother, her father is not present because he is a university professor traveling around the world and because of the divorce when she was still very young. This comic is a slow succession of events that will lead Sumiko (the protagonist) to change and evolve, with this the author explains what she went through from the end of adolescence to maturity despite everything that follows, such as the fact that it causes me not little susceptibility, the fact that a man cannot go near the kitchen or the fact that one must not say that a man knows how to cook well, I hope it is a sporadic fact because otherwise these Japanese are a bit retrograde. The author and Keiko Ichiguchi, Japanese who moved to Italy to study drawing, I met her with the book "Why the Japanese have almond-shaped eyes" where she explains anecdotes of her life in Japan, of Japan itself and its relationship with Italy and its inhabitants, His drawing style and very particular differs from other shojo manga for his with a delicate and soft hatching and the settings (including Milan in one of the chapters) are done very well, the shojo manga is a genre where the mangaka, not only puts the dialogues, but also the thoughts of the character and the author, which often causes real headaches, which does not happen in this manga where the tables breathe and the times , both comedic and serious are treated in an exemplary way. I hope to also read the other works of the author to make the comparison.
I give this one-shot manga 9 for drawing and 8 for story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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