Seishun no After
After the memories

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Imagine reading a Time Traveler's Wife but instead of Henry you have a kinda yandere girl and Claire is actually an adult man moving into his middle age who wants to move on from her. And you have Seishun no After. The plot is one of the more interesting ones in romance manga. It's done well; the emotional ties and strangleholds and traumas everyone inflicts upon and has inflicted from each other are captivating and interesting. The ending is somewhat rushed, though if readers pay attention when reading they will understand that it is not the end, but the beginning of a closed loop that ... any true time travel manga should have. Its primary weakness is that for a time travel manga that is about popping in and out of time, it encompasses too narrow of a segment of Makoto's life. Unlike Claire from again, the aforementioned Time Traveler's Wife, we only really see the early thirties of Makoto's life portrayed in the manga, with some bits from high school put in to fill out the backstory. If given more pages and allowed to run the full marathon, this rating would be a 9 or 10 rather than simply an 8.

Overall it's a highly enthralling plot done for the most part well with only minor pacing issues. It wraps itself up pretty nicely, and leaves no hanging threads at the end that ruin the writing. Pretty short at 27 chapters, it's well worth the time spent sitting down to read it if you enjoy drama stories about the nature of time, youth, pining love, and maturing.