I open with this line because this manga is more of a ghost story than romance, even if it is terribly romantic. It's like the author set out to meditate about love, loss and growth, and this manga is what came out of it, a story not really of the living or the living world, set in silent, beautiful places.
I liked it, but I can see how someone else might not, for its dreamy fairytale narrative, heavy on conversations and short on story. If you only care about the things you could fill a story sheet with - snappy elevator pitch, character as a motivation/flaw/learning engine, setting and its million moving pieces, all the crafty hollywood script things with which a story can be made - then I can tell you shouldn't read this manga right now. Maybe later.
This is a story you should read for its beauty.
