Reviews

This is a corny romance with a trite message that despite being a short manga, drags on unnecessarily. The idea for this story is similar to an old passage from the bible. "Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, 'Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.'" I am not even religious and I feel like that the passage expresses the idea much better than this manga. At least there is no sappy romance or an incredibly unsophisticated drama.

Reading this manga felt like someone who doesn't have the faintest idea about poverty trying to poorly depict it. The feeble attempt to show the hardship of having little money feels numb when the characters are incredibly shallow and have so little personality. The contrast of trying to portray a realistic setting with such a pretty but flimsy cast is awful. Souta's mother might be the only character with an actual personality, but she is so poorly fleshed out that she ends up being the villain since in this story you are either an angel (like the male and female protagonists) or the devil. She could have been a complex and pitiful character, but instead she is just straight out evil.

This is the type of manga that if you read when you are young, you might think it is deep. But if you are older, most likely you have seen all things trying to be told in the story better portrayed in several other titles and mediums.