To touch on the art for a bit, it's from the 90s, so you get what you expect. You get used to it after a bit, but nothing looks particularly pretty. At one point, the main character mentions someone is beautiful on a full page panel, and you think "well... if you say so."
As for the plot, it's very similar to Glass Mask, but the twist is that she writes plays instead of acting. Interestingly, there's almost no drama. There's some, but it all gets very quickly resolved. The story focuses on her development as a writer but the manga falls short here. You would expect that with every script she writes, she learns a lesson, discovers something she was missing, and slowly gets good at writing scripts.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. Yuu becomes a good writer exceptionally fast. Everything she does is a success. It never seems that her scripts are missing anything except at one part of the story. When she improves her writing, there is no concrete reason for why. She just kinda gets better with experience, and that's it. And it all happens too fast. You become a good writer with experience, or so i've heard, but she becomes a professional writer in what seemed no time at all. Maybe it's because it's because she's super talented or something but it still feels off.
It all ends up with a surreal feeling. The audience doesn't get any profound insight into writing which is a huge missed opportunity. It's this that keeps me from rating it any higher than an 8.
The characters are all okay. Everyone is pretty pleasant, but there are no strong characters. Everyone is bland and boring. This is related to there not being any drama. None of the character's pasts are explored. characters disappear as quickly as they are introduced. You only the see surface of their characters. Maybe it's because the story is told from Yuu's point of view, and we only see what Yuu views, but it makes it so none of the characters leave any big impressions on you. Even Yuu, her character doesn't go beyond really nice person who doesn't give up.
The ending was okay. It wasn't exactly what i was expecting, and i was a little confused at to whether i had actually finished reading the manga. I found the ending was very open ended. I would have like to see Yuu grow even more and do more plays.
Overall it was enjoyable. Don't thing that i hated it because of this review. If you want to read why it's a good manga, there's always people who give it 10/10 so read their reviews. I wrote this for people who want to know the negatives to contrast other reviews, so that's why there's mostly negative stuff in this review.Everything was good but not great, it clearly missed out on things that a 10/10 manga would have but i would still recommend it. I read it all in one sitting which says something about it. If you want to read something about a girl finding her passion in life, it's certainly worth your time.
