jj's Reviews

This feels like a rare type of manga on this site that focuses more on a fluffy slice-of-life & comedy feel! It’s very fun to see the different characters and how they interact, too! Especially interesting to see how they act in general and how their occupations and relationships influence them. I also enjoyed having the MC being relatable with loving cute stuff, anime, and acting childlike and nerdy while being insecure about it! Even though the only anime she likes are kids anime in particular. Overall, I love this manga and keep it dear to my heart. I really really do hope I get to afford to read more in the future!

I love how with both stories, there’s no good and bad guy like there typically is in these kind of stories. Instead, both the wife and husband are equally complex with their own issues and flaws. No one here is truly a bad partner nor is shamed by the narrative for their flaws. Instead, the narrative is subtly very understanding and objective. Rather than anything malicious, it’s both parties’ flaws in both stories that initially drive them apart again and again. It makes for some very messy and difficult conflicts, yet not the kind that’s overly dramatic.

I love how there’s no stereotypical gender roles in both stories, too. The characters do acknowledge society’s standard gender role expectations, but other than that, they don’t really define their relationships. They’re just individual people trying their best in their lives. It’s fun to see the children being treated seriously and written differently, too. Rather than being treated as a convenient narrative tool for garnering pity or increasing the stakes.

Overall, definitely worth the read. Especially if you can relate to any of them. I personally related the most to Ayaka and Takayuki, so it felt healing seeing them written in such a human, validating way. It’s so interesting reading slightly uncommonly depicted occupations, personalities, or tropes being written so human for once, too. Gives you some serious insight into people like them.

Besides the absolutely gorgeous art and lovely character designs, I found myself really enjoying the unusually gentle, sweet, and mature vibe of this story. It’s refreshing having such a kind yet very emotionally mature FL. She’s a bit relatable to me, too. Leon’s quite the likable ML as well, esp to my personal tastes. He’s gentle and relatively different from the usual stoic, perfect, dominant ML. So Ruri & Leon are among my favorite FLs & MLs now, even though I find the confession stages of their romance to be too rushed.

I also love how seriously and believable the children are written. Especially Lina, who’s so cute but in a realistic way, and she feels so whole as a person. And I enjoyed the way Ruri’s journey in navigating through this new life was executed. Pleasantly surprised with it having the right balances of focus on things for the most part. Some dialogue can be a bit too cheesy at time (as in super kind lip service), but it’s fine. The characters mean it, so I try not to dwell on it much.

Overall, I’m very happy to finally get to finish reading this story. It’s become dear to me.

Thought this would be toxic and overly emotionally dependent of a relationship because of the ad, but this one was surprisingly handled well. It only raises eyebrows a few times, but is overall a good one healthy for Yuzu’s self-healing journey.

Yuzu, the MC, is especially written well. She’s shy and meek, but also realistically traumatized and often tries to stand up for herself in her own way. I usually see MCs on one extreme end or the other, so it’s rare and refreshing to find an MC as relatable as her.

Plus the ML, Reiya, has some personality beyond being perfect and of high status. Even though he’s a little boring and kind of weird a few times, he’s genuinely considerate and doesn’t often force the MC into doing or accepting things like a lot of MLs do.

Even the antagonists aren’t just cartoonishly awful like they usually are in other works; they emotionally feel human here, too. And not even always bad in nature.

Everyone’s actions and reactions are overall written to not feel too cartoonish or unbelievable, too. It’s a good mix of dramatic and believable.

The overall art’s also *super* gorgeous and stylistic, especially with Yuzu. Really love it. Definitely worth the read and free trial cost (as in using it to get more usable points out of your money), and will look forward to more.