Yuru
Koi by Yoshino Aki
Genre: Josei (16 and up,
it’s tame)
Length: 1 Volume - 3
Chapters 2 Extras
Art wise, this manga is very nice,
the faces are expressive, though a couple of times at three quarters view, the
eyes looked way too close together. Backgrounds are typical, nothing amazing to
note. The clothes are nice, a little on the baggy style.
Suzu has moved back to her parents’
country home after working in the big city, disheartened that things did not go
as she wanted. Feeling over worked and tired of people who use her or don't
understand her, she gets lost in thought as she finds her way home at night and
falls into a hidden hole in the snow. Suzu realizes nothing ever works out like
she plans them to and indulges in some self-pity. A stranger finds her stuck, a
handsome young man, and she takes her frustrations out on him after he saves
her going so far as to cry on his shoulder. It makes her feel better, venting
to a stranger, but it turns out, since he makes the dishes for her father's
cafe, they'll actually be seeing a lot of each other. Suzu could just about die
of embarrassment!
In the author's note of chapter one,
Yoshino Aki mentions that the story is not just a love story but a slow and
gentle love story, and that really comes across. Yuru Koi is just an ordinary
love story about two people getting to know each other at their own pace. Its
slow and easy and just a nice story. I really wish there was more of it. The
two extra chapters are good, too, though the last one is a continuation of a
previous work so you don't get much character there. Yuru Koi is a manga to
read right after a long manga full of hand wringing and love triangles, it’s a love
story you wish
could happen to you.
4/5 Recommended, if it had one more
chapter about Suzu I think it would have been a five.
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| Art and Story (c) Yoshino Aki |
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