I had such a hard time working on this series with Tranquil Spring. Simultaneously, i loved it. I poured my life into it. I put hundreds of hours of my time into scanning, TL-checking, cleaning, typesetting. I still have gigabyte-sized chapter PSDs on my file server, because everything was edited at full scan-resolution (my approach has always been to do it well enough we could literally print at full publish-quality). Work on it during the latter chapters was happening at a time in my life when…everything was falling apart. Working on a series that was obviously really good, but was gradually becoming more and more depressing really wasn't helping things. I loved the beautiful artwork; scanning this was amazing, it was clearly all traditional hand-drawn (not digital) artwork. The publisher did a good job with printing and the scans were easy to work with. But as the chapters pressed on, and time went by, everything was unraveling both in the story, and in my own life. Things kind of came to a head when a Japanese girl we were hosting at the time casually picked up the de-bound second volume that I was scanning, asked if it was okay to read. She flipped about halfway through, read for a bit, and said "this is not a happy story".
Everyone thinks this is yuri because Tranquil Spring picked it up and TS does yuri. It just is what it is.
I also still haven't finished reading it yet. Nothing past chapter 8, where I stopped. :\