Shin'yuu no Furin Aite wa, Otto deshita

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love how it has a 'thriller' tag. i suppose an affair is thrilling in the immoral way, tho i'd also expect a psych tag since some cheating stories have it

This better have a satisfying payoff, because it sure isn't worth reading just for the art.

I don't mind a more serious art story but yeah this kinda art style unless it's more stylized like that lesbian mangaka's is more usually used for autobiographies or slice of life/foodie manga
 
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Aw man, I was so sad when I saw the "End" marker on the final chapter :(
It was a nice, pretty short story though! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
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I sometimes wanted to ask myself while reading the author's (sometimes optimistic?) comments: ma'am, are your... are (were?) your friends okay???

I know that some of this feels telenovelesque and a bit wish-fulfillment (ie Haruto's role, which, tbh? I feel that the author wanted to present us at least a "decent" man with all the kerfuffle of the cheating situation), but frankly I kinda see that it's also to present us a very real situation that many Japanese women are trapped (for lack of a better word) into due to their culture values (the divorce laws' explanation-attachment in one of the chapters is very helpful in that regards... geez :(). There's lot here that truly makes you reflect about their values and such. But it's always at the cost of what (like, losing friendships, for example).

A bit of "I can understand also why many Japanese millenials/gen z do not choose to marry these days". If you want a bit of a palate cleanser? I would recommend watching (or reading? maybe? it was adapted from a manga by Youko Nemu) "Turn to Me, Mukai-kun" which is a series about an early 30s Japanese man wanting a romance after being a decade w/o a girlfriend and an interesting insight about dating, romance, and marriage while in that age, with different point of views about all of it.
 
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