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Whole heartedly agree. It's impressive how the jumps don't feel jarring. Might I add that it helps us care for the characters by seeing their sweet interactions. Especially since Kiki can come off as abrasive.
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This is just my perspective, but I really enjoy the way the author shifts between different points in time (reading through the rest of their titles on here, they seem to do this a lot). I don’t see it a lot in manga, but I do see it a lot in other modes of writing, like short stories. I recently read through a bunch of Alice Munro’s short stories (totally different in every way from these stories) and she does a masterful job of weaving together a story from different points in time. Reading this manga, it felt like reading a short story by Munro. It is a higher level of complexity in writing that, unfortunately, you just don’t see a lot in manga.