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.











That part was so cute wtf