230625 (6.5) OH MY GOD I MIGHT CRY THAT WAS SO GODDAMN GOOD THIS DESERVES A HIGHER RATING WTF 8.8 DOES NOT DO THIS MASTERPIECE JUSTICE!! genuinely so well written and holy fuck that ending made me soo happy. i love these two characters they are so well fleshed out and it is especially impressive considering there are only 6 chapters !! also i knew i recognised this art style omg it's so distinctive. same author as 'Yoiyoi Monologue,' god the way they draw bodies is just SO beautiful. also my god do i love their character designs THEY LOOK SO GOODDD. i'm actually obsessed with this story the progression of it was just so well thought out and it's like i can feel exactly what the characters are experiencing i swear. i'm so sad to part with it !! only an one hour long journey but so much conveyed in so little time, i can't stop thinking about how good this was.
OH MY GOD I ALMOST FORGOT TO ADD but the little mermaid reference !!! it hit EXTRA hard because i had just studied an extract of it the other day for my illustration assignment and reinterpreted the scene. the author referenced to the perfect fairy tale for this story. not only bc of the idea that "monsters and humans live in different worlds" but also bc hans christian anderson was most likely a closeted homosexual. he wrote a love letter to a male friend who got engaged around the same time he wrote the fairy tale god this was beautiful.
i'm genuinely astonished at how good this was. i had no clue that i was gonna experience a whole masterpiece when i first clicked 'start reading' MANNN 8.8 does not do this justice. everything about this was so well crafted: characters, plot and art. god i love akemi and oka so much, the progression of their relationship throughout the story was just so phenomenally depicted.
sugura was also just the perfect side character for this story. i love how he distinctively feels like his own character too, as in not JUST serving as a wingman but having his own individual identity.
Otogibanashi wa Awa to Kie