Hotarubi no Mori E
(()) Collection of stories: • Ch. 1 & 4.5 Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light (Hotaru no Mori E) (Summer story) - Beautiful sad story! Especially, the anime movie has great visuals and soundtrack! My only complaint is that somehow [SPOILER] Gin's death seemed so random and sudden (just because a random human boy was tripping and he grabbed him!) that I didn't have the time to properly feel the moment and actually cry...at the most it left me with a bittersweet, melancholic feeling! Having said that, it still remains a beautiful story with tragic ending! 5 Anime movie: available at kissanime • Ch. 2 Overhearing a Flower Song (Spring story) - School Life // Music 3 • Ch. 3 The Fallling of Autumn Leaves (Autumn story) - School Life // Childhood Friends 3 • Ch. 4 Deepening the Scar (Winter story) - School Life // Reunion // Siblings // Incest // Brother x Sister // Bittersweet 3 Note: Apart from the "Hotarubi no Mori e - Special Chapter" (Ch. 4.5), the reprint contains also two other additional new stories called "Taion no Kakera" and "Hoshi mo Mienai", which are not scanlated, it seems...
Garden Dreams
Beautiful sad, melancholic, tragic story by Yoshinaga Fumi. [Baka-Updates] In the aftermath of the Crusades, two travelling Arabic minstrels - Farhad and Saud - arrive at the castle of the melancholic Baron Victor. Over a series of four connected short stories, Victor reveals the reasons for his sadness, the minstrels' own stories are revealed and, in very different ways, this fortuitous meeting allows all three to find a measure of contentment. Note: Actually it's not complete. It's a 1 volume story, but it's available only the second chapter.
Kimi wa suki no daimeishi
Collection of three stories: • Kimi wa "Suki" no Daimeishi • Hetakuso Kata Omoi • Towa ni Nemure > The first two school-life romance stories are ok, overall I liked them (3 stars). But the story I liked the most is the last one (actually I had already read that oneshot before), because it was my cup of tea (4 stars).
Claudine