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A review by dame_samara
After the Rain, Vol. 1 by Jun Mayuzuki
1.0
Sometimes I pick up books solely because it's something a teenage Sam would have sought out and read. So being that there was a time when I consumed EVERY "May/December" Romance Manga I could get my hands on when I came across one that didn't look too terrible, I acquiesced and read some of it.
Characters: Akira...feels one-dimensional in many ways... Nothing much more then than what we see in the synopsis... A girl (literally) who is in love with her Boss...
We could make a leap and say Akira is in the throws of Grief and Depression due to her crippling injury, which took away her passion for running. So she instead turned her fervor on the next thing that shone even the slightest bit of light into her life, Boss/Kondo.
To make it worse, Boss doesn't have much personality, either. Nothing that makes you as a reader go, OH, this is why she is interested in him.
Even if Akira were ten years older, it would feel like this relationship was inappropriate.
The one thing I enjoyed about this manga was the scene where they both stand under a tree and suddenly Kondo feels young again, like he could be young and in love again. It would have been charming in any other Manga; it just couldn't hit the same in this manga.
Would I recommend it?
No. There ends up being nothing super appealing about it.
Characters: Akira...feels one-dimensional in many ways... Nothing much more then than what we see in the synopsis... A girl (literally) who is in love with her Boss...
We could make a leap and say Akira is in the throws of Grief and Depression due to her crippling injury, which took away her passion for running. So she instead turned her fervor on the next thing that shone even the slightest bit of light into her life, Boss/Kondo.
To make it worse, Boss doesn't have much personality, either. Nothing that makes you as a reader go, OH, this is why she is interested in him.
Even if Akira were ten years older, it would feel like this relationship was inappropriate.
The one thing I enjoyed about this manga was the scene where they both stand under a tree and suddenly Kondo feels young again, like he could be young and in love again. It would have been charming in any other Manga; it just couldn't hit the same in this manga.
Would I recommend it?
No. There ends up being nothing super appealing about it.