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A review by elderlingfool
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 9 by Akiko Higashimura
2.0
Unfortunately, the ending brought the entire story down. I understand that this was another tale about choosing love instead of settling for a confortamble life, but that is just not my perspective as someone that is also 33 years old now.
In the end, the main character simply decided to leave a nice stable guy that would make her happy for the sad asshole guy that she loves and she decides that what will make her happy is to make him happy even if he doesn't love her as much (what?). She even asks what she has to change in order for him to love her, which was exactly the issue she had with a former guy she dated and one of the reasons she broke up with him... I would be fine if she ended up with sad guy if she had never been with the other nice guy and if she didn't decide to basically live just for the one guy she currently loves. I kept reading this manga hoping for an ending that would be different than this end goal that I was expecting, but in that way it was predictable. At least it was realistic enough to not make the guy instantly love her back, but the reason he was interested in the main character in the first place is because she resembles his dead lover (I hate this kind of plot line).
On a happier note, the women decided that they like hanging out to drink and complain and nothing changed much in that aspect. At least, the friends of the main character decided not to keep seeing the cheaters too. That is why the volume gets 2 stars instead of 1.
In the end, the main character simply decided to leave a nice stable guy that would make her happy for the sad asshole guy that she loves and she decides that what will make her happy is to make him happy even if he doesn't love her as much (what?). She even asks what she has to change in order for him to love her, which was exactly the issue she had with a former guy she dated and one of the reasons she broke up with him... I would be fine if she ended up with sad guy if she had never been with the other nice guy and if she didn't decide to basically live just for the one guy she currently loves. I kept reading this manga hoping for an ending that would be different than this end goal that I was expecting, but in that way it was predictable. At least it was realistic enough to not make the guy instantly love her back, but the reason he was interested in the main character in the first place is because she resembles his dead lover (I hate this kind of plot line).
On a happier note, the women decided that they like hanging out to drink and complain and nothing changed much in that aspect. At least, the friends of the main character decided not to keep seeing the cheaters too. That is why the volume gets 2 stars instead of 1.