A review by museaway
Season by Mitsuaki Asou, 麻生ミツ晃

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Azuma, the teenaged son of a deceased kimono maker, falls for the mysterious Matsuoka--a man who insists on caring for Azuma and his sickly mother, saying he is only paying back a kindness. As he falls in love, Azuma grows jealous of his father's memory, believing that he was Matsuoka's savior, but his eyes are opened in more than one way when he visits Matsuoka in Tokyo.

My absolute favorite by Asou Mitsuaki. I own it in Japanese. Her works are all so melancholy and beautiful. I'd do anything for another chapter of these two. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Matsuoka is a gangster and at one point is shown cutting off someone's ear. There's also a flashback scene where he's ostensibly working as a prostitute.