Kimi ga Shinu Natsu ni
In the summer when you die

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STORY:
The story is about student murders but with the concept of parallel worlds and time-traveling. Honestly, I'm so confused at a lot of parts that I had to reread previous chapters. There are a lot of plot twists, so much that I made a few pretzels.

ART:
Nothing special.

CHARACTER:
The characters have some crazy in them. I mean, it's a supernatural mystery with crime and drama. And that makes them good for this. The antagonists are so good, that it made me not drop it. Although the main characters do get annoying.

ENJOYMENT:
I enjoyed it at first, then my brain melted somewhere in between, then it tried to reconstruct ... itself. And I reached the end, kind of satisfied.

OVERALL:
If I knew how confusing it'll be for me, I would've skipped it. It's not bad, but it hurts my brain with all the complicated stuff. You can try it, just expect some puzzling matters.

Thanks for reading my review and God bless.

The whole serie revolves around the 2 main characters, yamano and tanigawa. Back in middle school Yamano find a missing button for Tanigawa. This is where it reveal that yamano got a crush on tanigawa then fast forwarded to highschool, Tanigawa suddenly approach him then reveal to him that she's dead. However, Yamano then found an alive Tanigawa walking around. The dead Tanigawa then told him that she was killed but don't know when or by who. Yamano then go out to try solving the mystery and the two of them (yamano and dead tanigawa) get to know each other more and more along the ... way.

As you can tell from the synopsis, it really feels like slice of life meet supernatural mystery but it really just feel like romance slice of life show. I'm not saying it's a bad thing that it turns out like this but it does feel like the mystery element slowly fell off along the way. Like they constantly trying to solve the case throughout but whenever they're getting serious, there's always something breaking the atmosphere and return it back to slice of life.

This serie tries to be a lot but I think the only thing that's decent about it is the romance and since it's a short serie, the build-up feels pretty lackluster because they tries so hard to make the mystery part interesting but what really sold the whole show is the chemistry between the two mc and I'd say the ending did both of them justice by making it emotional.

I really don't really know where to continue this review lol so yeah if you're looking for a slice of lifey romance manga with a little mystery on top then I'd recommend it. It did it job pretty well consider it's pretty short (3 hours read for me).

Although it has its moments, this is a pretty weak story. It has some serious pacing issue, and the character interactions feel very unrealistic. Minor spoilers ahead

First, pacing. The author tried and fit as much plot progression as possible into every chapter. This leads to the story feeling very rushed right from the start. Despite the subject at hand involving death, bullying, ... it failed to create a tense atmosphere that draws you in as a normal mystery would (apart from a few moments). There are twists and turns, but overall it felt like the MC was able to figure things out way too easily. ... The romance sub-plot, which actually does play a big part in the mystery, also falls apart because of it.

Second, how the characters interact with one another. Again, in order to progress the plot, the author really skimmed over this part. Everyone the MC talks to would just willingly give him the info he needs, even ppl that he supposedly never even talked to before. Break-ins, stalking, etc. done by the MC is treated so casually it's almost baffling. No one ever seriously questions anything he does.

Overall, it's an average story at best, with nothing of substance to carry it. I would recommend finding other manga to read.