Amayo no Tsuki (The Moon on a Rainy Night)

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

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Status: Publishing

Published: Jun 12, 2021 to ?

Genres: Drama, Girls Love

Theme: School

Serialization: Comic Days

Authors: Kuzushiro (Story & Art)

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The Moon on a Rainy Night

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One day, while rushing to a piano lesson, a girl named Saki collides with someone on the street. As Saki collects herself, the stranger picks up the sheet music Saki dropped, hands it to Saki together with a band-aid, and continues on her way—all without saying a word. Saki is left wondering about the identity of the tall, lovely stranger, only to discover the next day that she is one of her classmates at her new high school. The girl's name is Kanon, and though she is hearing impaired, she refuses any kind of support or "special treatment" from her teachers or classmates. Over the course of the year, Saki slowly grows closer to Kanon and begins to chip away at her cold exterior.

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Amayo no Tsuki has been published in English as The Moon on a Rainy Night by Kodansha USA since September 5, 2023.

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Oikawa, Kanon

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Kindaichi, Saki

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Oikawa, Rinne

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Sep 17, 2022

Call_me_Ben

Recommended

Preliminary (8/? eps)

The best way I can describe this is "A silent voice" meets "From now on we begin ethics."

It's about this girl who's somewhat deaf and her friend and their relationship as they spend more time together and learn about each other.

What I like about this manga is that it does such a good job of showing the hardships of being deaf while also talking about how we could improve on that. It's not just a plot device to make us feel sorry for the lead, it's just a way of saying "that's the kind of life she lives."

The cast of characters is very likable and ...

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Jul 21, 2023

BunnyBaronBarma

Recommended

Preliminary (21/? eps)

first off, this is a yuri or girls love, but not to any extreme extent. as the synopsis suggests, one of the girl named kanon is deaf, and she is "paired" with saki. if this is just the usual yuri, I wouldn't go as far as read it let alone write a review. what makes this series is so special is that it tackles the problem of disability, and showing how the person struggles by having that. perhaps there are some culture problems involved with some of the problems, but nonetheless shows how fragile the society is by just having 1 disabled person in one ... room. saki literally says this in the manga, but every word is a landmine for kanon. even a word or expression that has no ill intent, can be something kanon would detest due to her past. and because of this, the story is unpredictable in a scary way even though you know there's no killing or anything. just a relationship between the 2 where you wish they become happy, but one small misstep is all it takes to make things crumble. really shows how just being nice isn't the way to treat the disabled as it can backfire, and at the same time there's a way to treat such people without hurting. and I get the feeling that's how it feels like be in some relation with disabled person. although I do not have the audacity to say that I now know how to treat deaf person, it's not that simple at all. in fact that's what the manga would tell you, don't ever feel like you know how to treat disabled person.

some characters look really mean by the first look, but after opening the lid all of them have a reason why they act like that towards kanon/saki. now that doesn't sound that convincing because everyone has a reason to be mean to others. "i had a sad backstory so I'm trying to be a d*ck" is the typical reason for anything in any characters. this manga however, makes the reason very realistic to how some would have to go through. it's not a fantasy so of course even the backstory is realistic duh, yeah I get it. one thing that's a bit different is though, is how each characters have story behind what got them to have table turned because kanon become deaf. this itself is unique, none of the thing each one went through had kanon was normal. but it happened, because she got deaf. I have never experienced any disability people around me, so seeing this is fresh yet hits me in a reality. losing one of the 5 sense is all it takes to ruin the relationship and life, is what all of them shows you.

the art is good, the expression, the look of the girls are cute. the way author draws the panel and the speech panel is quite expressive, that it really depicts the situation.

if anyone really just so happen to stumble upon to this series, go take a try.

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Apr 7, 2025

Marleonka

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Preliminary (35/? eps)

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The main thing for me with this manga was how fast the story was progressing and it felt like never really committed to its subject matter. It's very bizarre in a lot of ways, how at the same time it tries desperately to find ways to mitigate the disability of the main lead (she can fully speak, has a special outfitted room so she can hear, is perfect at reading lips), but also introduce problems in how her disability affects her life that seem entirely arbitrary. Like the fact she has to "read the bus display" to know when to get out (which I think ... everybody does) or she doesn't want to eat with others, because she can't read their lips while they eat. Somehow nobody really thinks of the way to just talk when their mouth isn't full of food. Or how she can't tell when cars are coming at night, as if they didn't have headlights. In general there is a big focus on how she fears to leave the house at night, because of how dark it is, as if street lights didn't exist either. There are certainly problems that people with a hearing impairment face, but this selection of issues feels extremely shallow.

I feel like it's never fully about a hearing impairment and how it affects people, as it constantly finds way to make it a non issue between the main characters, but when the story needs it to be relevant, they just come up with a weird problem. When I've read the premise of it being a romance involving a deaf girl, I was hoping they would go the extra mile, because fully deaf/mute characters, especially leads, are honestly some of the most difficult characters to write and make compelling. In a manga, that's a much more visual of a format than a light novel, I hoped for more visual storytelling to overcome that hurdle, but alas, they just find a way to make her not-so-deaf. It's not like I want to diminish the existence of such people, but I just wish the manga would commit to that fully, to give a more unique experience.

On the other hand, it also wants to be a story about invisible disabilities and how people make assumptions about a person. It also strikes me as an odd choice to choose something that's very prominent and noticeable to be the stand-in for the invisible disability. Again, it's not that I'm against this point, but I just wish the manga would commit more to it, with something that's a even less visible, but affects someone just as greatly, like autism for example. I dunno if Im projecting a bit too much of what I personally would've wanted, but I just felt like they never fully committed with the premise of the story.

There's also this underlining theme of abuse, and how others see Kanon as lesser and only aim to be perceived better by helping the disabled girl, making themselves this martyr worthy of praise. It is a very interesting subject to tackle, but I feel like ultimately it feels a bit undermined by the fact that the story would flip between her being perfectly capable and not wanting to be treated specially and needing to be babysat by Saki (like the bus display thing or being unable to see cars at night) whenever the story calls for it. In the end it kinda just serves to paint Saki as this angel to Kanon with no ulterior motive, which kinda is exactly what the manga wants to oppose. Often the story would have her have those "Im sorry for existing, it's so insensitive of me" moments with her and I'm not sure what they are supposed to mean, as they never seem to make a point of them especially not about "not wanting to get special treatment". There seems to be this weird double standard for her, and the characters even acknowledge it by saying stuff like "Its not so bad to be babied" or "I don't mind when she does it". It makes me see the main subject matter as even more contrived.

There's also this little part where there's one bully who also loses hearing in her right ear. Again, such a weird choice. I get the whole karma implication, but on the other hand it does feel straight out of a Dhar Mann "Mean girl bullies classmate for being deaf. Instantly regrets it" video. Rather than "Be a decent person, because there are different people and basic human decency is cool" its more so of a "You never know if it might happen to you!". It kinda rubbed me the wrong way, even if it was earnest. Oh yeah, and there was also this scene where they run a Maid Cafe for a school festival and Kanon has to ask a client to show her what she wants to order on the menu. Despite looking directly at the client and her saying that she wants two coffees and two biscuits. It normally wouldn't be jarring and would be a totally normal thing for such a story, if her main skill wasn't that she can flawlessly read lips of everybody and she was looking directly at the client. That chapter in general seemed to forget they gave her this ability just so they could give Kanon feelings of inferiority for one chapter. Rather than make an actual point about disabilities, it often feels like the manga treats it entirely as a gimmick that can be switched on and off depending on what the story needs in the current chapter.

But as a romance story, it's fairly standard. The leads are not overly interesting and it progresses surprisingly quickly. That being said, it's one of these yuri where "we don't openly talk about our feelings and its all implied we're just special to each other but never explicitly romantically", which Im honestly just tired of. It's your standard share of "awkward girls being awkward" that's meant to be endearing, but if you've seen enough of it, you just become desensitized to it.

I really tried to enjoy this manga, because of how many good things Ive heard about it, but I simply couldn't find much to enjoy other than the artwork. Truly a shame, because the premise seemed so fascinating!

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