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(*Review only refers to the first 10 chapters and be edited acordingly)
In a hidden tiny village lived some sweet little mushroom fairys.
Singing, dancing, collecting, and eating little nutricious berries.
Living happily in the depths of a dark, mysterious forest.
As you stumble across them, you might feel the chorus.
.
Yet not every mushroom is so friendly; some might be poisonous!
Besides the fireflies, at night, you may see one so luminous.
Living happily in the depths of a dark, mysterious forest.
Do you feel the pain or the feeling of your body being the sorest?
... 🍄~🍄~🍄~🍄

~🍄 Story:
In the deep deep forest a little mushroom fairy, Tamago, lived happily ever after with her family and friends. Until one day the poisonous mushroom, Tsukiyotake, was captured by her folk. In just a blink of an eye, her whole village was wiped out... leaving her alone. Trailing the mass murderer, who did this all, she learns that she might not be the good edible mushroom, she thought she is?

(Small warning on this point, like you can see...this series deals with topics like suicide and genocide, so please take care of yourself and do not read it if you have any problems with these topics)

From the 10 chapters we got by now, the story can easily be divided into "mini" arcs and i would devide them like this (spoiler free):
[ 1/2 - Prologue 𓍊𓋼𓍊 3/4/5 - First village 𓍊𓋼𓍊 6/7 - Small break 𓍊𓋼𓍊 8/9/10 - First encounter/Second Village ]
In this review i will only briefly touch upon the Prologue, since it just covered the ground for the world youre about to explore!

~🍄 Characters:
‧ Tamago:
She is a little optimistic girl, wearing a dress and a big ribbon, she might be a cover girl for a fantasy story! Her red/white scheme isnt seen often in the manga, as it is in black/white. Her naive and friendly nature is, as a child (coded) character, understandable, she is our protagonist and helps us to understand the world, following her journey... Yet you cant forget the grudge she holds against her partner for the genocide of her village...

‧ Tsukiyotake:
He is the first poisinous mushroom we meet in the story, he is an adult (coded) character, he has a more brownish (?) color scheme and he has a drastically different clothing style from our protagonist. Wearing a long coat, under which he hides weaponory, and a hat. In the early chapters, it becomes clear that he has skills in assassination and survival. He has a unique side effect of glowing in the dark, as it is the mushrooms property. He is actively searching for something, before he can rest in peace. Yet he teams up with Tamago due to a certain event...

‧ Fly
An interestingly curious fly, which accompanies Tamago (no dialogue is needed).

‧Dokusasako (Sasako)
#TBA

‧Kaentake
#TBA

*The reason i wrote "coded" is because the difference between the ages of characters isnt very clear, the height is very similar and besides the fact they call them out as such i cant confirm theyre age.

~🍄 Art:
Only one cover was revealed for now and i like it, the contrast between the red tones of the fly agaric, in the centre, and the flat turquoise background, it feels very simple, but it works efficiently to capture the main theme of this manga.
The first thing which i noticed is that the paneling is done in a good way. The story reads really nicely and even in action heavy moments it is easily understandable who is doing what. Some of the panels have a unique border nd i really appreachiate it as it fits in the storybook theme. Noboru Segawa really uses all the space they have, the backgrounds are often used, not only for generic white/textures, but you often spot some trees or other background elements of the forest, It never feels to crowded and always is balanced by some gradience/ outline.

~🍄 My two cents:
Just to start of, yes i love it so far... it might be biased to say it as
a) i love mushrooms as a unique lifeform and
b) good dark fantasy stories

Ive spottet this manga while i was searching for some new reads from this year, sadly no official translation is avaible as of this point in time (only a certain fan-translation is avaible on some parts of the web *caugh*)

~🍄 Should you read?
Short answer... Yes! At least give it a try, as a dark fantasy it does great work setting up a intriguing world, questions for the reader are set up in a suddle way and most of them arent resolved as this manga is still ongoing...

... BUT! you might not enjoy this (or dont want to read it) due to it darker themes and the "mushroom gore" you will see, as some characters are twisted in a physical and psychological way...

🍄 But remember, my taste is mine and yours is yours! With that... Peace out!

Everything is fine...
Just as Hotaru Morino is spending her time on a school trip, with her friends in toe, life seems perfect. 
A blackout... as she comes back to her senses, she realizes that she is in her room. On the windowsill sits a mysterious figure, clothed in a black suit, as he declares: "Hotaru Morino... you are dead" With only 49 days left to save her soul from corrupting into a ghost, she must get over 3 attachements, which hold her in this world.
Everything is NOT fine...
🌸~🌸~🌸~🌸

~🌸 Story:
As you can in the synopsis, it is a rather interesting concept. Some elemets would need futher explaination, ... i will not go into spoiler territory (only the early part of volume 1/Chapters 1&2) but outline the ground of the worldbuilding:
‧ We can devide the world into the "real world" - "ghost world" (the plain our characters are, where normal humans cant see them, as they have no physical body) - "Afterlife"
‧ The soul has 49 days to get rid of the attachements, which prevent them from passing on
→ if they cant do this they turn into a ghost and remain in the "ghost world" where they would slowly turn into phantoms/mosters, which are a threat to the souls ( as they feed on them)

These are the rules layed down to you, the reader, yet many questions remain, but they are resolved with the flow of the story. Who are these "soul-guides" and where do they come from? What is "Kuro's" motivation to keep her alive and steady to the end? Well you gotta read it to find it out.

As this is my first Manga, which was written by Inujun, i am pretty suprised of the writing, since for a more underground Manga it has great story structure. The writing itself was easy to follow and it didnt sidelined many plots, only focusing on Hotaru Morino and some chapters to the soul-guide "Kuro" to tie them up in the middle of the story. On the way we learn the stories of some side characters, which are serving to bring the story futher and build emotional tension.

~🌸 Characters:
‧ Hotaru Morino
She is the Main Character or this Manga and is a second year high school student. She is a more naive friendly girl, which has a good heart. She has a crush on her classmate Ren Otaka and has good ties with her friends and family. As she died she wanderes around and causes some problems, which help the worldbuilding to widen and introduce aspects/rules in a rather organic way. As she travels around with her soul-guide and fullfills his demands .

‧ "Kuro" the soul-guide
This is the "grim reaper" who guides our protagonist through her 49 days, to send her off to the afterlife. He is introduced as a cold and reckless *caugh* young looking man. As a supernatural entity, we do not know not much besides his job. As we go on we learn another sides of his and some information about him.

‧ Ren Otaka
The sport loving, romance interest for our main protagonist Hotaru Morino. He also expresses romatic feelings towards her...

‧ Shiori Yamamoto
She is the 3rd in the friendgroup and she is very close to our main protagonist, she gets some time to shine in volume 2

~🌸 Art:
The artstyle of this series is suprisingly good, Saho Tanamachi encaptures the thematic greatly in the covers ( which we only have 2 of) which just look phenominal, although you can see that the rendering on the 2nd cover was a great improvement over the first one.
The Style in the story is consistant and has clean linework with enough shading in some scenes, but it most of the time the characters are minimaly shadered and falls in line with most manga created in this timeframe. Especially the full page artworks are worth looking at, since they have rather simple shapes and are easy to read. The ratio of static backgrounds and detailed backgrounds is pretty balanced, as most close up shots use no backgrounds (only some texture at most) which helps to read the movement/actions of characters. Coloring work was only done in the beginning of the 1st chapter, which includes the 1 page prolouge and a spread.

~🌸 My two cents:
Ive read this series in the german language, as it was published late 2022/early 2023 from the publishing house "Hayabusa" so it might be that (if there will be) a english translation, it might not be 100% the same, as you could expect with any translation. I personally loved the dynamic between the 2 main characters, as the story progressed theyre chemesty build up more and more (i wont say more as psst! But *mwah* i like it)

~🌸 Should you read?
With a lengh of only 2 volumes, you can binge read it in a couple of hours or even less. Well it is to note that this work is touching upon waters of death and the afterlife, aswell as some elements of grief and love (romantic & platonic). The romance is a big aspect and the Manga will try to rip your heart open and let your emotions run wild. Yes the ending was bitter-sweet and gives a more or less sufficient ending to a story like this... so i come to the verdict...

For a average manga reader this might be skip, yet it would be a refreshing story for any school romance lover. The emotional under you might drop a tear or two from the development between the MC and theyre bonds they build. At least give this manga a try (2-3 chapters and you know if its something for you.

🌸 Have a good day and peace out!