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Feb 22, 2025
I can assure you, you'll never read a romance as great as Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet. I started reading this manga not betting a penny on it. I would start reading, then drop, then pick it up again from the beginning. The pacing is painfully slow at the beginning, and the story can seem tedious and cliché at first look; but i can say with total certainty: This is one of the best mangas I've ever laid hands on.
I confess I was skeptical of the whole age-gap thing, I suspect it would go like that one shoujo manga about the girl and her mafia guard dog.
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But, Tsubaki-chou is not creepy at all. Our male lead is actually someone very moral guided. He refuses to be touchy with our main character. He's someone really respectful of her age and I find his shut-off nature to be quite sweet.
Tipically, I don't like stories in which our main characters are total opposites, I like them to have at least something in common.
Our main leads don't have anything in common, but yet, their dynamic just works.
It's rather sweet how we, as the reader, learn to understand our male lead as we progress on the story by our protagonst's side.
Even If they have such different personalities, their personalities complement each other. He brings rationality to her, she brings him patience and admiration for the small things in life.
While I was reading, I found myself appreciating the slow pacing of the story. It just feels like we're really into our heroine's perspective, you know? She's the type of person who enjoys a quiet life and wants to pay attention to the little details. The manga pacing puts us in her place.
I am really satisfied at how the autor toke their time to make side stories for each one of our side characters. I am really glad that each of them had their screen time to shine and conclude their stories, not leaving anything open for interpretation. That's something I like very much.
The author dealt with the age-gap in a very respectful and realistic way. Their writting was really sensible and careful. We could see clear differences in maturity in our protagonists attitudes and our male counterpart would mention it, as well.
We were able to see them grow as people together. Even while being an adult, he still had things to learn about the positive and simple side of life.
The teachings of the manga about patience, respect and understanding makes it very great for younger audiences, too. I say for sure that this is a story I would give to my pre-adolescent daughter to read (If I had one, of course.)
My only regret about the story is that I didn't read it sooner. I really could've used the teachings it brings during my adolescence, haha.
If you enjoy learning about human relationship, this is a very good read. I cried at the end from pure emotion. I laughed so hard at many other moments. I felt an warm feeling everytime I would see them being so genuine in their love. I'm quite embarassed to admit I feel kinda light-headed and empty after the ending. I wish I could savour this story all over again. Really wish it, someday, receives an anime adaptation.
Thank you, everyone that worked hard in this story, thanks to the author as well. And, thank you to the scan people who translated it so I could read it (Since it didn't came to my country, although I do plan to buy physical copies of it.)
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 28, 2024
The story is overall great, it's honestly really fun to watch, specially because our main characters are not only cute but also realistic 12 years old children and interesting. The world-building is amazing. I like the way the story shows us that even children in this world don't have it easy.
The story doesn't feel dragged or slow, the pacing feels really comfortable to watch.
The autor, although, does have some weird fetishes and you can see that as clear as the sunlight...
You'll probably get uncomfortable with an relevant frequency while watching this. Be mindful of that.
The relationship between our protagonist duo is super cute and they
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have a fun dynamic.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 14, 2024
Light-hearted love story at the beginning, but gets deeper later, working on characters problems, fears.
I found it very enjoyable, our protagonist is sweet but also headstrong sometimes, but she's really focused in improving.
Our male lead is the serious-sweet kind of guy, he won't express everything with words all the time, but he'll show it throught his choices and actions.
Supporting cast is really fun and have their own stories going on. Their situations felt really real and even the characters themselves feel really realistic. Our protagonist overthinks a lot, but ends up noticing she's getting ahead of herself afterwards.
Their relationship is pretty healthy
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although the male lead surpresses his real feelings from time to time about things. There's quite some character development for our protagonst. Other characters receive it as well, but most of it was off-screen, which is something that bothers me a lot.
The story is all together enjoyable if you can handle a little bit of anxiety; It's a story that really passes this "mature" feeling, specially with how realistic everything is. I hope to see our heroine overcoming her insecurities in a close future!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 13, 2024
Put it in "mixed feelings" because I feel like most readers won't like it, especially If you're not an male yandere enjoyer.
It's good lighthearted and calm slice of life story for those and only THOSE who enjoy male yandere content. A good break from all the psychological horror stuff that envolves male yandere mangas and complex stories.
I'ts a fun short reading, don't expect anything amazing out of it like Secret Alliance or Kedamono-tachi no Jikan, It doesn't focus on the psycological aspect of yanderes at all.
The male lead is cute and handsome, the protagonist is dumb and cute. They make a lovely couple
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because of how caring and emotionally aware she is, and how socially smart he is. The two of them care a lot about each other and there's no room for tsunderism or hesitation.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 23, 2024
Amazing writting, complex multi faceted characters, lovely protagonist, sensible and moral navigation through hard topics, an overall 10/10 psychological horror drama. I don't recommend it unless you really got the guts to witness a countless number of explicit abuses going on your screen.
Don't get me wrong, this is NOT a fetish story or something like that, that's some real to the core psychological horror drama. You'll cry, you'll get angry, you'll get anxious for the characters. The amount of explicit depiction of abuse is absolutely necessary to truly get the whole picture of how grotesque the situation our main characters are facing really is,
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you NEED to be uncomfortable, that's what art is all about.
The author uses a lot of grey morality in the main characters, which makes it all even more realistic, you cannot comprehend the story fully if you don't accept the grey morality. This manga is an brilliant journey of a girl trying to face the horrors that life put her throught, don't read it if you can't handle to witness this kind of reality which abuse survivors live throught.
PS: If you're here for a male yandere manga, quit it. This is not about it, trust me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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