SORA the RunawaY's manga / #Yuri(154)

It's rare to find a yuri manga that tackles so many subjects in such a short amount of time. Nowadays, it tends to be coming out, coming of age, building a relationship or just showing how their life is and this manga managed to tackle all those subjects and then some. It was surprisingly uplifting, in a way, to see the main character changing so much in such a short amount of time. It takes many women a majority of their twenties to fully mature and know who they are, even with help and she manages to do so before even meeting her twenties. This is a story that leaves out all the cutsie things we have come to know and love from yuri and tackles the real matters at hand. How can I be a better person for myself but also for the person I love most. This shows another side to maturity and it dazzles the reader with all the love, care and life lessons that go into a relationship regardless of if that person is a woman or a man. Excellently crafter work of art. A recommendation I'd make to any yuri fan out there.

Technically, shoujo ai is not a genre affiliated with Yuri. It actually is something completely different and the only actual Yuri genres are "Yuri", " GL" and "lesbian". With that being said, this Yuri is an eloquently told story of coming of age and finding out that love takes many forms. I also love how it does not approach the subject of a lesbian relationship as taboo or off putting. Rather, Yamada is more surprised than anything else at this new feeling she has and even more surprised when it is given back to her. Beautiful storytelling at its best.

While when I first started reading this I thought it was going to be just another ecchi manga, it changed my mind. Yes, of course it has its ecchi moments but it really speaks to the reader and envelops them into the story in whole. I particularly love Ai and Chie's relationship. It's cute but also very realistic of high school girlfriends and really tugs at my heart strings! There are also others who have quite the interesting stories but I'm not gonna lie and say I haven't been reading this wanting to see how Ai and Chie will fall even deeper in love. Great!

The art really took away from the overall story. Also, the story could have been told in a much shorter time which tells me that the author was trying to milk it for all it was worth. And it wasn't worth much. This really disappointed me. The two main characters are not only destructive towards each other but they are to themselves and those around themselves. I hated the brother and was surprised a woman like his wife ever married him in the first place. Finding out that a woman has been battered her entire life and saying for her to just deal with it and get over it...not ok. Also, I really didn't even care for the main character. It was like her over abuse was done just to make her seem more pathetic or to make her seem to be someone who needed others empathy. Also even though she said she would take that empathy she always did. This story was not something I will ever read again. Probably the worst yuri, if not one of the worst mangas I have ever read. As a victim of abuse and a lesbian, I find this manga rather appalling.

So friggin adorably perfect. Glad I stuck with it to the end! Gentle, bubbly and just what anyone who loves stories like Asagao to Kase-san or Aoi Hana.

What was the point of this?

Disappointing, as expected.

This author really doesn't impress me.