Bambino!
4/5: Cooking manga tends to be basic and banal, featuring characters who never face hurdles. Shogo here faces all kinds of troubles but he continues and continues. It is realistic and inspirational.
Aruku Hito
3/5: Nothing much happens. It should be calm, but something has to happen as a touchstone for something to actually feel calm.
Arigatou
7/10, but will round up: There were absurd parts, and character development was not the strong part. However, the manga did what it was supposed to do - it made me uncomfortable. The story is a tragedy, but it does what it should do, and ultimately ends not in an unrealistic, overly wholesome way, but there is closure.
Kokou No Hito
4/5: Very good, especially because I am not normally fond of sports manga. Psychological, thrilling, and intense. I binged the chapters!
My Solo Exchange Diary
5/5: It's not as much about lesbian identity as it is about mental illness, but it still has the holy touch of Nagata Kabi, the reality of everything around her. But it's not cynical reality, it's real optimism.
Yunagi No Machi Sakura No Kuni