A review by toritoot
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 1 by Akiko Higashimura
5.0
I've made it a general rule for myself not to review individual volumes of manga/manwha series, because I just don't have the time or emotional strength for that, but I felt like I had something worthwhile to say about this book, so I'm writing a review for it.
I watched the Jdrama remake of this story sometime last year (before ever reading this book) and found it both enjoyable and frustrating. The leads made many poor decisions in respect to their love lives, and it got quite repetitive at one point. But despite finding myself wanting to bang my head against a wall a few times, I did still oddly enjoy getting a peak into these three women's friendship and love lives. I liked them in spite of themselves.
This book ended up being so much more of an enjoyable read than I expected after having watched the drama. I don't know if it's due to the difference between the written word and the television screen, but the story felt so much more Real and the characters were so much less annoying and frustrating. I sympathized them in the drama series, but I think I actually Connected with them in this book. Obviously, this is just volume 1, so there's plenty of time for the story and characters to devolve into something more akin to what the drama was for me. And if that happens, I won't be too disappointed, because I did enjoy the drama, after all. But if this volume is any indication of what the rest of the series is going to be like, then I'm really excited to read it.
I watched the Jdrama remake of this story sometime last year (before ever reading this book) and found it both enjoyable and frustrating. The leads made many poor decisions in respect to their love lives, and it got quite repetitive at one point. But despite finding myself wanting to bang my head against a wall a few times, I did still oddly enjoy getting a peak into these three women's friendship and love lives. I liked them in spite of themselves.
This book ended up being so much more of an enjoyable read than I expected after having watched the drama. I don't know if it's due to the difference between the written word and the television screen, but the story felt so much more Real and the characters were so much less annoying and frustrating. I sympathized them in the drama series, but I think I actually Connected with them in this book. Obviously, this is just volume 1, so there's plenty of time for the story and characters to devolve into something more akin to what the drama was for me. And if that happens, I won't be too disappointed, because I did enjoy the drama, after all. But if this volume is any indication of what the rest of the series is going to be like, then I'm really excited to read it.