潔く柔く 1

Puzzle #1

by Ryō Ikuemi, いくえみ綾

由麻は通学電車で痴漢に悩まされている。同級生のスワは由麻を守るため一緒に通学し、2人は付き合い始めることに。だが、由麻は毎朝同じ電車に乗る生物教師の梶間が妙に気にかかり…。

Genres: Manga

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 25, 2004

About the author

Associated names:
育江綾
育江绫
이쿠에미 료
Ryou Ikuemi

Name (in native language) : いくえみ綾

Zodiac : Libra

Has four cats: two male ones, Chobi and Kabu and two female ones, Kyu and Cha.

Friends with Aya Nakahara.

Reviews

[Hardian]

I was reading this with the expectation of reading a josei story only to find out that it's actually a shoujo, meaning I might have set too high expectation while reading this (confused).

As a shoujo manga it feels like having a quite mature story, I'm quite convinced that it is a josei until the end of the volume. However, I also felt something's off compared to other Ryo's josei works I've read, it feels like the most ordinary story she has written. Well, at least for this first volume so far.

Anyway, I decided to not rate it yet, since I heard the first volume is only the little piece beginnings of bigger stories (there are two initial stories in this first volume). Or it may be best appreciated as a whole series rather than as separated stories. Some kind of omnibus or may be even hyperlinked stories, with the way the stories are tied or connected or generally presented, seen as an important way in the storytelling interest, or so I heard. The French edition is titled 'Puzzle' anyway like it hints on something.

(Apparently a live action movie adaptation of this manga is coming soon. I found out that this seemed-to-be-stand-alone-volume-stories are actually continued in the next volume after reading the synopsis of the movie.)

[Melainebooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

En voilà une nouvelle série originale. Bon, ce n'est pas non plus novateur mais il y a de l'idée. Chaque chapitre (assez long) est une histoire indépendante de la seconde qui va suivre sauf que parfois des personnages d'histoires précédentes apparaissent. A suivre pour voir si c'est toujours le cas.

[Rosemarie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second story in this volume was heartbreaking.