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かけおちガール [Kakeochi Girl] #1
かけおちガール 1
大学院生の牧村ももには、忘れられない人がいる。女子校時代に付き合っていた不思議な魅力を持った女の子・みどりちゃん。内緒の手紙に同じ色のマニキュア…ずっと続くものだと思っていた関係は、高校卒業の日のみどりちゃんの「どっちが先に彼氏できるか勝負しよっ！」という発言で簡単に終わってしまった。終わった恋に囚われる牧村だが、ある日、職場で偶然みどりちゃんに再会して…！？
129 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 13, 2020
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May 31, 2022
Review for the whole series. Jesus, what a gut punch. A heartfelt look at comphet, how it affects our dreams and how we see ourselves, the damage it does to self-esteem and self-expression; domestic violence; misogyny, through a male antagonist whose behaviour we're given an explanation for without excusing it; and finding happiness while going against the grain of what's "normal."
The art is absolutely to die for, with plenty of visual symbolism that, while unsubtle, is fitting and serves to underscore the emotional state of the characters.
God, and it's so good! I was rooting for these girls! When her mom offered to make tea.... I cried. The official English translation isn't out yet but I'm gonna preorder a copy and make every lesbian and bi woman I know read it.
The art is absolutely to die for, with plenty of visual symbolism that, while unsubtle, is fitting and serves to underscore the emotional state of the characters.
God, and it's so good! I was rooting for these girls! When her mom offered to make tea.... I cried. The official English translation isn't out yet but I'm gonna preorder a copy and make every lesbian and bi woman I know read it.
March 11, 2021
✨🌟 Rating for the whole series: 9.25 out of 10 stars 🌟✨
Review for the whole series:
Kakeochi, Girl is a story about a woman who met ex-girlfriend from school days and found out she was pregnant and unhappy. The two tried to go with the norm and bury their feelings but sooner or later it will catch up to them.
It sounds cliche but I think the story feels really relatable and realistic. It's painful to read because things like what written in this manga still oftenly happens in real life, gay people break up and settle with someone they don't love just for going along with the society. The characters are nuanced too and the ending was nicely written. Overall the series is very beautiful and highly recommended to read.
Keywords: manga, romance, shoujo ai (wlw), angst (?)
Content warning: nudity, implicit sex scenes, cheating trope, abuse, forced hetero relationship
Review for the whole series:
Kakeochi, Girl is a story about a woman who met ex-girlfriend from school days and found out she was pregnant and unhappy. The two tried to go with the norm and bury their feelings but sooner or later it will catch up to them.
It sounds cliche but I think the story feels really relatable and realistic. It's painful to read because things like what written in this manga still oftenly happens in real life, gay people break up and settle with someone they don't love just for going along with the society. The characters are nuanced too and the ending was nicely written. Overall the series is very beautiful and highly recommended to read.
Keywords: manga, romance, shoujo ai (wlw), angst (?)
Content warning: nudity, implicit sex scenes, cheating trope, abuse, forced hetero relationship
March 31, 2022
i can already tell that i am going to cry later :(
i like the how they shows each of their struggles,
the comphet pains me to see but it's such an important part of their story!
i am feeling similar vibes to our dreams at dusk.
i like the how they shows each of their struggles,
the comphet pains me to see but it's such an important part of their story!
i am feeling similar vibes to our dreams at dusk.
January 14, 2026
Cw for domestic abuse
Gee can't imagine what it must be like to rediscover someone from your past who's in a relationship with someone you can tell is abusive but you aren't sure how you can help them or even if they really aren't happy and you're just projecting because you want them to be with you instead, what's that like?
Gee can't imagine what it must be like to rediscover someone from your past who's in a relationship with someone you can tell is abusive but you aren't sure how you can help them or even if they really aren't happy and you're just projecting because you want them to be with you instead, what's that like?
November 30, 2021
made me feel so twisted inside until it all came apart in a good way??? teared up
January 17, 2025
Review for the whole series:
All in all this story is about the struggles of being queer in a heteronormative world and the messy nature of figuring it all out. There's some deeply flawed characters and I appreciated that - it's not easy dealing with internalized homophobia and leaving an abusive partner, let alone standing up for yourself as a woman who everyone sees as dumb and easy.
Maki doesn't have it easy either, she'd do anything to get her high-school sweetheart back and is willing to put up with a lot of shit in exchange for brief moments of happiness. Her being a doormat and going along with the cheating despite knowing Midori has a fiance to go home to is tough. She's being used, but I think the series does a good job at exploring the difficulties from both of their perspectives.
The fiance is a massive misogynist, we briefly get to see the world from his perspective and learn why he is the way he is without excusing any of his actions. He gets Midori pregnant against her will and she struggles a lot with the complicated feelings that come with her body changing and the uncertainty of the future. But what she fears most is being alone and plays dumb to avoid causing any friction.
(Also mentioning this here in case someone needs the warning: Abortion was at no point mentioned or considered, she does end up having that baby and shares custody with the father, though the details of their arrangement isn't specified)
The art style is a big highlight for me, I haven't seen a manga quite like this before and if I had to describe it I'd choose the words elegant and feminine.
cw: abusive relationship (physical and emotional), sexual content (not super explicit), nudity, cheating, homophobia, misogyny, forced pregnancy
All in all this story is about the struggles of being queer in a heteronormative world and the messy nature of figuring it all out. There's some deeply flawed characters and I appreciated that - it's not easy dealing with internalized homophobia and leaving an abusive partner, let alone standing up for yourself as a woman who everyone sees as dumb and easy.
Maki doesn't have it easy either, she'd do anything to get her high-school sweetheart back and is willing to put up with a lot of shit in exchange for brief moments of happiness. Her being a doormat and going along with the cheating despite knowing Midori has a fiance to go home to is tough. She's being used, but I think the series does a good job at exploring the difficulties from both of their perspectives.
The fiance is a massive misogynist, we briefly get to see the world from his perspective and learn why he is the way he is without excusing any of his actions. He gets Midori pregnant against her will and she struggles a lot with the complicated feelings that come with her body changing and the uncertainty of the future. But what she fears most is being alone and plays dumb to avoid causing any friction.
(Also mentioning this here in case someone needs the warning: Abortion was at no point mentioned or considered, she does end up having that baby and shares custody with the father, though the details of their arrangement isn't specified)
The art style is a big highlight for me, I haven't seen a manga quite like this before and if I had to describe it I'd choose the words elegant and feminine.
cw: abusive relationship (physical and emotional), sexual content (not super explicit), nudity, cheating, homophobia, misogyny, forced pregnancy
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 1, 2025
At first I wasn't sure if we were being baited since it felt like Maki was Midori's doormat, but i'm glad to see this develop as a very complex & intensely emotional series.
Especially with the ending in showing us Kon's perspective to having 2 moms & how mixed her emotions were with not fitting in with society's norm vs accepting her parents hardships/past.
Overall: This was genuinely a good rollercoaster of a read, but i see how this is definitely not for everyone - especially those who aren't open minded about some realistic comphet topics.
Especially with the ending in showing us Kon's perspective to having 2 moms & how mixed her emotions were with not fitting in with society's norm vs accepting her parents hardships/past.
Overall: This was genuinely a good rollercoaster of a read, but i see how this is definitely not for everyone - especially those who aren't open minded about some realistic comphet topics.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 31, 2025
girl maki deserves the world 😭😭
i feel sorry for midori but she’s kinda pissing me off.. i get that it’s not easy to escape a situation like hers but still 😩
i feel sorry for midori but she’s kinda pissing me off.. i get that it’s not easy to escape a situation like hers but still 😩
May 29, 2023
Everyone’s awful in this, they’re all toxic. The artworks nice though.
Tazune is a good example of a ‘nice guy’ who’s really a creep. Refusing a condom when the partners hadn’t talked about it, his insults putting her down, were all signs of abuse leading up to domestic violence. He just hates women.
There’s so much toxicity in this, Doumuoyo confessed to an engaged man in front of his fiancée in their home. That’s a huge slap in the face, the disrespect to her boss was insane. Then she has the nerve to give her number to the him!?!?!! She’s openly planning to get her fiancée to cheat. Then he praises the other woman and compares her to his fiancée right in front of her!! This a good example of so many toxic relationships, like hey kids look out for these red flags! Doumouyo is just so ridiculously disrespectful to her boss. Midori’s fiancée was texting another woman when he’s suppose to be comforting her.
Midori is just awful, she’s cheating on her fiancée. She’s in a toxic relationship and should just break up with him, not string him along and cheat on him. MC isn’t much better, she’s the affair partner. Midori is cruel, she knows MC still likes her but she takes her wedding dress shopping. She just used MC as a standin for her fiancée.
Midori just wants someone else to take care of her before she breaks up with him. She doesn’t treat her cheating with MC seriously because she doesn’t view women’s love as serious. Midori’s view on what makes someone an adult is twisted, she thinks you can only be an adult if you have children and have a heterosexual marriage. Midori herself is also toxic, she keeps leading MC on and then breaking up. MC having regular contact with a high schooler is just weird, there’s plenty of online spaces for lesbians to meet and chat.
MC needs to go no contact with Midori, get some therapy to get over a ten year old break up, and get on some dating apps. This manga does a disservice to the lgbt community. It paints lesbians and bisexuals as cheaters and creeps.
Tazune is a good example of a ‘nice guy’ who’s really a creep. Refusing a condom when the partners hadn’t talked about it, his insults putting her down, were all signs of abuse leading up to domestic violence. He just hates women.
There’s so much toxicity in this, Doumuoyo confessed to an engaged man in front of his fiancée in their home. That’s a huge slap in the face, the disrespect to her boss was insane. Then she has the nerve to give her number to the him!?!?!! She’s openly planning to get her fiancée to cheat. Then he praises the other woman and compares her to his fiancée right in front of her!! This a good example of so many toxic relationships, like hey kids look out for these red flags! Doumouyo is just so ridiculously disrespectful to her boss. Midori’s fiancée was texting another woman when he’s suppose to be comforting her.
Midori is just awful, she’s cheating on her fiancée. She’s in a toxic relationship and should just break up with him, not string him along and cheat on him. MC isn’t much better, she’s the affair partner. Midori is cruel, she knows MC still likes her but she takes her wedding dress shopping. She just used MC as a standin for her fiancée.
Midori just wants someone else to take care of her before she breaks up with him. She doesn’t treat her cheating with MC seriously because she doesn’t view women’s love as serious. Midori’s view on what makes someone an adult is twisted, she thinks you can only be an adult if you have children and have a heterosexual marriage. Midori herself is also toxic, she keeps leading MC on and then breaking up. MC having regular contact with a high schooler is just weird, there’s plenty of online spaces for lesbians to meet and chat.
MC needs to go no contact with Midori, get some therapy to get over a ten year old break up, and get on some dating apps. This manga does a disservice to the lgbt community. It paints lesbians and bisexuals as cheaters and creeps.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 23, 2022
The base idea is interesting - high school lesbian sweethearts reconnect years later, when one of them is about to be married off to some guy - but the way the manga is written lacks real direction and the characters don’t feel real. Which is a shame, because the story tries it’s best to introduce multiple POV and backstories explaining why each character is the way it is but ultimately it doesn’t really do anything with that material. The conventions and scenes flow randomly and don’t have any weight to it.
They also tend to be really weird sometimes, and very unrealistic. I mean, if a coworker calls you, confessing that they are crushing on your fiance, the one that you live with - and then ask if they can come over, you wouldn’t really tell them, sure come over to chat with him! You’d especially not let yourself to be degraded to a third wheel while your coworker and your fiance exchange numbers.
And despite the backstories, the story doesn’t let you really get to know the characters so they become one note, and I just don’t feel like I care about any of them. Midori is incredibly selfish, Momo is a doormat, and the fiance is a misogynist. Now these wouldn’t be bad things, flawed characters can be really interesting, but 7 chapters in, we didn’t learn anything else about them.
I have no reason to root for either ships, if anything, Midori might need to sit down and deal with her codependent tendencies. It doesn’t help that the story jumps around a lot, with a lot of plotholes. We know that Midori decided to change her life after graduating high school but it doesn’t seem like she actually did anything with her life other than finding a job and settling for the first guy that was interested.
They also tend to be really weird sometimes, and very unrealistic. I mean, if a coworker calls you, confessing that they are crushing on your fiance, the one that you live with - and then ask if they can come over, you wouldn’t really tell them, sure come over to chat with him! You’d especially not let yourself to be degraded to a third wheel while your coworker and your fiance exchange numbers.
And despite the backstories, the story doesn’t let you really get to know the characters so they become one note, and I just don’t feel like I care about any of them. Midori is incredibly selfish, Momo is a doormat, and the fiance is a misogynist. Now these wouldn’t be bad things, flawed characters can be really interesting, but 7 chapters in, we didn’t learn anything else about them.
I have no reason to root for either ships, if anything, Midori might need to sit down and deal with her codependent tendencies. It doesn’t help that the story jumps around a lot, with a lot of plotholes. We know that Midori decided to change her life after graduating high school but it doesn’t seem like she actually did anything with her life other than finding a job and settling for the first guy that was interested.
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February 10, 2023
4.5 rounded up.
look, i'm easy, give me queer women and it's almost always gonna be 5 stars. with kakeochi girl, the feels and central themes hit you right away. and that last panel is a gut punch of beautiful art and agony because you just KNOW things are gonna get worse before they get better. the art is extraordinarily amazing at getting you to blush and wanna cry--like feelings made into drawings, y'know?
kakeochi girl is a story about sapphic love, girlhood, comphet, motherhood, learning how to be alone, and desiring relationships. despite the characters being mostly lesbians, there is a subtle hint of biromantism that i wish had been touched on since there is something to said about being a woman loving woman who has one-off feelings for a man that seem at odds with her love for women. it's hard for me to say if i believe midori was in love with you know who, but i do believed she loved him (once). and of course, there is the exploration of motherhood and non-nuclear families, which is never really resolved as it never can really be in real life either. i just, UGHHHHHH, i both love and hate it because it's a nightmare experience for me, but like, i get it: i get why midori acts the way she does. she's a deeply flawed woman trying her best to surround herself with love after believing she needed to be like everyone else to be loved ;-;
lastly, the author has GOT to be a wlw because ain't no way a straight woman was able to pry so deeply into the queer psyche and the fear of being a gay woman in (japanese) society. plus, she draws women's bodies' so plush and beautifully.
look, i'm easy, give me queer women and it's almost always gonna be 5 stars. with kakeochi girl, the feels and central themes hit you right away. and that last panel is a gut punch of beautiful art and agony because you just KNOW things are gonna get worse before they get better. the art is extraordinarily amazing at getting you to blush and wanna cry--like feelings made into drawings, y'know?
kakeochi girl is a story about sapphic love, girlhood, comphet, motherhood, learning how to be alone, and desiring relationships. despite the characters being mostly lesbians, there is a subtle hint of biromantism that i wish had been touched on since there is something to said about being a woman loving woman who has one-off feelings for a man that seem at odds with her love for women. it's hard for me to say if i believe midori was in love with you know who, but i do believed she loved him (once). and of course, there is the exploration of motherhood and non-nuclear families, which is never really resolved as it never can really be in real life either. i just, UGHHHHHH, i both love and hate it because it's a nightmare experience for me, but like, i get it: i get why midori acts the way she does. she's a deeply flawed woman trying her best to surround herself with love after believing she needed to be like everyone else to be loved ;-;
lastly, the author has GOT to be a wlw because ain't no way a straight woman was able to pry so deeply into the queer psyche and the fear of being a gay woman in (japanese) society. plus, she draws women's bodies' so plush and beautifully.
April 29, 2021
A cute but also at times sad manga about two girls who meet up again 10 years after they last saw each other. One is still fully in love, the other seems to be in love, but is also getting married and pregnant. I am not too sure how I felt about Midori, on the one hand I felt sad for her that she was just going to let that dick fiancé say all that about her and be rude (I mean she got pregnant because she didn't want to piss him off when he said no condoms and he keeps making remarks about her only finishing high school), but on the other hand I was pissed that she was stringing along someone she knows loves her (aka our MC). I mean our MC is trying so hard to get Midori to see that her fiancé is not good, their relationship not healthy. I just wish she would listen.
I just hope that in the next one Midori takes a healthy step, one not just for herself but also for her unborn child. I hope that Midori and our MC get to have a lovely relationship.
And I definitely wouldn't mind more past parts in which our duo has such a cute relationship.
Great art, so pretty!
I just hope that in the next one Midori takes a healthy step, one not just for herself but also for her unborn child. I hope that Midori and our MC get to have a lovely relationship.
And I definitely wouldn't mind more past parts in which our duo has such a cute relationship.
Great art, so pretty!
January 10, 2021
Everything from the type of story, art style, panel layout and bubble placement, is exactly like Shimura Takako, so if you like Shimura Takako, you will like this.
Midori and Momo dated at their all-girls high school and are now reunited ten years later. Momo still considers herself a lesbian, but Midori left same-sex relationships behind at graduation and is now pregnant and unhappily engaged to a man who treats her like shit. Although Momo still resents Midori for dumping her the way she did, she can't help but feel drawn to her...
Midori and Momo dated at their all-girls high school and are now reunited ten years later. Momo still considers herself a lesbian, but Midori left same-sex relationships behind at graduation and is now pregnant and unhappily engaged to a man who treats her like shit. Although Momo still resents Midori for dumping her the way she did, she can't help but feel drawn to her...
August 11, 2021
I'm intrigued. Not a huge fan of the art style but the story is so captivating.
This feels like a rather realistic portrayal, so I'm curious to how Maki and Midori's relationship will evolve. I gotta say I'm more curious about Midori than about Maki, she's in quite the situation and I'm curious as to what happened to her after the finished high school what was in her mind when she just left Maki. Is there a backstory for that? I hope so!
This feels like a rather realistic portrayal, so I'm curious to how Maki and Midori's relationship will evolve. I gotta say I'm more curious about Midori than about Maki, she's in quite the situation and I'm curious as to what happened to her after the finished high school what was in her mind when she just left Maki. Is there a backstory for that? I hope so!
October 30, 2022
I don't like stories about cheating but the art is gorgeous and the characters are compelling.
May 26, 2021
OK! by far im not having it.
June 18, 2022
one of the best mangas i've read in a while
August 9, 2022
cute but triggering as hell
January 17, 2023
deus que me perdoe mas a maki é uma otária né 😭
brincadeiras a parte, bem complexos os personagens aqui, principalmente a midori(não justifica ela tratar a maki que nem lixo porém)
brincadeiras a parte, bem complexos os personagens aqui, principalmente a midori(não justifica ela tratar a maki que nem lixo porém)
September 21, 2023
Big gay
December 18, 2023
love love love
January 27, 2026
Ch1-16 [complete]
they’re toxic af but i still resonated with this 10x more than any heterosexual shoujo romance
they’re toxic af but i still resonated with this 10x more than any heterosexual shoujo romance
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