6.10.18 I'm just doing some manga reviews instead of studying for my finals tomorrow ahahahaha rip. I read this whole manga while waiting for my friend to finish her chem lab final because I still feel kinda sad eating alone. It's kind of annoying how humans are such pack animals.
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If you're in it for the art style, this probably won't be your cup of tea. It's an extremely simplistic style and one where the most important takeaway would be the message rather than the visuals. It conveys a pretty powerful message through a 13 chapter manga with a unique premise. There's this university girl and she's grown up her whole life believing in the Nostradamus prophesy that the world will end in 1999. And so the story takes place 10 days before the world will supposedly end when her nondescript next-door neighbor asks her to be his girlfriend. At first she doesn't see him as anything more than just another novel experience to have had before the world ends. That's how she's lived her entire life. She doesn't really care about money or her future or anyone else's feelings. And so being in this relationship where you have to be considerate of another person's feelings is an awakening experience for her. It's a experience that she never had to go through before, she never had to consider how anyone else thought about her or what other people might be feeling. It was interesting seeing her tussle with her inability to communicate exactly what she was feeling. She definitely had trouble communicating her feelings as we can see from her panic attacks over dying so young and her fear of it and how she just kept all of those secret demons to herself. However, thankfully the world didn't end. She was able to experience a life without the weight of inexplicable death in the summer of 1999 and now she could just live her life the way she wants to. It really was a very simplistic manga with really only one arc, but it definitely gets you to appreciate the lives that we lead and to be grateful for them.
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