Manga Match 95 Happy Cafe

Truly I've been reading this manga that was completed already over a decade ago for a while now. I think I had started it when I was in a place where I just wanted to read something fluffy and completed to distract me from the stressors of daily life I'd been facing during the quarter what with moving in, settling down, learning how to live by myself, how to properly budget but also treat myself well, and how to deal with the massive workload I gave myself. I'm pleased to say that I was able to accomplish all of that with average success, but this was at the expense of my anime/manga time. So, only just now, have I finished this long manga. 

If you're looking for something that's pretty wholesome and is able to distract you momentarily from the stress of living in this world, this is the manga for you. It follows this girl named Uru who's in high school and works part time at a cafe run by two ikemen Shindo and Ichiro. Uru has recently moved out of her mom's house and knows straight away that she wants to work at this cafe because the cakes made by Shindo always fill her with a sense of happiness she wants to give to the world as well. She's the human embodiment of "happy-go-lucky" and nothing much changes throughout the series, except for maybe the arc where the true cause of her father's death comes to light. Other than that, her happy-go-lucky attitude is her driving force throughout the series to act as the glue for all of the cafe customers. In fact, if she wasn't exactly the way she is, I think it'd be hard for so many of the problems the customers came in with to be resolved. Basically, this manga just follows their daily lives in the cafe, as neighbors, and as normal people puzzling out their place in the world. 

And since it's shoujo it always flirts around with this idea of romance among the cafe workers, but we can kind of set that aside, since Shindo is practically handed the title of "main love interest" from the get-go. 

Overall, it's a wholesome manga that adds that little bit of brightness to an otherwise harsh day. I think we could all benefit from internalizing a little bit of Uru's cheer.