Welcome to Litsy!

For the first volume, it's a good start.

Rinko is a 30something year old single career woman who has realized, along with her two single besties, that she might not be living up to her potential and is in want of getting married before the Tokyo Olympics (2020) rolled around but she's too busy with work, her own fantasies, and drinking with her girls to actually go out and date but there's this one guy that she keeps bumping into so maybe?

Manga + Mini Wheats for breakfast.

I‘m not sure how I feel about this opening volume. It wasn‘t BAD, but it also relies on a lot of age-related marriage stuff that I feel we should‘ve moved past by now. Maybe it‘s another of those Japanese vs Canadian mores things.

Also, I‘m perplexed by Higashimura‘s insistence, here and in PRINCESS JELLYFISH, that 30 is middle aged. Is this also a Japanese thing? To me, 45-50 is middle aged.

I didn't love it, but it was a good start to a series. Unfortunately for me, it was not a $100 start to a series, which is how much the rest of the volunteers would cost me... So I likely will not find out how it ends and whether Rinko figures her stuff out.

#ReadHarder #ReadHarder2019 -A Book of Manga

Reading manga for #ReadHarder challenge.

Arguably this should never not be true, but it can be shocking when all of a sudden you look around and there's no one to help you up.

#ReadHarder2019

Tokyo Tarareba Girls volumes 1-3

Entertaining story of three friends in their 30s looking for love. I enjoyed the first two volumes, but got slightly annoyed with the main character in the third volume. Overall, I still like the series - good josei 😉 Oh, and did I mention that it‘s by the same mangaka from Princess Jellyfish (which, I still need to finish reading too!).

#tokyotararebagirls #manga #josei