"It's true that the world in which you grew up was not kind.but it was not your enemy. 9 does go on one scene farther, which starts a new arc. 9, and found that the anime tracks the manga very well throughout, even, mostly, the ending at episode 24 which I had incorrectly suspected to be an anime add-on. Much later: have just read this through to the end of Vol. I liked it enough to consider buying Vol. Shall not attempt to describe the plot so far, but the mode is on the whole gentle, with dark edges. (I've actually read Genji, ages ago in translation.) Some other reviewers who are having very 21st-Century freakouts over the age and (so far) power differentials of the two protagonists may be unaware of the latter thousand-year-old Heian classic novel, dunno. It is also, I suspect, informed by the The Tale of Genji romance model, less known in the West. Someone once said the two ur-models for romance are Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast and this tale falls squarely into the second camp. I was looking for a counter to the latest very shonen thing I'd read, and this was. is what I get for browsing Amazon after midnight when the gremlins are abroad, but anyway, this one is intriguing.
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