My second spot for bingo is 恋と呼ぶには青すぎる 1 | L28 series. This was nominated for the Yuri Book club and only received 17% votes in its first round of voting.
Technically it has had better results in subsequent votes, but never really got selected, so I am going with this for a “Low interest nomination”.
It’s always refreshing to read a Yuri romance where the main characters are adults instead of high schoolers (since the latter is a much more common setting), but sadly this manga didn’t feel to me like it hit the correct notes for that setting. Can’t quite blame the author though, since the title does mention that there’s going to be some immaturity involved (the 青すぎる part).
One of the big hurdles for me was the Kansai-ben used by two of the main characters. I have read books in the past with characters that used a lot of Kansai-ben, but this felt on different level to the point it was more like Kansai-ben-slang. For a lot of phrases and expression my Kansai-ben resources failed to help me figure things out. This is one of the reasons why this jumped from L24?? to L28 after I graded it.
There was also the problem that many parts of the story were quite confusing - I wasn’t completely sure if it was just that my Japanese was not good enough, but even other characters seemed to be just as a confused by some ideas the characters bring up seemingly out of the blue. Characters had definitely some quirky ideas on how human relationships work.
I would have preferred if the manga focused more in the Yuri romance instead of exploring these more quirky viewpoints expressed by the characters, but that’s just my personal preference.
Time to figure out what to read next ^.^
