Title: 雨でも晴れでも 1 | L22
Book type: manga
Available formats: physical / ebook / all furigana
Summary - Japanese
雨でも晴れでも、雪の降る日も一ほかの誰よりあなた といたい。
神社の娘で方言がコンプレックスな山田美古都と、
仏頂面で周囲から恐れられる生徒会役員、猫崎蓮。
全寮制の女子校”有頂天高校”で出会った彼女たちは、 毎日のように放課後をふたりで過ごしている。
ふたりの共通点は、ほかに友達がいないこと。
そしてお互いのことだけを、特別な友達だと考えている こと。
「猫崎さんがわたしを見つけてくれた時一ー世界に色が ついたんよ」
「座女装東だって関西弁だって、美古都さんの全部全
部…かわいいって思ってたわ…」
ひとクセもふたクセもある少女たちの青春と心の交歓を 描いた
百合恋愛コメディ 『雨でも晴れでも』第1巻ついにリリー ス!!
Summary - English
Recently having moved away from her rural hometown, Mikoto Yamada struggles to make friends at Uchouten High School. Noticing Mikoto sitting alone, the student council secretary, Ren Nekozaki, decides to utilize her position to create a club specifically to allow the two to spend time together, using a shrine near the school as their club room.
Soon enough, their club space is encroached upon by four strangers: Takuya Kumakura, Yozora Usagida, Airi Shishimaru, and Ritsu Pengin. These girls share the plight of having interests that are too niche to justify the creation of a club. As Uchouten requires all its students to participate in club activities, the four form their own club to let each member do whatever they want. This leaves but one remaining issue-a club room is required for a club to be official. As a result, the four decide to do all they can to convince Mikoto to let them share the shrine.
While Mikoto agrees, Ren is wary, as she believes the four stragglers will impede the time she shares with Mikoto. But despite her reservations, Ren eventually concedes. Although these girls all have different interests, they will nonetheless come to form an intimate, unbreakable bond.
Content warnings
Some characters deal with depression, self-loathing, chronic illness, or other challenges. There’s a student-teacher relationship (acknowledged as problematic from the start)
Reason(s) for nominating: diverse, fun, lively, deep, sometimes challenging characters. The main character is especially adorable. Setting and artwork is beautiful. Switches between comedic and highly serious, but most of the time is on the fluffier side. MC has strong, but comprehensible Kansai dialect (I forget region), and it could be a good intro for that sort of thing (at least I thought it was, back when I read it). Also the furigana for everything is definitely helpful.
