Tokyo Photograph - MOMOJI Nozomi

Tokyo Photograph
Momoji Nozomi
2012

2012 year-end release, where a hometown kansai girl spend her break to visit her brother in Tokyo. The place she ever dreamed of to find love in Tokyo men whom she find as cool guys unlike in her hometown. She visited her brother yet its a different guy who welcomed her, her brother's kouhai. A gloomy guy yet no sense fashion captured the girl's heart.

I think the story was rushed but I like the cliff hanger love story. They start off as friends touring the girl around Tokyo. Then they developed their feelings and boom, love gets in. Kinda too short for a oneshot because they dont really express their feeling much, but the ending was sweet - a long distance relationship 'it works' :)

Half and Half - NANAMI Mao

Half and Half
Nanami Mao
Kodasha, 2008

Whatever gender it is, you can’t stop that heart of yours if it keeps pounding hard. That is what SHE feels when her childhood friend, whom she loved and her unrequited love, came back to their hometown in a different phase. He became She. Good thing he didn’t went to surgery; it’s just wig and padding. Yey! A romantic-comedy gender bender summer story I’ve read. I love this couple. One, who’s insecure of how beautiful her unrequited love became, and still loved him. And the other one, who knew he liked guys yet he preferred her in the end. They’ve promised that they will marry each other when they grew up but life isn’t just all sweetness. The boy needs to move away and left the girl waiting. And in that one summer time, their story just started again when he came back. But their love story had already started a long time ago. No matter which way they run to. It will never be perfect for them. Indeed, their happiness is different from anyone else.

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