[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: Akita Baku is a sixteen-year-old boy. He lives with his father, a novelist. Since his older cousin Yoko came to live with them, Mugi has been completely off his rocker. Every day he feels a bit confused. Then, a girl enters Mugi's high school, which is a boys' school. When Mugi goes to the beach with his best friend Tamio, he meets a new student, Nakano Yayoi. Mugi's heart races at the thought of going on a date with Yayoi, whom he...
Interesting collection of a boy's slightly clumsy and 哀れな first experiences of adolescent romance. The main character is interesting, and you simultaneously feel for, and cringe at, him. I liked that the female characters all have lives of their own, and sort of come in and out of the story in different ways.
After each story there's a poem reflecting on or reacting to the story. At the end, there's a while long fairy tale (that I skipped bc long, handwritten prose that wasn't getting to the p