Volume 1 Introduction: Lillian Girls' Academy is a private school for purely cultured maidens. In order to carry on the pure and correct school life, a system called "sisters (suru)" exists in the upper school. After the students pledged to become sisters through a ceremony in which they received a rosary, the older sisters would mentor the younger sisters. Yumi, who had not yet had an older sister when she entered the upper secondary school, was suddenly declared a "sister" by Sachiko, a sophom...
4,5星をあげたくなる。１番目のストーリーで中間の部分から最後の部分で話はちょっと低迷していて（アニメで知っているため、経過が予測出来た）。けど満足する終点や面白くストーリーを披露している。
４でわなく５星をあげた理由は２番目の話。個人的に第１～３巻は凄く感動的で力強い話だった。1話の繋げ方は素晴らしいと思う。いつも通りあまり好きじゃないキャラたちだが新しい理由が私に同情の念を与えた。
とにかく、説明をここで終わし、読む人たちに楽しんでもらいたい。
I was torn on whether to give this a 4 or 5. There were some parts towards the middle to end of the first story (it's a double feature) that kind of dragged for me (in part bc I knew the contents from the anime, and in part bc things had already been made clear). But they arrived at a satisfying endpoint, with a rather interesting reveal.
The thing that made me upgrade it to a 5 is the second story in the book. For me at least, it was the most emotionally moving and powerful part of the first 3 books. And the way it connects to the first story is absolutely brilliant. As always the story manages to take characters I'm not so positive about, and give me a new reason to empathize with them.
Anyway I won't say anymore, but hope whoever reads this enjoys it as much as I did!