[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1: "I'm Getting Married, But Don't Abandon Me"
Seventy years after the attempted suicide. This is a dramatic chronicle of the love and lives of two women who were not allowed by the times, tracing back from 2025 to the postwar period! Kiyoko Ito is 85 years old. She is 85 years old and suffering from dementia. She does not even recognize her family members' faces, but suddenly she is visited by Mitsu Sonoda, her former lover whom she could never forg...
A sad story of two women living their lives right next to one another, but the society making them unable to connect to one another: the main theme of the manga seems to be wanting to be somewhere else and there's a lot of yearning involved.
I found myself really sorry for the main characters in this story and the meandering bits felt pretty difficult to get through, less because of language, more because of rawness.
Aside from the father, there are no men in this story, but they're very heavily implied as being the source of suffering.