老女的少女ひなたちゃん 1

Read this with the wanikani book club.

This was a cute story about a granny who is in a little girl's body. There are slice of life scenes of Hinata interacting with the other kindergarteners, but there are also scenes having to do with Hinata remembering her past life. I was expecting it to be all slice of life, so I was actually surprised and a bit intrigued by the story gesturing at something deeper.

However, I doubt I'll continue this series at the moment- maybe I will if I feel like pic

Cute story, curious about the plot

I read this as my first book of 2024. I'd seen it show up in the global feed here and the premise hooked me in.

The main character is a preschooler with the memories of a grandmother, and the escapades so far remind me a bit of the earlier parts of 本好きの下剋上。There are hints that there is a larger plot in later volumes, but so far this volume has been mostly cute slice of life scenes with some comedy from the main character being 6 going on 86.

From a language learning perspective, it wasn't too

adorable

This manga is one of my favorites. Mostly because its obviously adorable. Note that I've read all but the last volumes.

The manga is about a little girl, Hinata, who remembers her time as an old woman and grandmother in her previous life. The manga starts when the protagoinst Hinata is in her last year in kindergarten and follows her through the first years of primary school.

There are three aspects/type of stories to this manga:

1. Comedy based on Hinata behaving like an old woman despite