ホリミヤ 1

A sweet and silly high school slice of life and a good starter manga

This first volume was a really sweet introduction to the series. The characters are lovable and easy to enjoy, and I enjoy the humor throughout the manga. Hori and Miya are nice characters, and I enjoy the blossoming friend group that begins to form after the school trip towards the end of the volume I read the first volume through book walkers free promotion that just ended at midnight JST. (8/8/2024)

There's full furigana throughout the manga, so it makes a good starter se

I read this with the Absolute Beginners Book Club over on the Wanikani forums!

Language learning: This pick was a little more difficult than some of the ABBC picks due to the casual language/contractions. The Bookwalker version also has very difficult to read furigana like the last review mentioned. This makes it not ideal for one's very first manga, but not too bad if you've read some before already.

Story: I thought I wasn't going to like this very much since it's a highschool romance, but

Ended up binging the first volume in one sitting

Well, this was a surprise. The Absolute Beginner Book Club over at WaniKani forums selected ホリミヤ as their next book club choice, and I was vaguely interested -- so I checked it out since the first three volumes are free for a limited time on BookWalker.

The story really drew me in from the first chapters. The two main characters seem more real than you'd expect in a romcom, with private hidden lives and teenage insecurities providing rich soil for storytelling. The flow of the story and slow bu

Cute!

This was a fun reread of a series that I really like, but in the original Japanese version! I must admit, there were a few times were the nuances of the casual speech threw me off when the characters were talking to each other (probably since I've been reading novels with characters that speak quite formally a lot of the time...) but other than that this was a fairly easy read! The story and the characters are really cute - Miyamura's out of school appearance is gorgeous, not gonna lie. He and H