老女的少女ひなたちゃん 1

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 having the apperance a little girl
2. Slice of life stories featuring Hinata, her friends and her family. In a lot of these, Hinata behaves largely age apropriate and you could have mostly the same stories without the rebirth aspect.
3. Plot based on Hinata's memories of her previous life and her trying to settle her buisness and concern from that.

As mentioned, I mostly like this manga for being adorable and cute. That refers both to how the characters are drawn and written.

The reincarnation aspect is also interesting. It's not explored terribly deeply. But we do get stories about how she grew up as genious/perfect kid (being able to talk and take care of herself almost from the start), how this affects her older brother. And Hinata does feel sorry for her mother having an old woman for a doughter.

ebook: Note that the first official ebook volume (I bought it on bookwalker) has rather low image quality, making furigana hard to read and reading less enjoyable. Starting from the second volume the quality is much better.

language and difficulty: It's not a very difficult manga and has full furigana. However, its not 100% episodic and has some actual plot. That means that there will be a few scenes that you'll need to understand. Also, Hinata speaks in some kind of dialect, which I think is supposed to make her sound more granny-like. Though that is generally limited to ending her sentences in だべ　or だっぺ.