僕らの食卓

A wonderful, warm 癒し系 story

I'm not usually a huge fan of 癒し系 works; they feel cute, but don't generally leave any sort of lasting impression on me. 僕らの食卓 exceeded all of my modest expectations, however: this manga felt like the epitome of happiness on a sad day for me. It's sweet, warm, comfy, and manages to touch on a couple of different relationship topics in a satisfying way.

We follow 豊 (ゆたか), a young man who's been estranged with his family for some time. One day he bumps into little boy 種 (たね) and shares some food with him, only to be invited back to 種's house to do a small cooking lesson for 種 and his older brother, 穣 (みのる). The three start to spend more and more time together, and 豊 starts to find himself loving this family more and more.

The art has a kind of sketchy style to it, which I felt complemented the story well; the book is set during the winter, and I felt as comfy as the characters looked, bundled up in jackets or under blankets.

This was a pretty easy manga to read; there's a good bit of handwriting text on 種's part, usually him quibbling with his older brother, but otherwise the vocabulary generally falls into general day-to-day categories. I read the Kindle version, and at the time of this review felts that, while the quality was overall okay, furigana could be hard to read.