I got this book for my honest review from NetGalley.
I See Your Face Turned Away, is a cute shojo manga. It won the 2024 Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo but I’ll say that personally don’t find it to be that great. Maybe I’m just on my high from Sign of Affection, but I found the manga to be confusing.
I understand that part of that could be my own not being super used to manga, but I also think the fact that there were four different storylines going on made the manga too busy.
Anyway, the manga tells the story of four high school students, specifically in the first volume Hikari and Ohtani. Hikari is an average girl who is focuses on imagining a romance like she sees in manga between her friend Mari and other classmate Ohtani, but as things progress she starts to wonder if she really wants the romance for Mari or for herself.
There are two chapters from her perspective and one from Ohtani’s who doesn’t seem to realize Hikari’s interest. I’m sure it will be better later. But as someone who can’t read super fast I have to be picky.
I want to thank NetGalley for the book and hope to read more manga from them in the future.
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