A Perfect Day for Love Letters 2
Posted: January 9, 2006 Filed under: A Perfect Day for Love Letters Leave a comment »George Asakura – Del Rey – 2005 – 2 volumes
This volume was HUGE and also good. My favorite story by far was the one where the girl took swimming lessons from the guy and the love letter was a very simple thing. That entire story was understated and very sweet. The one with the obnoxious dead older brother who wrote a love letter to a masseuse almost had me in tears, but I disagreed with it fundamentally since the younger brother hated the older one so much. Sadder still. There was the notebook-exchange one, and I liked that one a lot too since it had a pretty involved love letter, as did the fax one at the beginning… oh, they were all good. Buy this series if you like shoujo manga. It doesn’t have great art, but I’m fond of this style now and the stories are quite good. They’re varied enough so that it doesn’t rely on the convention I mentioned last time where the lover is a secret… really that only pops up in the very first story in the first volume and maybe one or two other times throughout the ten/eleven stories. They’re all so good, though.
