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Perfect Day for Love Letters: Volume 1
contain five stand alone stories about young men and women who send a
love letter from a secret admirer. This book contains the following
stories:
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Love Letters in the Library - Takase Ririko goes to school and
spends time volunteering the the library. She wants a job there
someday as a full-time librarian. One day, when she finds some books
left behind on a table in the library, she flips through them before
she puts them back on the shelf. Inside one of them she finds a love
letter written to her. She begins a quest to find out who could have
written her the note.
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To
One Who Doesn't Know Me - Ayako finds a nice letter from
Masumura Yasushi, a rather big-haired tattooed guy she goes to
school with, that he wrote to another girl. She is touched by his
gentle heart. She writes him back and tells Matumura how she would
love it is she had an admirer like him. They soon start writing back
and forth, but never talking in person. Could this lead to something
more?
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Flowers Blooming in the Snow - Kumashiro has always admired
Miyishita Chiyuki from afar. He writes her a letter and she
responds. But he misunderstands what she is saying. One day he spots
her in a swamp in a boat with another man. He hops in the boat and
later both of them fall out of the boat into the dirty water. While
drying their clothes by a fire, she confesses that the man was about
to rape her.
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Love Letter Panic - One day at school, Haya finds a love letter
in her locker. She has never dressed up before, never worn makeup
and never really cared what other people thought about her. But now
some boy thinks she is cute and she begins a mission to track him
down so they can go out on a date. Haya begins dressing nicer,
wearing makeup and acting like a young woman. Her friend Morimuri is
always by her side and he knows which guys didn't send the letter.
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The
Mailman's Love - Every day, the mailman has been delivering mail
to Sawako. When he approached the house, he would always see her
playing the cello with a man sitting in another chair listening to
the music. But the man has been gone the last few weeks. The mailman
has always admired this blind cello player and reads a letter to her
from the man that left. It is not a good letter. He changes what the
letter says because he does not want to hurt Sawako's feeling
because the man will never be back. So, the mailman starts writing
fake letters from the missing man and reading them to her until he
can stand it no longer. The truth must be told.
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Perfect Day for Love Letters: Volume 1 is a
manga book written and drawn by George Asakura. This book was translated
and adapted by david & Eriko Walsh and Lettered by Foltz Design. This book contains
Letters
1 through 5. There is
also some special extras in the following sections: A Note from the
Author, Bonus Manga, About
the Author, Honorifics Explained, Translation Notes, and a Preview of
Volume 2, although the preview is in Japanese. The book reads from right to left and back to
front, just like a book from Japan. This manga book is intended for
readers ages 16 and up.
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Perfect Day for Love Letters: Volume 1
is an interesting blend of short stories about young people in love. I
wasn't very impressed with the artwork and thought it could have been
better. The five stories themselves are okay, but again, I was not
grabbed by the characters and pulled into the stories. I don't know what
I was hoping for, but maybe it was for some tales that were a little
lighter in nature. In this book you have relationships where a boy is
quite mean to a girl just because he likes her (which I find to be true
in 10-year olds, not high school students), a girl that has been raped,
a man lying to a blind woman, etc. None of it shows the softer side of
love that really exists in the world. Still, I did enjoy reading the
stories and the book does have some good points. Overall, I found
A Perfect Day for Love Letters: Volume 1
to be not bad, but I really think some things may have gotten lost in
translation. So, I will see how things fair in
A Perfect Day for Love Letters: Volume 2.
Let's hope those stories are a little more fun to read.
I rated
this book a 6 out of 10. |
