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The Story ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ The story is centered on Nanoka Koyanagi, a grade school student who has a class assignment: to discover what happiness means. Being a smart kid, she started looking for an answer that would deviate from common cliches and surprise everyone. She seeks help from three different people: Minami, a high school student who self-harms, Abazure, an adult woman who lives alone, and Granny, a wise old woman who bakes candies and plays with her.Even though I found the ending a bit weak, overall, the story of this manga is pretty good. I think the main point is being educational. There's a lot of philosophy in this manga. Nanoka's search for the meaning of happiness starts to take different forms and presents you with different meanings and also different lessons. Nanoka uses her catch phrase, "Life is like..." a lot to start or analyze the meaning of life or happiness. This review title has that catch phrase, and if you're curious to feel that philosophy style of this manga, here is a preview:
" Life is like lunch time, you have limited time. You have to make the most of it. "
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The Art Style ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ The art style is good. I recognized the style at first glance because it was made by Izumi Kirihara. If you don't know her, she also draws Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai/I Want to Eat Your Pancreas.
I personally find her art pretty good when it comes to lightning and shadows, and they're especially well drawn when you have a panel that should deliver an emotional blow.Backgrounds and everything are okay. The only small complaint that I could raise is that I feel like the characters are a bit similar in the art-style, but that's not the end of the world.
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The Characters ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ There are a moderate number of characters in this work; the main character and her family, her friends, her teacher, and her classmates. I think that the character development of the main character, teacher, and friends is good. But when it comes to background characters, they're just there to help support the main drama.════ ⋆★⋆ ════
Conclusion ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ If you're like me, you skip everything and read only the conclusion because you don't want to get spoiled with other themes. So I will try to be brief on this point:Read it. Mata, Onaji Yume wo Miteita despite being short, it has a lot of philosophical moments and may lead you to think more about what happiness and being happy mean to you.