365 Days to the Wedding

Wholesome manga with some cute moment while also being relatable to young adults. Well executed manga with a conclusive ending. It got quite an interesting premise follow it throughout the story. The main theme of this piece is about overcoming your introverted self and learn how to express your true feeling toward other, which is very relatable. The characters are well-developed, and you can see their change throughout the series albeit not that drastic. They have many cute moments that doesn't seem cliche or cringy at all. The way they handle the relationship with the MCs and their respective family in the manga is quite natural andinteresting. That being said, it follows the same motif as many offices romance and can become quite predictable at time. It doesn't add anything new which to the genre so i give it the rating of 8/10.

Story is about two employees at a company who didn't want to get transferred to Russia therefore started a pretend engagement. The story evolves from there into a really interesting character romance between two working adults - no silly misunderstandings or love triangles. Tackles issues revolving around family, relationships, work so well between our two introverted MCs. The arc around the MC's father and the countryside was absolutely Cinema and brought a tear to my eyes. Very well executed story. The arcs around the FMC and her mother and her half-sister were dealt with pretty poorly - therefore this story has a very written familyfor the male MC only unfortunately :( Otherwise, the rest of the story was done very well! :D

The topic of when two people decide to do a fake relationship/wedding/marriage has been around quite a lot. However, here we have two people who value their peace of mind and want to keep it. For my part, I liked the character development. However, what bothered me at times was at some points it felt like the author stepped on the brake and set their relationship back a bit to get it going again. In some cases he skipped ahead a big chunk. But it didn't completely ruin the overall impression for me. The side characters weren't annoying and moved the story forward. The artwork made themspread apart well, not like other manga. The artist really played with nature, drawing the mountains beautifully or even parts of Tokyo, where I even remembered walking through some parts when I was there a solid amount of years ago. I think some things in the manga weren't worked out, or were forgotten, and it would be nice to resolve them, but everything can't be sun-drenched :-). There are a few moments I would very much like to reread and will remember fondly. For me, definitely a piece I would recommend. The finale was in the spirit of the manga, so for me, satisfaction as well.