All My Darling Daughters

This book was awesome! I found it at the library and figured it would be some kind of sappy romance, but it's actually quite interesting. It weaves together the stories of several women all centered around one particular family. Each chapter focuses on a different relationship, either mother-daughter or someone's love life. We see how behaviors get passed from generation to generation and how peoples' pasts affect their presents. The character development is fantastic, especially for only being one volume. I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone that likes to read slice-of-life stories with drama and humor with a definiteJapanese twist.

"Forgiving and Loving are all different things" Despite only being six chapters long,this manga manages to weave a deceivingly complex story about family,aspiration and reevaluating ones self and their relationship after walking down forgotten memory lane.All six chapters contains different stories with recurring or related characters. Each story is fascinatingly insightful about human lives.This Fumi Yoshinaga masterpiece delivers on every level.It balances the light humor with amazing social commentary and insightful interaction.Also this manga has one of the best closing interaction I've read in any manga.Out of the stories,the second one was a bit too weak and holds it off from being a 10/10 instead of9/10

I found out about this manga via the Book Riot website and I have to be honest when reading the whole thing, I really felt it should’ve focused more on the first story than creating other ones that don’t really relate. Anyways it’s basically about a 30 year old salary woman Yukiko who still lives at home but her mother remarried a young man who’s 3 years younger than Yukiko. Yukiko doesn’t trust the guy since he was a host beforehand and the relationship with her mum is not going according to plan. That’s why Yukiko decides to move out. We then see the otherstories such as a student x teacher realtionship story (it was honestly rushed plus absolutely dumb). Maybe this is me but I feel like this manga wasn’t really taken seriously of Yukiko and her mums relationship like if it was the main focus of the whole manga, I would have no bother with this manga. However putting in stories that aren’t really relating to the “mother-daughter” genre, didn’t make sense for me. I’m probably wrong but that’s how I felt while reading the rest of the manga.