At the Flower Capital: Hana no Miyako de

This manga is a prequel of Hana nomi zo Shiru, but it can be read as a standalone story and works very well on its own. The story is simple yet powerful, it works around the conflict in a straightforward manner that feels refreshing. The characters are well written and real. There's not much room for character development on such a short manga, but they still stand out as unique. As for the art, it's simply beautiful, as it's usually the case with this artist. Fro those who are bothered by graphic sex scenes, there is one in this manga, but it fits into the plot(so it's not gratuitious porn) and it's pretty light. All in all, a lovely, bittersweet story. If you want a proper happy ending, this might not be the right manga for you, but I personally found the ending to be really satisfying.

The story shows a poor common theme about love, it is not very satisfed because it didn't have much struggle nor desire, the love was there but deeply. A proper love story have to show a little bit more passionate, crazy, adventures, dramtic but not just simple. The problem might be that there was no intense in it, the character show us not the desire of deep love. Something that I love is when the lovers meet and how they develop such fellings but the realization wasn't it. Personally, I did not dislike it but I did not like it either way, the feeling is in themiddle because the story needed somehing more special or unique of other storires.

Fresh off reading the parent story, Only the flower knows, I got into this thinking it would be just your average sequel/prequel and I was, in fact, wrong. “Hana no miyako de” 9/10 I loved it. I’m the biggest sucker for melancholic, retrospective plots, and this three-chapter long story delivered and delivered well. I enjoyed this so much more than the parent story. The pace is actually really good, given the length of the work, and in a few pages you get to see the characters development and struggles as they grow to accept themselves and the future that lies ahead for them. The way the characters meetis more realistic and although still cliché-y, it is well presented and thought out. The segue into the main story is honestly just perfect and I would definitely, 100% recommend this. “Hana no migoro ni” 7/10 It serves as closure to the main story and, however briefly, it does a good job of touching on issues like acceptance. I don’t have much to say as nothing extremely remarkable happens, but it did give me a sense of completion to the story, which isn’t something to take for granted.