Well, the very first manga that I was able to read and as well as able to finish.. well, after a few years I think of constant search that is..
No published book got available so the net was a real consolation for the real feal of such art printed on tangible paper to be admired from the artist who did this manga..
Anyway, reading it before was really coincidental since the setting was also the same thing I had going in my existence.. but anyway, about the manga now that things have changed from the last time I read it.
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It dwelled too much along Ichitaka. Yoshizuki is always treated as this unreachable goal for this seemingly aimless guy. Of all the other characters, Yoshizuki is the only who I think was not fully introduced. Always considered as an 'Ichitaka's prospect' - 'that pretty girl turned model' or some distant label which doesn't really introduce her real repsonality.. I think..
And then, Ichitaka's fidelity, even though when they weren't still an item, is really incredible. Only glimpses of Yoshizuki's thoughts are given through the series and fractions of it still makes her mysterious in a way that we could only see her through the other characters eyes.
Anyway, that's just how I could compare it to how I appreciated it before. I always sympathized for how Ichitaka went through. Always troubled and uncertain of what to do. Not that he is irresponsible or anything, he's just like that when certain important matters in his perspectives occur and face him.
I always went my way and tried to draw like Masakazu Katsura's I"s.. the artist just amazes me.