Cigarette Girl
Let me preface this with saying that I actually really like slice-of-life anime and manga. For the majority of the time that I was reading this work, I didn't really enjoy it too much? That's not to say that I didn't like it though; for me it just felt like something that was sat there in front of me, as opposed to something that I would actually actively try to engage with. I thought the art style was interesting, although I feel like an area that this work falls short in is that there's a few characters that look either the same or very similar? For instance, the main boy who shows up at the beginning and end, looks exactly like the kid with the mom that left their family. I think the confusion was amplified for me because the initial first boy hadn't shown up in a while, and when the kid came back (with the only difference pretty much being freckles) I had to go back to the beginning to check and make sure it was a different person. I think most of my confusion m
