Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. (2025)

84DaysWithout

Not Recommended

Preliminary (29/34 chp)

[Warning - Spoilers Abound]

This is one of the few narratives in romance manga that tries to capture teenage sexuality. Through the unique perspectives of five girls, and occasionally one boy, we are privy to the anxiety, angst and temporary euphoria that comes with a maturing body and newfound focus on satisfying the innate desire to be loved.

However, an attempt at realism in fiction does not necessitate a pleasant experience, nor does it make a reading convincingly realistic. Araburu utilizes NTR in a rage inducing love triangle for the purpose of evoking an emotional response from the reader. Unless this is your fetish, it is not ...

buunny

Recommended

Preliminary (12/34 chp)

Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo is an interesting read. It’s a shounen title about a group of girls’ sexual awakening through literature written and drawn by a duo of women. It charts their course from learning love and sex on paper to learning what it feels like for real with sensitivity towards the girls’ experiences and emotions that are often overlooked or sexualized in books of this type when they’re written by men.

That is not to say that the girls in this book are not sexual, they most certainly are, but they are not objectified. Rather, Okada-sensei introduces us in each chapter to some new ...

mochiluv16

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (16/34 chp)

hateno

Not Recommended

Preliminary (31/34 chp)

I wanted to give this manga a 5, as a sort of neutral rating to represent that there was very high highs and very low lows, but ultimately this series ended up being so frustrating that I will dock that extra point on the "highs" side.

*This review will include spoilers since I've completed the series. The manga hasn't finished updating the last few chapters yet, so I supplemented that by looking at raws and watching the anime where I couldn't understand some of the Japanese, since the screenplay is ultimately the same.

I was really into this manga in its early stages. As someone who really ...

ManyNoots

Recommended

Preliminary (13/34 chp)

Fyrebirdi

Recommended

After watching the anime I just HAD to read the manga as it's well known that transitions from manga to anime is sometimes a rocky journey. Not so in this case as the author, Mari Okada, was heavily involved in both.

Let me just say from the onset, Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo is not for the faint of heart. It deals with the risque topic of female sexuality and how young women see romantic relationships. This is not some fan servicey male fantasy, the author is female, her intensions far more complex. Its not about how men see women, but about how women see themselves. ...

WaterIsWet

Not Recommended

Preliminary (20/34 chp)

[Somewhat Spoiler warning.]

Well. This had a lot of potential. That is before it became a big mess. I really had high hopes for it in the beginning. Though once the characters had made some choices, even though others strongly advised against it they ruined it. They turned the story into a love triangle in which nobody will be happy. One in which there is NTR in which one character goes on to cuck their "best friend" in their own words.

I liked a lot of the characters in here, they were cute and I liked seeing them be young but also growing up at the ...

baticeer

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (11/34 chp)