Author: Madoka Harumi/Tran
slators: Chelsea Inaba & Yoshino Kazuki
Illustrator: Nacht
My rating: 4 of 5
With her weak body and her inability to stand much sunlight, Itsuko has always stood a bit apart, sitting out of PE and carrying a parasol around to block the sunshine. Certainly, it’s a surprise when one of the most popular boys in her middle school begins showing an interest in her, going so far as to ask her out to the summer festival. Odder still, that it would be Miyano, a boy notorious for only showing up for school when the sun is shining. Talk about opposites! But when Miyano finds a cute little teddy-bear charm by the notice board, Itsuko somehow finds herself dragged along on his mad hunt to find its owner in spite of herself.
Whether it Rains or Shines Tomorrow is such a cute, ordinary sort of story that it’s actually quite delightful in a way. It’s a story about normal, modern-day Japanese kids in a suburban sort of environment just living their daily life, sorting out problems with friends, handling problems, falling in love, and dealing with all those crazy emotions that are just part of life at that age. Itsuko, Miyano, and Itsuko’s friend Mana are all fairly ordinary kids although their personalities are anything but dull. They’re easy to relate to, which is a good thing. The plot is nothing crazy, just a shoujo slice-of-life romance/drama, but it’s cute. It’s nice to see a light novella in a shoujo style; there’s such a preponderance of seinen light novels on the market it seems (which isn’t a bad thing, but variety’s nice). My one complaint is that the whole “sun allergy” thing was a bit weird . . . but it mostly worked pretty well. Whether it Rains or Shines Tomorrow is a cute, short light novella that would be a fun read for readers in middle school and up.
Note: As far as I know, this light novella is currently only available digitally (I’m pretty sure it’s available on iTunes and Google Play). For more great information, see the review at englishlightnovels.com.
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I’ll have to check this out. Shoujo-style fiction is so rare!
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It’s so true. Which is kind of weird, considering how much shoujo manga there is. I wonder why. . . .
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Nawwwww I’ll have to give this a read as well !!!!
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Haha! I know right? For what it’s worth, this is less than 90 pages long. Definitely a quick read, but very cute. 🙂
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Oh a novella! I was expecting it to be a manga from the looks of things, in which it would have been a pretty generic manga (there are so many manga in which the main character is a sick ailing teenage girl, and the popular guy in the class takes notice of her), but perhaps the writing will redeem it. Thanks for dropping by The Galaxial Word! 😀
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Yeah, it’s pretty neat to find this general storyline in novella form. 🙂 The writing isn’t spectacular, but it’s quite decent. I enjoyed the story, in any case. Plus, it’s short enough and cheap enough that it’s not a huge investment to try. : D
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