“Five-chapter collection featuring "Promise," "Since You've Been Gone," and Karino Yoshihito's backstory, including a dog transformation tale.”
Mizu ga Kooru ni Naru Toki
水が氷になるとき
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Five-chapter collection featuring "Promise," "Since You've Been Gone," and Karino Yoshihito's backstory, including a dog transformation tale.
Contains 5 chapters and the afterword. "Promise" and "Since You've Been Gone", which can be found in "Four Shoujo Stories", are included. We open with a light-hearted story of a guy whose best friend is highly dependent on him on all matters. He tells his friend he can continue his clingy ways only if he were a dog. His friend goes missing, but then he comes across a dog... The next two very solid chapters are "Promise" and "Since You've Been Gone". The former tells the story of a girl who keeps running into this mysterious young man whenever she is troubled. "Since You've Been Gone" is on a cheating man whose lover is trying to persuade him into taking a trip with her and leaving his wife for good. Karino Yoshihito* takes the stage again for the last two chapters; we get to know more about him when he was 26 and 15. *recurring main character in some of Nishi Keiko's stories; see "September" and "The Another Ocean" (Source: MU)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 5 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 40m approx
- Published Jan 1990 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M18107 catalog