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“Mai finds solace in a brief, bittersweet romance with Rain, a girl who appears during her heartbreak on a rainy day.”
-rain-
5.31
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Synopsis
Mai finds solace in a brief, bittersweet romance with Rain, a girl who appears during her heartbreak on a rainy day.
"Because I love you." On a rainy day, when Mai got stood up by the guy she likes she met a beautiful girl who told her that she was the Rain and that she had come because of her tears. After that Mai's days were filled with the bitterness of betrayal, only the memory of the girl called Rain can somehow ease her heart. A story of a brief love affair under the rainy season. (summary by kiumi from The Evil Empire)
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 9
σ 1.79
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.79 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.75
Running avg · Aug 2010 → Sep 2017
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I really enjoyed this manga, id read this manga before joining MAL and then i remembered it, eventually found it (after about an hour of searching) and re-read it. Well one shots usually dont have...”
- 9 “First of all, this review may contain spoilers (as this is a One Shot it's quite difficult not to spoil anything), so please read at your own risk. That is all. Wow, this was probably the shortest...”
- 6 “Wellp, we have a saying in my native tongue that goes "short but sweet" (...well I kind of guess it does sound better in Serbian since the words "short" and "sweet" rhyme... but yeah.) And that's...”
Verbosity
Short · 75%
Medium · 25%
Long · 0%
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A One shot Publication
- Format 1 ch ch × vol
- Total read 0h 08m approx
- Published Jan 2008 – ongoing
- Source One shot media type
- Ref. BS-M6605 catalog