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“Elderly widow Hanayo rediscovers love and self-expression through makeup after meeting Yoshiko at a cosmetics store.”
Hana Monogatari
はなものがたり
7.76
1,642 rank · 2,530 readers · 20 favorites
Seinen
Drama
Girls Love
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Synopsis
Elderly widow Hanayo rediscovers love and self-expression through makeup after meeting Yoshiko at a cosmetics store.
The manga centers on Hanayo, an elderly woman whose husband of many years has only recently died. After finishing a Buddhist service for her husband, she finds herself walking out in town alone for the first time in a long time. She stumbles onto a cosmetics store, and meets a beautiful woman named Yoshiko Doujima, and falls in love at first sight. Hanayo had long given up on makeup after her husband nagged her about it, but putting some on with Yoshiko's help brightens her heart. (Source: ANN)
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 7
σ 1.00
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 1.00 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Aug 2024 → Mar 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “This manga is a hauntingly beautiful and honest work that masterfully explores a budding romance between two women in their golden years. The author demonstrates incredible care and attention to...”
- 7 “Hana Monogatari is an inspiring and beautiful work that perfectly captures the giddiness of self-improvement and the liberating, melancholy reality of aging as a woman. There are no notable flaws...”
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Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 16 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 08m approx
- Published Mar 2022 – Jul 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M67082 catalog