“Newly dead Kazusa must choose between afterlife and lingering attachments, risking her soul and others' lives.”
Majime na Jikan
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Synopsis
Newly dead Kazusa must choose between afterlife and lingering attachments, risking her soul and others' lives.
Kazusa Uemura's ordinary morning takes an extraordinary turn when she finds herself existing between life and death. As a newly formed spirit, she meets Kyuuji Sakai, a guide who explains the delicate nature of souls in transition—ghosts must navigate their lingering attachments carefully, lest they lose themselves to darker impulses. In this ethereal state, Kazusa discovers that the boundaries between the living and the dead are more permeable than she imagined. As she observes the world she left behind, she begins to understand that her unresolved feelings and unfulfilled desires carry a weight that could shape her eternal fate. Torn between the pull of the afterlife and the temptation to remain connected to the world of the living, Kazusa faces an impossible choice that will determine not just her own destiny, but potentially the lives of those she once knew. This supernatural drama explores themes of grief, acceptance, and the lingering power of human emotion beyond death itself.
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Derived from 4 sampled reviews
What 4 readers settled on.
Strong agreement
σ 0.43 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.25
Running avg · Jun 2013 → Jan 2018
- 7 “Story (7) - This story is from the viewpoint of a girl who just died and it is all about her trying to come to terms with the fact that she really is dead, and her trying to get her family to...”
- 7 “What will happen after we die? A question that were asked by many, but there isn't any valid answer to that question. Though in this manga, we are going to take a lighthearted look on the above...”
- 7 “Not as good of an afterlife-and-living-world-connection story as AnoHana, but it's not bad. It just seems like some things at the end are not fully wrapped up very well, and I just did not find it...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 9 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 12m approx
- Published Dec 2011 – Aug 2012
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M21054 catalog