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“A young man and supernatural girl share fleeting moments in a bittersweet summer between life and death.”
Hana to Uso to Makoto
花と嘘とマコト
6.5
17,918 rank · 2,516 readers · 3 favorites
Drama
Mystery
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Synopsis
A young man and supernatural girl share fleeting moments in a bittersweet summer between life and death.
In the quiet days before summer arrives, a young man finds himself living an unusual existence in a small apartment. There, he shares his days with Makoto, a girl whose presence defies the natural order of things. As the season unfolds, their strange companionship becomes the backdrop for a deeply emotional journey. This is a story about two souls navigating an impossible situation, where the boundaries between life and death blur, and where every moment together carries the weight of something precious and fleeting. Their connection, born from circumstances beyond ordinary understanding, will challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other.
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 5
σ 1.63
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.63 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Nov 2015 → Jan 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Romance is the way to made story, no matter what shape of the character. Here the romance is not the love of lover, but something between more than friend and less than lover, because each of them...”
- 7 “Story and enjoyment 7/10: The story is good for a short tragedy, but my problem lies with it telling all the details so late even though many of them would have made us bond with the story much...”
- 5 “great premise, poor execution is how i'd put it. the worldbuilding sort of failed. The characters' pasts were vague and disjointed and got minimal, exposition-heavy development far too late in the...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 21 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 48m approx
- Published Jun 2014 – Dec 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M28942 catalog