“Lonely 31-year-old Midori bonds with her deceased friend's daughter Haruko, forming a mother-daughter relationship.”
Haru to Midori
春とみどり
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Synopsis
Lonely 31-year-old Midori bonds with her deceased friend's daughter Haruko, forming a mother-daughter relationship.
Midori isn't good with people, and at 31 years old, she feels like she has no place in life. One day, she attends Tsugumi's funeral, a close friend of hers from junior high school. Unable to forget about her, she has a vision of the young friend she knew standing above her – only it isn't the girl she once knew, but her daughter, Haruko. This is a story of the relationship between a woman without a place and a child without a mother. (Source: Flex Comix)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
What 3 readers settled on.
Strong agreement
σ 0.47 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 0.33
Running avg · Nov 2020 → May 2025
- 8 “I don't really get its MAL score. This is not 'Yuri' or 'Romance', though there are hints of it, but not between the main characters. If you want to have romance with age gap, this is not it. If...”
- 7 “I'm just going to say it straight forward This is not a LOVE STORY,this is not ROMANCE That's a story about an unexpected bond between two individual people working on getting over grife. There is...”
- 7 “Readers looking for an age gap yuri manga will probably be dissatisfied with this series, because the relationship between our main characters Haru and Midori isn't portrayed as romantic. But don't...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 15 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 00m approx
- Published Nov 2018 – Jun 2020
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M50948 catalog