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“Childhood friends Arthur and Laurent, noble and servant, love each other but their stations forbid it.”
Flower Shadow's Memory
花影の記憶
7.06
1,367 readers · 5 favorites
Historical
Boys Love
Drama
Erotica
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Synopsis
Childhood friends Arthur and Laurent, noble and servant, love each other but their stations forbid it.
Arthur and Laurent were childhood friends that grew up together, but they had the difference of a noble and servant status. As they grew older, they came to understand the difference in their stations. Although both of them have affections for each other, such feelings could not be accepted... (Source: Bliss & Nakama)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
6.0
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 3
σ 1.87
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.87 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↑ 0.00
Running avg · Feb 2011 → Feb 2020
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Hanakage no Kioku has one of the best plots I've seen in a manga, but I was slightly unsatisfied with the artwork. I just personally didn't enjoy the style the mangaka drew the characters-it was...”
- 7 “Hanakage is a pretty decent love story as far as yaoi goes. There's not a whole lot of smut; rather, it focuses on the development of the relationship between their characters as they deal with...”
- 3 “[a minor spoiler... i guess] I liked the premise and the art cover so I glanced a bit over existing reviews and decided to give this manga a read. And I was quickly left severely disappointed and...”
Verbosity
Short · 100%
Medium · 0%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 6 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 48m approx
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M10955 catalog