Ameiro Kochakan Kandan · review
Initially, this was a one-shot manga and the mangaka's debut work. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. That first chapter and the sequel one-shot that is the second chapter are terrible. The art is quite bad, the story doesn't go anywhere, and the characters seem to be introduced without rhyme or reason. It was very sloppy. But I saw this manga was highly recommended somewhere, so I skipped to the middle to see if something changed. It did. It got serialized, and apparently a great editor was brought in to help with the story. The art became very nice as well, so I assume they hiredsome assistants or gave the mangaka more time. I cannot emphasize this enough: if the manga seems like your bag and you're not into the first two chapters, I urge you to skim to chapter 3 and keep going. Most of the initial characterization takes place in those bad chapters, so you can't completely skip them, unfortunately.
The story after serialization is really short, only two volumes and with enough meat for about one and half. Nonetheless, it is as heartwarming as they say and worthwhile. I had a great time reading this before bed each night for a while. In the sign-off, the mangaka teased some ideas for more stories with the characters in this, and I would be very interested in reading them.
Note that there are 16 chapters of the main story, with some side stuff that's collected alongside and is just as good. However, this MAL entry also includes another work from the mangaka called "Otome-iro Stay Tune". They take place in the same universe and the magazine that was serializing this second work was cancelled, so the two were collected together. This second work is about two seiyu recording a radio show together. It doesn't have enough time to develop into anything, but it looks cute.