Kuroki Kemono to Yoru no Hana · review
Familiar premise, but brilliant execution. The art is pretty and flexible; managing to be sweet and dark as the story needs. It helps that the characters are pretty. If there's a criticism, it might be that the resolution feels a bit too soon, a bit too detached. With this kind of Yakuza x Civilian story, the meat of the story lies in the moral conflict AND the sweetness when it's resolved. But with this story, as it moves towards the climax, the POV becomes less and less attached to the characters, until the end we see them happy but we don't know how the moral conflictin each characters are resolved. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad in any way. But it could be more.