This is a story told over 10 years. A story that begins with a pigtail ... Okashiratsuki - written and drawn by Sahara Mizu - is such a fine, sweet and refined work as few have ever seen. A story about the acceptance of the diversity of others, about love in all its forms. The manga is divided into four volumes, each of which tells the story of Nachi and Kaisei in different narrative arcs, two lovers since kids (the story start at middle school) who face the difficulties born from the prejudice of others. A story of true courage, maturity, treated with the right respect butalso with due lightness. Romanticism is flanked by drama which in turn gives way to lightheartedness and comedy!

Sahara Mizu's inks are precise, soft and full of love for the story it creates. There are no plot holes of any kind and the story flows smoothly without ever getting boring.

Let yourself be carried away by this reading as if you were cradled by the arms of those who love you under a starry sky in a warm summer night.

Surely Okashiratsuki is a masterpiece from which even the best mangaka should use as inspiration.