Proceed with care. This review might have some mild spoiler to its content. So I hope you understand and still give it a try after reading this. Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru, a mild drama-based story that takes place in a certain household that has many characters and people in there. The story starts when Naotatsu when entering a certain high school that demands him to commute a long distance from his house and decides to take his uncle's recommendation to live in his "house". Little did he know in the house that he boarded, there are a certain people there not just his uncle. Theplot itself thicken when he met Sakaki whom he misinterpreted by saying that she is his uncle's girlfriend.

[Story: 10]
After meeting with Sakaki, he then knows everything that happens in the past and then he tried to be a big man trying to solve all of his feeling about what happened down in the line. Not to mention Sakaki's life does actually change from time to time when she splurged any details about their past. The plot does thicken from each chapter but nevertheless, their comedy is always spot on to relieve the tension in between. The formula that the author gives is so good compare to other mild drama series that I had toward the years of my journey, they give a serious vibe but never stopped giving me time to get relief in every chapter. I think this fact gives it 10 from my point of view.

[Art: 8]
Not that the art was bad, but the way it is like they are an HD rough sketch that is often still in the draft. It's not bad, but it's not the best. But not gonna lie, I actually liked this art and it's refreshing to watch that the author like gives this old style (in my opinion) type of art in this new modern type of series.

[Character: 10]
The characterization is very good by miles. Every character has their ups and downs in their life, but they keep supporting the main character to the point they have to give themself hard time to understand the other feeling and they had to reciprocate to every talk they have and put themself in other shoes. It's a good feeling for me to read and understand the characters in my own way.

Not gonna lie, when I read the first 2 chapters, I already know the reason that this manga ranked fifth in 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! award. The depth of the story, the characterization and many more aspects that I don't remember because of my joy feeling when reading this have failed me in this review itself. The ending itself is not that easy to guess when you start the first chaps, and the author wrap that in a way that we can agree on.