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This is an adorable Alice in Wonderland retelling, following a girl named Alice who plans on escaping her toxic household by returning to her home city of Kyoto and becoming an apprentice geisha, or maiko. But instead of ending up in the Kyoto she remembers, she crosses over to a fantasy Kyoto and gets caught up in a whirlwind of discovering her place and passions, and maybe even connect with a childhood friend she thought she'd lost!

This manga had a slow start, almost too slow for me. I was really close to putting it down, but then things picked up and of course ended right before they got good!! I loved Alice's journey in Kyoto Forest and her path to discovering who she is and what she wants to do. I definitely wanted to see more of Ren, because now I'm starving until the next volume (which I am DEFINITELY reading). Lovers of cute, soft fantasies will eat this right up.