timefliesaway's Reviews (588)

Der Start in die Geschichte war ganz gut. Ich hab lang nicht mehr ein Buch aus der auktorialen Sicht gelesen (außer Comics, meine jetzt aber speziell Romane), weshalb das auch mal wieder cool war. 

Wundervoll ist die Repräsentation an Behinderungen bei den Nebencharakteren und der positive Umgang damit. 

Genauso find ich es schön, dass der Autor sich für ein „einfaches“ Cover entschieden und was eigenes seinem eigenen Buch gegeben hat, das zwar nicht das ist, was Fans geil macht (vom künstlerischen Level her), andererseits es von den extrem detaillierten Covern hervorstechen lässt. 
Zwar traurig, dass man das heutzutage dazusagen muss, aber die meisten Autoren würden leider nicht mal dran denken, selbst einen Stift in die Hand zu legen, und greifen lieber zu seelenlosen Mashup-Maschinen, die auf Diebstahl basieren… also Pluspunkt dafür.

Wer klassische Shounen-Animes bzw. Light Novels mag, wie zB Naruto, für den ist es absolut was. 

Mein AniManga Geschmack ist allerdings schon sehr „anders“, weswegen mich Klassiker wie Naruto und alles ähnliche an Storys nicht besonders anspornen. Ich mochte zwar immer wieder einige Kleinigkeiten, im Großen und Ganzen war es aber leider ein eher langatmiges Leseerlebnis. Wie gesagt mochte ich einzelne Aspekte (zB die Freundschaften, einige Messages bezüglich dem Helfen, behinderte Rep.), aber es gab immer wieder etwas, das mich nervte und einfach zu sehr „klassisch Shounen-Anime“ war (zB immer gewinnender Protagonist, Kampfszenen in gefühlt jedem Kapitel, Frauen sind untergeben).

Ebenfalls sollte am Schreibstil noch geschliffen (manchmal fragliche Begriffe verwendet) und auch die Rechtschreibung sowie Grammatik besser überprüft werden. Hat sich schon immer wieder sehr gehäuft.

Dem Inhalt würd ich nicht mehr als 3 Sterne geben, aber durch das Cover sind es dann 3,5.

Trotzdem werde ich bei den nächsten Teilen noch vorbeischauen.
Vielen Dank für das Reziexemplar.

-27.02.24

Luisa findet eines Tages heraus, dass sie mit Tieren sprechen kann. Allerdings muss das ein Geheimnis bleiben, wie ihr ein Schmetterling mitteilt, ansonsten geht die Gabe verloren. Da Luisa auf einem Hof mit ihren Eltern lebt, gibt es immer viele Abenteuer mit den Tieren. Hauptsächlich nutzt sie diese Gabe, um Tieren in Not zu helfen. Gerade denen, die wegen den Menschen in einer heiklen Situation stecken.

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Ein süßes Kinderbuch mit 6 Kurzgeschichten, die Kindern ein super Vorbild geben, wenn es darum geht, die Tiere und die Natur wertzuschätzen. Besonders inspiriert es, die kleinen Tiere im Gras anzuerkennen und auf sie zu achten. 

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Kontrastreich fand ich deshalb, dass so positiv über den Zirkus geschrieben wurde. In einem Buch über Tierliebe ist ein Zirkus wohl eher fehl am Platz...
Es wurde zwar ein Tier in dem Kapitel gerettet, aber trotzdem passt das nicht ganz.

Unnötig waren einzelne englischen Wörter, insbesondere "Daddy" und "Mom". Mom geht ja noch, aber Daddy"? In einem Kinderbuch? Etwas... ungeeignet. Zumal Luisa nicht englischsprachig scheint und es in Deutschland spielt. Also, bitte, dann auch bei den deutschen Anreden bleiben – tut euch selbst den Gefallen. 
Ebenso aber auch Sätze wie „Luisa ist happy und erleichtert“. "Happy" ist ein Wort, das sich leicht übersetzen lässt und es dazu eigentlich kein Anglizismus braucht. 

Nervig fand ich auch ein wenig die teils vermenschlichten Tiere bzw. die Bräuche. Zum Bsp., dass eine weibliche Maus "hübsch" aussehen muss, sonst findet sie keinen Mann. Dieses toxisch-weibliche Denken muss jetzt nicht in einem Buch mit der Zielgruppe Mädchen zu finden sein.
Oder dass Frösche eine Hochzeit haben. Schon klar, dass es menschliche Traditionen "romantisieren" soll, wie so oft in Kinderbüchern, aber hier wäre es eine perfekte Möglichkeit gewesen, Kindern zu zeigen, wie die Realität (die nicht immer unromantisch ist) aussieht. Denn auch Tiere haben viele romantische Bräuche, die unseren Hochzeiten sogar ähnlich kommen, aber dennoch anders sind.  

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Abgesehen von den Kleinigkeiten dennoch ein süßes Buch für zwischendurch. Besonders gefallen mir die Zeichnungen der Tiere und das blinde Pferd mag ich am meisten! :3
Ebenso war es immer schön, wie sehr Luisa um die Tiere gekämpft und alles dafür getan hat, dass sie auch wirklich heil und sicher sind.

-27.02.24

Vielen lieben Dank an die Autorin für ein Rezensionsexemplar.
Die Meinung ist meine eigene und wurde davon nicht beeinflusst.

The backstory of Kanon and Ayano has now been fully revealed.
Her first appearance made it seem like she's just a mean bitch, but her story was actually quite heavy. Which doesn't really "justify" the way she acted in chapter 3, but makes it more understanding. 

Truly amazing how optimistic Saki is and how she sees the good in everyone & everything.

With the festival coming up, Saki's and Kanon's class choir is planning to perform, which brings back bad memories of Kanon's last performance in middle school. She wants to participate, but also doesn't want to cause trouble for everyone. 
A previous antagonist unintentionally helps her with that, which was great but also sus. Not gonna spoiler, but I hope the situation will be cleared up in the next volume! It was quite sudden after all.

I also love the song choice for the choir, especially the thought the author put in. I didn't even know the background and message of that song!

-15.02.24

Quite unexpected!
I guess I read a little too many Mangas with unbalanced pace, so I'm actually surprised the author had it balanced it here. It started fast, was fast in the middle and ended fast as well. Nice! 
I mean, there were still slow moments, so it's not like it was constantly going back and forth. Overall the pace was balanced, without spending too much time on unnecessary drama. 
There were still lots of misunderstands, but got cleared up quickly.

I also imagined the story a little different. I thought it would be typical Manga comedy with thousand chapters, where the MC desperately tries to approach their crush, but just ends up failing in a hilarious way. Basically what I think of when someone says "rom-com". 
While there was still basic comedy of AniManga with the nose-bleeding, for example, the author did not "waste" many chapters on the approach. They actually go on a date already in the first volume. 

But I'm not disappointed at all. It was a fresh breath for the genre.

What I didn't entirely like was that the main couple doesn't have that much chemistry... it's not non-existent or anything, but you probably wouldn't guess right away that they're together, if you were in a room with them. But that also kinda makes it more realistic?

On the other hand, the side couple was nice. Also a bit unexpected, as they had main-couple-energy. 

It was cool overall tho. Recommend it. 

-14.02.24

Well, that was quite melancholic at the end again (which was both great and not), but overall this volume had much more of a sad vibe. 

Saki still is effected by what Rinne said, and at the same time also by her past. There isn't much revealed yet, but from what is teased, it's possible Saki had a crush on a girl before and it didn't end well. With homophobia/heteronormativity involved.

Like I said, I do love melancholy (like in the last chapter of this volume), but not when it becomes overly sad. Not even in a depressing way, but more in a "why does society have to be so close-minded" way. And at some point that can get a bit annoying, so 4 stars again.

The author and artist do overall a great job in portraying these heavy matters. I'm just not a fan of homophobia, especially when it started out relatively positive... and considering it came out in 2022. 
I will keep reading though.

-11.02.24

Quite a melancholic voume, which is why it gets 5 stars. 
If you've been following my reviews, you might've noticed that I'm a sucker for melancholy. And while it is sometimes a love-hate relationship with melancholic tropes, at the end of the day, I love it. 

I won't spoiler what exactly the melancholic bits were – go read it for yourself! – but they were well done. Something I've more or less experienced myself (not in the exact same way, but similar), so it was easy to relate to all of the characters present. It's amazing and scary how difficult the topic can be. Though it wouldn't be that difficult, if society weren't so ableist and made life easier for disabled people. 

Which the author also discusses. It's not even just disabled people who have it hard. Pretty much anyone who doesn't fall into the heteronormative way of living has it difficult. Which sucks.
But maybe this series can make a difference?

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As for the romantic storyline, it's going quite well. Saki has less confidence when it comes to her crush – although that's due to the melancholic bits –, but Kanon on the other hand is getting more warm and comfortable with her. They held hands and had a movie date! As well as lots of communication. <3 

-11.02.24

Kanon and Saki are seat neighbors, who just have started high school.

Kanon is hearing impaired, but because she only lost her hearing at age 5, she can talk normally and afterwards focused on learning to read lips, which is why she doesn't communicate in sign language. This also leads to people not fully believing her that she's deaf, which makes high school even harder than it already is for any other average teenager. 

Saki, a relatively normal teenage girl, bumped into Kanon the day before and because Kanon was so kind to her, she developed a crush (on top of finding Kanon beautiful). It's at first a surprise to her when she learns Kanon is deaf, but that doesn't stop her from trying to befriend her. If only Kanon weren't so closed-off...

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Wonderful portrayal of, "yes, I'm disabled but that doesn't mean I can't be independent". It's also great that it shows being deaf is a spectrum and, once again, things aren't just black & white. 

I did hope for SL representation, since there are already a ton of talking characters in Manga, and simply not many who speak in Sign Language. On top of that, it isn't depressing like "Koe no Katachi", so it would've been awesome to have that rep. 
But on the other hand, it's also cool to have a disabled character, who can totally take care of themselves and doesn't let their disability take the better of them. (Well, more or less. She is quite closed off from people due to being bullied in the past, but overall she's quite confident.)

It's nice how Saki already seems to know she's lesbian and is very okay with having a crush on Kanon. 
Kanon sadly seems to be quite heteronormative, and I hope she's not homophobic... 

Overall recommended, though.
Will go "straight" (;) to reading volume 2!

-11.02.24

Beautiful ending!

I only didn't like how, in the middle of it, the pace suddenly quickly went up, when before it was really slow-paced. It felt like the author suddenly realized they have a limited page/chapter count to publish the Manga but didn't want to redraw the first half... which is totally understandable, if that's the case, but a bit off-putting at first.

Still, overall it was really cute and

I'm glad we got one (and a half) chapter of them just being girlfriends! I was afraid it might end with just their confession and "then they lived happily ever after". But glad that was not the case!

It's also nice how Akira's character was handled. She didn't just miraculously turn poly, and it is being acknowledged that she's still getting used to it. 

The scene at the beach was so beautiful, I totally cried my eyes out!! 

It was a bit too dramatic overall... but I hope the author does more of them, cause I'd really like a third volume of them just being cute (& sexy ;) girlfriends... but overall I'm happy that this exists and that I got to read it! *-*

-30.01.24

A love triangle, where the three people in question don't know that they actually all know each other. Another amazing manga portrayal of "how small the world can be"... XD

Though it starts quite dramatic and in the typical "will she love me, will she not" and "I’m not in her league", it is made clear from the beginning that it’s poly. One character knows they’re polysexual & -romantic from the start. The other two not yet, but they're on their way, each in their own pace.

 

I like how the first 3 chapters introduced the backstory of each of them separately, right off the bat. So you know what they went through, who they're crushing on, etc, already. 

 

Can’t wait for the three to find out they actually are friends, and already know each other, and then hopefully get together! I mean, that they will get together should be clear, based on the cover, but I hope there won’t be extreme drama. Need some fluffy poly! 

 

-30.01.24 

This was weird... but also good?

If you're looking for...

... then this is for you.

If you're expecting a real, sweet Yuri story, then this might rather not be for you.
Especially if you cannot distinguish between an author's imagination and real life kinks.

I was mainly looking for Borderline H, so wasn't disappointed in that. 6 chapters only but some kinda make-out in every chapter.

The main couple is a bit... icky... but the side couple(s) is/are... interesting.

The toxic characters and the attempt on a storyline was rather a "meh" for me, but the plus is that the characters actually acknowledge their own toxicity and don't play it down. There's no character development. They're basically just like, "wow, I'm so toxic... but now I already started this mess, so might as well keep going."

And I mean... why not? I wouldn't want to read through that trope for 3+ books, but 1 volume is perfectly fine.

Didn't like Yuni's backstory with her girlfriend much, but other than that... why not. Can recommend for a quickie.

Don't take the tropes in there too serious, though, and just see it as a piece of fiction. Just a fragment of an author's imagination. Nothing to apply onto real life.

-24.01.24