But its much more.
A layer deeper it is more than any other moe anime/manga. It goes the K-on! route but on a whole new level.
Gochiusa dances around the idea of time ing for a while. It always is, people move on through their years in school, birthdays are had, seasons change. Except the manga has directly presented us with the fact that the ing of time, means some things and end, and new things begin.
It explores that codependency is a beautiful thing, and using a codependent relationship to build independent mindsets is natural and should be celebrated. We all grow up. And sometimes that means leaving the past behind.
Youth is fleeting and Gochiusa knows that. So far almost 4 years have past in the manga. One of the main 5 is in college, 3 are in their senior year, and the final has just started high school and is making her own independent friends.
Chino, the youngest, who was once a shy self kept girl cruching on her magical rabbit grandfather, is now able to be self sufficient without her manic pixie dream girl deuteragonist Cocoa.
And Cocoa knows that as time moves on so must she with her own life.
This manga will make me cry when it ends. I know it.
The story is possibly starting at your standard moe 7-8, but becomes evidently heading torwards a 10 for the reasons above. For now i will give it a 9.
STORY AND THEMES: STROOOOOOOOOONG 9
The characters on their own are 10s. Cocoa is maybe the 2nd best character I've seen in modern east fiction. And the relationships are on a level of Yuru Yuri. Where everyone has a well defined opinion on everyone else. Which is paramount and sometimes lacking in these ensemble cast moe titles.
CHARACTERS AND RELATIONSHIPS: 10
For the art, I IMPLORE YOU, go to safebooru, set the filter to Koi, and look at what they have done lately, it is drop dead gorgeous. No manga has made appreciate color pages as much as it does. the line work is absurdly good throughout the manga. The humor is baked into every along with its moe to be sure. This art style, in my opinion, is 2nd only to that of the esteemed Namori of Yuru Yuri fame. I always buy Koi, the Mangakas, art books when they drop.
ART: 10!!!!!!!!!!
OVERALL: Hands down a true masterpiece. 10
