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Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1 | Akiko Higashimura
5 posts | 7 read | 2 to read
A sharp new comedy about female friendship from the creator of Princess Jellyfish! COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan... So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully single, and she spends most of her nights drinking with her two best friends in their favorite pub. One night, drunk and delusional, Rinko swears to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in 2020. But finding a man--and love--may be a cutthroat, dirty job for a romantic at heart.A sharp new comedy about female friendship from the creator of Princess Jellyfish!
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mariaku21
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1 | Akiko Higashimura
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Mehso-so

For the first volume, it's a good start.

Rinko is a 30something year old single career woman who has realized, along with her two single besties, that she might not be living up to her potential and is in want of getting married before the Tokyo Olympics (2020) rolled around but she's too busy with work, her own fantasies, and drinking with her girls to actually go out and date but there's this one guy that she keeps bumping into so maybe?

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xicanti
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1 | Akiko Higashimura
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Manga + Mini Wheats for breakfast.

I‘m not sure how I feel about this opening volume. It wasn‘t BAD, but it also relies on a lot of age-related marriage stuff that I feel we should‘ve moved past by now. Maybe it‘s another of those Japanese vs Canadian mores things.

Also, I‘m perplexed by Higashimura‘s insistence, here and in PRINCESS JELLYFISH, that 30 is middle aged. Is this also a Japanese thing? To me, 45-50 is middle aged.

Sace How does this compare to Princess Jellyfish in your opinion? I loved PJ and the premise of this just seemed "meh" to me so I haven't even tried it. 5y
xicanti @Sace I‘m gonna give it at least another volume, but so far I like PJ WAY more. 5y
Sace PJ is a really special story IMO. 5y
xicanti @Sace I finally finished it early this month and was so, so happy with how it turned out. What a great series. 5y
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CorLie
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1 | Akiko Higashimura
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I didn't love it, but it was a good start to a series. Unfortunately for me, it was not a $100 start to a series, which is how much the rest of the volunteers would cost me... So I likely will not find out how it ends and whether Rinko figures her stuff out.

#ReadHarder #ReadHarder2019 -A Book of Manga

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CorLie
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1 | Akiko Higashimura
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Reading manga for #ReadHarder challenge.

Arguably this should never not be true, but it can be shocking when all of a sudden you look around and there's no one to help you up.

#ReadHarder2019

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Serotonin
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1 | Akiko Higashimura
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Pickpick

Tokyo Tarareba Girls volumes 1-3

Entertaining story of three friends in their 30s looking for love. I enjoyed the first two volumes, but got slightly annoyed with the main character in the third volume. Overall, I still like the series - good josei 😉 Oh, and did I mention that it‘s by the same mangaka from Princess Jellyfish (which, I still need to finish reading too!).

#tokyotararebagirls #manga #josei

Cheshirecat913 I just bought Princess Jellyfish with some Christmas gift cards. So looking forward to reading it. I have read it about halfway previously but get start over and finish it now. 6y
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