Days of Love at Seagull Villa Vol. 1

I bought this volume based on the author's previous work (I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up) and it didn't disappoint.The volume revolves around Mayumi, a middle school teacher who leaves Tokyo for the countryside after getting dumped by her boyfriend. While there, she meets Rin, a rough-around-the-edges girl who becomes her landlord. Mayumi is awkward and reserved, and Rin is boisterous and energetic, but both are hiding deep, personal pain that they are handling in their own way.This is a yuri story, but it's setting up to be more than that. There are the hints of future romance between Mayumi and Rin, but that takes a backseat to Mayumi's struggle to fit in to her new surroundings and her difficulties in getting along with Rin, who is her exact opposite. And the conflict doesn't stop there, as Rin's niece and a neighbor girl (who also happens to be Mayumi's student) also prominently feature in the story.This is a wonderful book and well worth the price of admission. I hope volume 2 doesn't take too long in coming out.

Love it. Great quality from buying second hand!

This was really cute! I'm already invested in this little town, the people in it and especially our main character and her journey!

Mayumi's life is turned upside down when the two people closest to her betrayed her, she felt the only option was to run away from her busy life in Tokyo to a slower, quieter life in the countryside. A chance meeting with her (then unknown) landlord Rin, that's when her "slow," county life really took off.This is definitely a slowburn romance that is sadly only 3 volumes. The two main characters lives aren't the only lives explored, which I find refreshing for girl's love (yuri) manga. I really like how side characters develop alongside the main duo, even the background characters, they are all interesting folks that I'd like to learn more about. And there's even a child character, Hinata, Rin's niece that she now takes care of, throw in the mix, making things all the more interesting.I'm not partial to kids, and while children in stories can be valuable for the story telling aspect, I find myself really fond of Hinata, she's sweet and spunky, she's just adorable! And a really valued part of the story, not just a cute story-telling tool.The art is soft and bubbly, giving the book a relaxed tone. I've never felt comfort from a book, like how people say they do, I've felt joy with the characters, anger, sadness, but I've never felt like a book give me a hug, until I read Days of Love at Seagull Villa. This is truly a comfort read.I am highly looking forward to the next two volumes, and I already know I'm going to be sad at the end of volume three, wishing that there was more.

Its an adorable series! It's all fiction, no need to pearl clutch over the half-sisters plot line.

I love these two characters and seeing their background. I can't to see their love blossom. Hinata makes them a cute little family.

A delightful, heartfelt story through and through. Mayumi seeks to escape her former life at Seagull Villa. After meeting Rin, the new one she finds is far from what she expected. Both have solid character arcs throughout the series. While somewhat mundane, that's the point and the story has a genuine truth to it. Well worth reading all three books.

Interesante historia, lis personajes y el ambiente me parecio creible y, lis lazos afectivos que se desarrollan me parecen tiernos. Altamente recomendado.

Eine nette Geschichte mit sympatischen figuren.Gut für fans von Naoko Kodama.Mittlerwile auch auf deutsch erhältlich.

I was expecting this to have the same sort of wholesome vibes as 'Our Dining Table', but it really didn't.The characters both have sympathetic backstories but are not likeable in my opinion. The main girl straight away comes across as prejudiced towards the other. The other is overly brash and has no concept of personal boundaries, bordering on creepy. The 'romance' is simultaneously bland and moving too quickly.The art is fine, but nothing blew me away.There are some creepy moments that I tried to brush off but just got worse throughout.There's a toddler character who seems obsessed with one of the adults breasts, fondling and suckling them at random even though they've barely met.The kid also appears in states of undress in a way that when combined with the other creepy aspects just feels weird and unecessary.Maybe it's meant to be funny or cute but it doesn't come across that way to me.To top it off a side plot gets introduced that has incest.I was astounded because no other review I saw mentioned this. I thought perhaps I'd misunderstood the two girls relationship to each other but nope, it only gets clearer in volume two.It's mentioned a couple of times that they "share the same blood" and the manga seems to condone the relationship completely, too. One character points out that 'you are both girls! And half sisters!' (as if the lesbian aspect takes priority...)The girl asks 'is that wrong?' and the other character says that it isn't(!)I feel really misled as there was no mention of this incest side plot anywhere, but it seems to become the main storyline in volume two!I wish I hadn't bought this as it makes me feel uncomfortable to think I supported such content, but there is no indication of the incest in the description.Potential buyers see this as a warning.

Die Charaktere sind beide gut durchdacht und es ist absolut keine seichte Storyline wie bei manch anderen Manga.Bin gespannt auf die weiteren Bände.