Even Though We’re Adults Vol. 08

Even Though We’re Adults Vol. 08

From the critically acclaimed creator of Wandering Son and Sweet Blue Flowers, a heart-tugging manga about two busy women who think they’ve figured out the whole adulting thing…until they fall in love with each other.

Is it worth making everyone else miserable just so we can be happy? Even as they wrestle with this question, Ayano and Akari decide to move in together. Their new life together sustains Ayano after salacious rumors chased her out of her last teaching job. Meanwhile, Wataru is left hurting in the wake of the divorce and Eri struggles with an adulterous love of her own.

Series Overview: Ayano, an elementary school teacher in her thirties, stops by a bar one day and meets another woman named Akari. Sparks fly as the two chat, and before the night is over, Ayano even goes in for a kiss. Akari is intrigued but confused…especially when she discovers that Ayano has a husband! Both Ayano and Akari are about to find out that love doesn’t get any easier, even as you grow older.

Biographical Notes:

Takako Shimura is a veteran manga creator best known for the critically-acclaimed series Wandering Son and classic yuri series Sweet Blue Flowers. She is widely lauded for her realistic LGBT+ stories.

Title Notes:

Seven Seas continues their legacy of being the top yuri (women loving women) manga publisher in the United States with this new manga series about adult women and a complicated romantic affair.

Takako Shimamura’s Wandering Son is the critically acclaimed manga about transgender elementary students (published in English by Fantagraphics Books); and the yuri manga Sweet Blue Flowers (published in English by Viz Media).

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese, Tokyo Tarareba Girls, and the creator’s other works.

AGE RANGE: This Adult title has crossover appeal with YA audiences (rated Teen 13+), although it may be too adult in tone for young teen readers.

More details on Takako Shimura:

Takako Shimura’s Twitter account

More works by Takako Shimura

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