Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

With You and the Rain was a cute and simple story. It feels similar to Yotsuba&! (though with more mature humor), and I'd generally recommend it to fans of adult contemporary slice-of-life stories. Nikaido's art is stunning, and its appeal immediately caught my eye when I heard about this title's announcement.

This is currently a digital-only release, but it would be nice to see it get a physical release sometime too.

Art and Story: Ko Nikaido
Translation: Nate Derr
Lettering: Jan Lan Ivan Concepcion
Editing: Jesika Brooks

I received a copy of this manga through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Not a lot of action but you don’t actually need it to make this an utterly cute and sweet and wholesome manga! 😊😊 The stray “dog” is such a funny character! 😆

With You and the Rain

ARC provided by NetGalley

If it looks like a dog and acts like a dog and insists it's a dog, it's...a dog? Probably? She adopted it anyway, and her life with this "dog" will never be boring!

My initial thought upon reading that description and looking at this book’s cover was, ‘What???’. That animal on the cover was definitely not a dog, I had no idea at first what it was but it was absolutely adorable so I just decided, why not and requested it.

Honestly, this was such a cute manga. I don’t know what has been up lately but I have been finding the cutest manga recently and I don’t want it to stop. Let’s say that the dog is a dog. It insists as such by writing it down so who am I to disagree. From that, I imagine you can get the humor of this book. It really is just this wholesome story of this super nice lady and this adorable ‘dog’. There is not a lot here but not everything has to be chocked full of intensity to be enjoyable. Overall so cute would definitely recommend it.

Protagonist meets a Tanuki and mistakes it as a dog... a very talented dog that can write and communicate with you. So starts a bunch of adventures with the dog. This is a quick and easy read. There isn't much depth but its still a very cute story to follow. I'm excited to see where this manga goes next.