Beautiful story, nice art, just a great experience in every aspect. I'd love to read more and will definitely recommend this to manga readers.

I thought this story was absolutely adorable. It has a beautiful (imo) slow burn romance with lgbtqia+ inclusion, which I adored.

There is also a character, Kanon, who has a disability and I loved that there was the disability inclusion in a respectful manner in the story. The way Saki was able to accept Kanon for who she was, was absolutely beautiful to me. As she seemed to be the only one who could at first, because Kanon does eventually become accepted by her peers with Saki’s help. And Kanon in turn opened up Saki’s heart.

This story was just endearing and I definitely want to continue the volumes and one day own them for my own manga shelves.

It's genuinely the sweetest and most adorable slow-burn, friends-to-lover manga I've read in a while.
The fact that the pace is moving gently along so that their friendship can blossom and still hint at a romance is so refreshing.
Plus, I loved the fact that the main character called out her own ableism and is working on calling others out, too. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people aren't broken.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me this eARC to review.

I adored this volume with my entire being. This focuses on two girls starting high school- one is deaf and loves reading and the other plays piano and is not deaf. This is only volume one and it is a nice steady pace where it shows the start of their friendship and how they become friends with some other girls as well. While there is nothing super sapphic is in this volume, it is definitely hinted at and I am sure we will see this romance devolp as the volumes go on. I liked both of the main characters, loved the art and loved the story. I will be reading more!

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Don't mind me - just the sound of absolutely fangirling over this amazing volume. I am totally calm and not obsessed with this. Nope. Not at all.

The moon on a rainy night is the story of Kanon a hard hearing girl, who came to believe through hard experiences, that self isolation is the best possible to defense to avoid getting hurt.

Enter Saki. A cheerful, piano player, with absolutely no interest in boyfriends, unlike the rest of her girl - friends.


Through their short cut first encounter, along with sharing class together, the reader gets to witness their friendship blooming, along with Saki's crush on her beautiful friend, who hides more than meets the eye. We also get to see Kanons defenses falling allowing reluctantly for people to get to know her.

I loved this. There is no other word, I just did. The way Kanon was written was excellent, both in terms of her actual disability along with the way this affected her and her relationship with others. Sakis lesbianism was also well done, and the relationship between them is such a delicious slow burn. I cannot wait to read more of the series!

This is super sweet and lovely. There are issues both the characters are dealing with, although Kanon's are more notable now, I think we will eventually dive into Saki's problems. Already at the end I love seeing how she learned piano in order to see her teacher and now she has to wonder if her interest in sign language is only because of Kanon. Also wonder if she herself knows, because it seems like her mom already has an idea that Saki is romantically interested in girls, but Saki hasn't really mentioned it.

I had read a fan translation of this one before (though I actually don’t think I finished it? I’m not sure) but one of my favorite things about manga that’s published in English is, believe it or not, the translation notes at the back of the volume. In cases like this, where deafness is treated differently culturally in Japan verses in the US (where the translation is being released, which is why the direct comparisons are being made), the amount of research that goes into it on the part of the translator is awesome!

Now for the story itself… I love the use of sign language and signs as a metaphor (there’s one really great panel about marriage, the sign for which is “gendered” in Japanese sign language, and Saki changes the male half to show marriage between two women). Though I find Saki to be kind of an enigma; we’re not sure why she loves piano (both her mom and piano tutor expected her to quit in high school, and even she seems a little unsure about it). I can’t remember if we get that answer later or not, but maybe we do.