The art in this >>>
The story in this book was so interesting, the idea behind it drew me in when I first read the blurb and kept me interested in the story and leaves me wanting more.
I love their friendship (romance?) and how cute they are together.

But what drew me in before even reading the blurb was the art style, I saw the cover and loved the drawings, they seemed to reflect the characters so well, the cuteness of the art style matched the story but also made me truly understand how young the characters are, and how much they have gone through for someone their age.
Thank you to NetGalley for the free review copy. All opinions are my own.

I'm so glad to see this FINALLY got translated in English !!!
I'm always up for some fantasy yuri goodness, and this certainly satisfies my constant craving.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is set in a school where orphans are sent to learn magic in order to become child soldiers. It's in this morbid backdrop that a blossoming young love between Sheena and Mimi develops. But an air of mystery surrounds Mimi, with her extraordinary fighting capabilities and the fact that she only just now joined a class. What could she be hiding...?

The artstyle is very pretty, especially the sequences with healing magic, and it contrasts nicely with the dark setting and events. You just know that this relationship will be equal parts cute and angsty !

Though, I did notice a translation error : Mimi is said to be 10, but having read ahead, she's actually 14 (shown here by the fact that they are in class 14, and Sheena says they are the same age). I hope that it will be fixed in the final edition.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have to say I haven’t read much Yuri in the past but recently I’ve started and this is really cute while at the same time having a dystopian and dark vibe as well. I loved the setting of a magic school but where the girls are trained to fight and basically be scarified in these fights. I loved the characters and how the story is shaping up.
The layout, artstyle and panels are all perfect and I will certainly be getting this in physical asap.
As always thank you to Kodansha Comics for the advanced copy to review, my reviews are always honest and freely given.

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This edition is the premiere of the English translation of a story that came out several years ago. While I enjoyed the plot (imagine Hogwarts as a military academy), there were a few times where the story was difficult to follow due to the speech bubbles not appearing by the character I expected them to. It was also difficult to tell when something was said out loud versus interior monologue.

Orphaned girl who are in a magical boot camp learning to fight off evil, this is for sure something new for me to read.

Mimi is a rather interesting character, I can't tell exactly how magical she is but the fact that she's the one everyone seems to rely on must be a hard task to carry around. Sheena seemed to have almost no character build to her.

I really wanted to like this book, it had so much potential, but there was nothing really keeping me hooked and wanting to read more of the series. The artwork was stunning, but the storyline was really lacking. The 'healing' process was a little awkward to read about since it's normally an adult healing the children, and the whole healing by kissing was very off-putting.

As always with manga I don't know where the story is going but I enjoyed this.
I don't have fondness for the slightly perverted nurse but there's usually one in each manga.

Mimi is such a little cutie, she's adorable but don't underestimate her, she's quite powerful. This story has potential but I'm not 100% sure what's going on. The premise seems to be a school for orphans where they teach them magic to fight against monsters in some war and a lot of kissing since it's healing magic. Need to read more to truly understand the story but it's cute.

Yeah this is going to be a no for me. I have many many issues with this book. I think that the premise is promising but all of the execution is deeply problematic.

Essentially you have this magic school that it's an orphanage that trains these kids to go off to war and fight. Sounds cool but the sexualization of them is off the freaking charts and super super icky.

First off these characters are 10 years old. 10. There are scenes of them kissing, experiencing attraction, and nude. What the actual fuck.

Then we have the nurse who I don't know if she is trans, a crossdresser, or a scantily clad pedophile but any of those things in the depiction they are used in are deeply problematic within this book. There is a scene where the nurse is misgendered and someone uses he him for the nurse and everywhere else in this book it's she her. But she is depicted with large breasts, a very skimpy black dress on and a button-down shirt hanging off her shoulders. Then we get into the fact that there's some sort of healing magic that is dealt with by kissing. So you have this horrifically problematic portrayal of a maybe trans person who actively kisses minors. Why was this approved.

Will absolutely not be reading more and 100% do not recommend.

The cover was really nice, warm and caught my eye immediately, but sadly that was all it was. To my shock, the story is about an odd magic school where students are taught for some kind of war. There is a 10-year-old girl who’s apparently the school's legend and one of the strongest, but for some reason has an oddly strange attraction to her new roommate. In their world, kissing is the only way to treat wounded patients, thus the 10-year-old and the school's extremely hot nurse kiss almost everyone. I try to be as objective as possible, but it's too weird. The story is hard to follow and even harder to understand. Sadly, the first one-star of this year.

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0 STARS

Im excited to see where this story will go.

For a first volume, there was just enough of everything to keep me interested. I especially loved the internal monologue of the MC Sheena after the lose of her roommate and watching everything go on around her as if nothing happened.

Thank you to Nachi Aono, Konansha Comics and NetGalley for an ARC of 'I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day 1'.

Walk into the world of an orphanage with sinister intentions.

In this world, there is a boarding school that trains children to be weapons. Drivers of war—ruthless assassins—specialized in magic. Shiina’s roommate just fell at the hands of the enemy; all she has left is her memory and the plush toy she kept in her room. To add insult to injury, there are rumors in school of a new student. And this new student is to be her new roommate—Mimi, the jewel of the school.

Overall thoughts:

I had no idea what to expect from this manga when I picked it up because the cover looked cute. I wasn’t expecting this intense story with rich worldbuilding! I’m invested in the story and very curious to see where things go. What happened to bring forth this war that requires children to fight it? I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

This is a story about finding friends and comfort even in the unlikeliest of places. Because at the end of the day, all you have are each other.

Who is this manga for?

This manga is for fans of action stories rooted in a more slice-of-life approach. Even if you don’t enjoy younger protagonists, the story is told in a way where you can’t notice it. This is a heavy one, but it has plenty of earnest moments. I’d recommend it to yuri fans looking for angst, but wholesome, and action-packed.

See you in the next one!

TRAGIC YURI?????? this was cute! I love plots like this! and the art is so nice! The managka wrote THEO too which I also enjoyed. I'm looking forward to the English publication of this yuri.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha for the eARC!

It was an underdeveloped though intriguing first volume of a series that I might read a second just to see where it's going to be steered.

There's a magical school that creates girl warriors for the war and Sheena is a bit of an anti-war activist who already lost one roommate. Cut to the middle of the night and a mysterious girl who turns out to me an immortal weapon of war, Mimi appears covered in blood and then becomes Sheena's new roommate.

The creepy side of manga edges in: there's a nurse at the school that is odd both for her oversexualized actions and what's so important about her to the school/story. Second, the queerness of Mimi is apparent from the start and the magic is helped for healing through kissing. In some contexts that might be just fine but coupled with the odd nurse it felt more wrong than my misjudging the situation. Maybe I am?

What I did enjoy was that idea of a school for girls in war training and the loss of girls who don't come back. The grieving process was intriguing to me and I would have liked to explore that a little more than where it seems to be going.

This dystopian yuri manga follows Mimi and Sheena in an orphanage that serves as a training ground for child soldiers, where children are turned into deadly weapons for a brutal war. The gorgeous cover immediately caught my eye, and the premise sounded like something I would absolutely love—an intense, high-stakes story about survival and war? Count me in. But unfortunately, I had some major issues with this book.

What Didn’t Sit Well With Me:

1. The age of the characters. The story features a relationship between a 10-year-old and an older preteen/teen (exact age unspecified). Even though Mimi is technically an immortal weapon, she is portrayed, drawn, and acts like a 10-year-old, which made this aspect extremely uncomfortable.

2. The magic system (mana shared via kissing). In theory, this could have been an interesting concept, but considering the age of the characters, it felt deeply inappropriate. The fact that the school nurse also kisses children to heal them only made it worse—especially when kissing is also depicted as a romantic act elsewhere in the story.

3. Sexualization of young girls. There are scenes featuring nudity of underage female characters, which is completely unacceptable.

While the storyline has potential, the execution—particularly the portrayal of underage characters in romantic and inappropriate contexts—made this an uncomfortable read. The dystopian setting and premise could have been compelling, but the way certain themes were handled overshadowed any positives. Unless the characters are aged up to full-grown adults, I cannot recommend this book.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’m not sure if I misunderstood this, but are we to be reading about a developing relationship between a literal 10 year old child and a 16 year old? I understand there is some subtext that this is not an actual child, but just inhabiting the body of one. But we still see this character act like a child, dress like a child…. And actively pursue a romantic relationship with an older teen? Giving it 2 stars because something could have been lost in translation, and the art is cool. But I don’t think I enjoyed this despite a really, really cool premise, I just couldn’t get over the Lolita of it all

I am questioning why the characters had to be children. Had they been older, maybe this would have been okay. However, I can say that the themes in this manga just made me uncomfortable regarding specifically the characters ages.

Death lurks behind a mysterious orphanage where children train to become magical weapons of war. Among them is Sheena, who longs to stop the fighting and end the conflict. On one gruesome night, Sheena meets a strange girl covered in blood, with a smile on her face.

The girl is a great warrior but reckless on the battlefield and nieve in life. For all she's seen and done there are so many things she doesn't know. She seems unfamiliar with how the orphanage works or how they are tested. Her background is mysterious to Sheens and to the reader.

I enjoy Yuri manga very much and this is no exception. The budding relationship is both sweet and a little innocent. The art work is cute but I find most manga is drawn that way.
I'm looking forward to the next installment to see how Sheena and Mimi's relationship grows.

Highly recommended Published 2/18/2025

Thanks to @netgalley and Kodansha Comics for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.

Immediately no. When the description said that love will blossom I was under the impression it would be as they got older! But to my surprise this graphic novel has little girls kissing each other as a healing mechanism and I am appalled. This is an instant dnf @ 49% for me because it’s absolutely sick sorry.

I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed this story, and it was great introduction to characters.
Thank you to Kodansha Comics and NetGalley for providing the opportunity to read and review e-ARC.

I enjoyed the art style and concept of the story. I do think aging up the characters could positively benefit the story. If their ages had not been defined I would have assumed that they were older.