The art and story are cute and I'm intrigued by the world and the magic. I'm slightly concerned by the fact that she has the body (at least) of a ten year old and we've already seen her kissing and not wearing clothing. We need context or she needs to grow up. I feel like I need more information.

One thing about me- i will always, always gravitate towards pretty art style. But it wasn’t just the art, the title of the book also drew me in and I was in for one of the biggest surprises ever.

Girls having magical power and falling in love? Sign me up asap!! This magical world reeled me in from page one and it only continued to stroke my curiosity with each new chapter. I will now be reading ever installing in this manga has to offer.

Something about this just felt a little... off especially with the nurse character and I feel like I didn't get any real plot, back story or character development. No thanks.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the opportunity to read I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day 1 by Nachi Aono.
This dark yuri manga took me by surprise with how twisted and intense its world is. Sheena is a cautious and anxious warrior. While, Mimi is cheerful and carefree, fearlessly diving into battle. When Sheena is injured one day, Mimi takes it upon herself to heal her, sparking the beginning of their deepening bond. I'm excited to see how their relationship evolves as they face the challenges of both love and war.

The art style is gorgeous but the plot execution was meh. I would think the first volume to at least touch on the magic system, but it doesn't. There's many tropes I don't buy into or just hate.

Why are 10-17 year olds fighting in this generalized, overarching magical war? I understand they're in an orphanage and training... so why are some actively being sent to the battle field?

I hate that the school nurse is a "cross-dressing pervert" excited to take the first kiss of an underage girl in the name of healing? Free us from this trope of cross-dressers/trans people being some pervert.
Why is a kiss specifically on the lips the only method of healing? I would think an adult in magical medical profession would have more options than the children under their care. (At least Recovery Girl in MHA only had to peck her patients anywhere and didn't get a perverted excitement at the thought of healing them.)

I don't think I even have to go into detail about my disappointment in the depiction of nude minors and them kissing in lewd manners.

I will not be continuing this series, there's just too much that didn't sit well with me and the plot wasn't done well enough to keep me interested.

I did quite enjoy this first installment of the series and can’t wait for more. There was a lot learned about the world and characters in such a short piece. I do wish that it were longer because I want more information on this world and characters. Mimi has to be my favorite, she is a very bubbly, outgoing character but I feel there is more to her than just this and I crave to know what it is.

Probably closer to a 1.5 stars.

I really, really wanted to love this. I think the art style is absolutely stunning, and those coloured pages at the beginning truly blew me away. The premise sounds fantastic, and I'm always interested in reading more sapphic content, but I really, really wish there was a mention about their ages in the description. Mimi and Sheena being 10 years old really didn't sit right with me, especially because of the overt sexual overtones, between them, but also between the teachers.

This idea that kids can be "healed" by a kiss from the nurse -- and I mean a real kiss, not just a peck or something similar to Recovery Girl from My Hero Academia, if you're familiar with that -- as well as the way the kisses between Mimi and Sheena are portrayed (with panting and spit), plus the panels of Mimi naked, with only her hair keeping her somewhat modest...I don't know. Maybe I'm being too puritanical about it, but something about it really just rubbed me the wrong way.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Surprisingly dark world-building, especially for a Yuri series. Wish there was more in this volume that leaned towards the darker action and wider world narrative. As it stands, felt kind of passive stuck in Sheena's perspective. The nurse and Mimi seem fascinating but we mostly get telling not showing of how bonkers this world is, I imagine to keep it grounded in the Yuri factor. It's a shame, could've been something actually dynamic like the "Lullaby of the Dawn" series.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day focuses on the story of young orphan magical girls who will be trained and sent to war.

The comparison to Witch from Mercury really hyped this up for me, but sadly I didn't enjoy much in this manga. While I think the art style is great and there are some interesting ideas here, the story overall just doesn't come to fruition. It feels more like a collection of scenes than a coherent narrative. The worldbuilding is also very bare bones at this point, though this could be elaborated upon in future volumes.

However my biggest gripe with this manga is the questionable content. While this can be standard fare for manga, there were some things in I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day that really didn't jive with me. From the multitude of semi-explicit nude panels of a 10 year old to the suggestion of a grown-up needing to kiss children to heal them, these things just didn't sit right with me.

I loved the concept and the art style, but this made me really uncomfortable. Orphaned warrior mages fighting in a magical war? Yes, please. The romantic tension and 'healing magic' between children? Not so much. :(

What sold me in the beginning was the beautiful art style. I think it's very pretty and made me reminisce ablut the mangas i read as a child. the story is also interesting.
however, i am not interested in reading about children of 10 years old falling in love and seeing them, so i won't continue this series.

This is a really cool story and I can't wait to read more as it continues. I'm really excited to learn more about mimi.

Sapphic orphan mages being trained for war? The promise caught my attention immediately but the set up in this first volume was a bit weak. We have a mix of a girl school feel, exchanging mana via kissing (convenient), but what was really interesting was Sheena our MC trying to unpack her trauma of losing her roommate to the battlefield while the world around her goes on as if her roommate’s lift had not truly mattered. Then all of a sudden we are introduced to Mimi, who promises much darker storylines to come, even with the budding attraction between her and Sheena. However I was honestly much more interested in the already established romantic relationship between Ari and Seiran. I wanted to see more of that but based on the amount we saw in volume one, I think we can reasonably hope to see more of them in upcoming volumes.

I’m intrigued, but not enough to continue right away. I might return to this series once more volumes are out.

Of note, there is one potentially trans character and there is some transphobic language used against her, but she is a solid character on her own though unfortunately is given the title “pervert teacher” so this could have been removed. Pervert teacher is tired and done, we don’t need it anymore.

*I received an eARC from Kodansha Comics & NetGalley. All opinions are my own*

A huge thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and Nachi Aono for providing me with an ARC of I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day 1 in exchange for my honest review.

Whilst I appreciated the art style, I found it challenging to engage with the story due to its central focus on a romantic narrative involving children. This subject matter felt inappropriate to me and detracted significantly from my overall enjoyment of the work. Although I can acknowledge the skill and effort put into the artwork, the themes explored in the story were not to my taste and ultimately made this book a difficult read for me.

I love the art style of this manga. it is so beautiful.

I also really enjoyed the concept of this type of magical girl. I think it's an interesting twist on the genre.

That being said, I think I'm too old to really enjoy this. the characters are far too young. I know a high schoolers who enjoy manga would absolutely enjoy this.

I thought the art of I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day vol. 1 was beautiful, though I wished we were taught a little bit more about the world Sheena and Mimi inhabit. For know, all we know is that they use magic to fight in a war, with this volume mostly focusing on their school lessons and conflict between the main characters. The little bit we saw of them going into war seemed really interested and I'd like to see more!

I was a little confused on their ages. I think they said Mimi was ten but I thought Sheena was older? But then, I also remember her saying they were around the same age. I feel like it would have made more sense to make them both older, like the secondary couple. Also, the nurse character was a little off; while I loved her design, I think it's weird that she seems to enjoy kissing underage girls (that's how they utilize healing magic, through kisses). I know a flirtatious, older school nurse is a popular trope in manga but it didn't really fit the dark setting.

The art style of this manga was really cute and the concept was very interesting to me. I think this was a really compelling start to a series and made me excited to read the next volume. I thought some of the concepts were a bit generic, but overall I liked it.

[Thanks to Netgalley and Kodansha for an ARC of this manga in exchange for an unbiased review.]

It’s been a bit since we’ve had a darker magical girl manga come out, or at least since I’ve read one. And now this one has yuri baked into it. You’d think it would be a match made in heaven, but a couple of poor decisions make this a hard recommend.

I’m put to mind of the equally awkward <i>Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka</i>, which conflated ‘grim and gritty’ with ‘torture porn and unlikable’. This is less on the action, and more interesting, but still makes significant missteps.

Before we get there, the good bits. I like the contrast between our leads. Sheena is moody and has no love for the vague war that she and her classmates are being trained for (yes, it’s magical girls as combat weapons time again).

Mimi, on the other hand, is a cheerful and chipper, yet also happens to be a murder machine hiding secrets behind her smile. The two of them have an interesting dynamic - Sheena doesn’t like Mimi a whole lot at first, but she won’t be rude about it, which is a nice touch.

Sheena is either hopeless at magic or a pacifist, or both, as well, but she takes care of Mimi when she joins their class and she treats her normally. That’s something that Mimi doesn’t typically experience given her celebrity status and it’s not hard to see why she gets attached.

The quiet school life versus the ongoing horrors of war is also a strong contrast too. When we open, Sheena’s roommate has just been killed and she seems to be the only one who cares. Everybody else takes this sort of tragedy in stride, including Mimi, who is introduced dripping in blood that isn’t actually hers.

There’s a lot to like in the way this presents itself and, even with minimal action, the character drama is more than enough to hold the reader’s attention. Sheena’s friends, Seiran and Ari, who are polar opposites, yet hiding their deep love for one another from everybody, are especially excellent and I may read more of this just for them (even if I wouldn’t give long odds to both of them surviving).

When we get into trouble comes from two places. Firstly, Mimi is ten. Although the story does manage to account for this and she’s almost certainly older than that, it does seem real weird that she’s kissing Sheena this volume. The yuri here is better when it’s less overt.

And that kissing thing conveniently turns out to be a way for people to ‘share mana’, which is a narrative turn that I don’t think serves any good purpose except one instance towards the end involving a missing arm.

Otherwise it seems to be an excuse for the girls to kiss, although we see that some of them are really into sharing mana. It also makes the whole thing with the school nurse, who happens to be a trans character (or at least a cross-dresser) very unfortunate.

It’s bad enough to have said person kissing underage girls, big massive yikes to every aspect of that, but mixing in transphobic behaviour on top of it is really awful. Nothing about that character is well done and it’s a super bummer.

It’s very readable, I really devoured this, but recommending it has serious caveats. Not for everybody. I’m going to give it a middling rating of 2.5 stars while noting that I’ll probably read more, but it’s got some serious issues.

Thank you to Kodansha and NetGalley for this arc!

It’s magical girl school yuri with a twist of horror. Lots of WLW representation here…with a sinister kick. None of the characters or storyline really grabbed me so I most likely won’t check out volume 2.

Beautiful artwork, and I like the main character. Absolutely hated that the trans woman (or drag queen? Not clear) is depicted as a pedophile who is an adult kissing children to heal them.