This manga first crossed my feed a few weeks ago, when I saw a social media post about it. Over on Bookwalker, I saw that I could read the first chapter for free, and so I did! At which point, this series came in and out of conversations on multiple platforms and in different contexts over and over for the next few weeks. So, when I saw Volume 1 at Kinokuniya, in our after-Yen Press Yuri Cafe visit, I grabbed it to see what the rest was like. Then, last week, Seven Seas announce they had licensed it as A Couple Drifting in the Wind.
Tayutau Futari, Volume 1 is a chance meeting that presages changes in two lives. First-year college student Kaori is huddling by herself on a bench, wishing she had some friends when a captivating beauty sits down, unzips her coverall to reveal a tattoo of a stylized centipede winding around her torso. Kaori asks if she can take a photograph, to which the answer is yes. This sets off a series of unexpected meetings and circumstances between her and the other woman.
The story moves quickly, almost too quickly for a collected volume. It will make more sense if you slow down, read a chapter, then come back to it in a few days or a week. That will give the story the time it needs to develop behind the scenes. Reading one chapter after another makes the events seem an almost ridiculously swift set of coincidences. Regardless, those coincidences gather two completely different women to set them on a path together in a tale that is charming and gentle.
There is very little drama here, also very little of what we might think of as Yuri, except for Kaori being very aware of Momo’s attractiveness. There’s no time for romance or deep intimacy, but as a story of two strangers who become friends (and…maybe more as he story goes on? I have no idea, honestly) Tayutau Futari is a pleasant read.
Ratings:
Art – 8
Story – 7
Characters- 8
Service – The whole point is the tattoo
Yuri – 1
Overall – 7.5
A Couple Drifting in the Wind, Volume 1 will be headed our way in English from Seven Seas in December 2026
