I’m playing clean-up in my files this week and this book, which is the final volume of the series, had been put aside for several reasons. The main one was that a friend of mine was really into it and planned on reviewing it for us on Okazu, but she died of COVID in 2021 […]
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A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 5
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 5 by Makoto Hagino addresses an important conundrum for young people. Their lives are not theirs to decide until they are…and then the entirety of their trajectories as adults are dumped into their laps all at once. What do you want to be? Where do to want to […]
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 4
In my review of Nettaigyo ha Yuki ni Kogareru, Volume 4 (熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる ), I lightly commented that “this series has moved slowly, and almost haphazardly, like the tropical fish of the title, lazily moving between plot points.” But Konatsu chooses another form of symbolism completely, befuddling both Koyuki and us, in A Tropical Fish Yearns […]
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 3
In a recent conversation about Makoto Hagino’s A Tropical Fish Years for Snow, the participants referred to the primary relationship as “implied.” I suggested that it be “considering.” ^_^ In A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 3, we learn some key facts, despite the glacier-slow pace. Koyuki is, has always been, help up as […]
Yuri Manga: A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 2 (English)
In Volume 1, Konatsu moves to a small seaside town where she meets Koyuki, a sempai who is a member of the aquarium club. Konatsu wants to be friends with Koyuki, but she’s have a surprisingly difficult time communicating with the other girl. In Makoto Hagino’s A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 2, (The […]
