Love on Horizon 1 Volume 1 1
Writer and artist: Maggis Summer
Publisher: Kodansha (Printing and numbers.
translate: Leo Macden
Emergency: Nicole Roderick
edit: Tiff Joshu TJ FERENTINI
Cover design: Abigail Blackman
Publishing date: January 7, 2025
grade: Older teenagers
type: Comics (JPN), boy’s love, romance, life film
lovefrom Kodansha Ascended physical and digital shelves earlier this month. The series of this 2 volume is Maggis SummerIt was the first commercial BL of the artist. The publisher compares this series to Furuya Nagisa, such as My Moore Sky or telephone numberSo let’s see what to see love Volume 1 offer Its reader!
Yu get Plasma until he has no memory and Najib’s memory at night Take He went home because they were neighbors next door. They have become a repeated theme in their university experience. The two are members of the Folk Music Club. After drinking every night, others will leave Najib with a smile of apology. They hardly knew that Nagi secretly looked forward to the intimate moment with his senior people.
Who would not expect someone like him to spend time? YU is good, very handsome, very flattering and A social butterfly that can adapt to any environment he participated in, put everyone under his spell. The warm benevolent is not a Naji (NAGI) who strikes on the rainy days, stretching him like an arrow. Is it too? However, this kind of intimacy on the body does not reduce Najib’s anxiety, especially when he keeps hearing your history of dating.
I want to point out how beautiful the cover design of the English version. I like how Abigail Blackman (Abigail Blackman) retains the panel shared by our leaders, which effectively emphasizes the side of the story, but it has changed the literal translation of the title in the green title of neon light. May love tomorrowWith a local version. I also appreciate the space of the middle title and have a beautiful font. This font imitates the original dynamic and handwritten atmosphere. Is that little sunshine details rising on the horizon? Absolutely cute.
Japanese cover
English cover
Both warm, quiet air signature loveEssence Clean lines, neat backgrounds, character design, round characteristics and large emotional eyes show a relaxed atmosphere. As a person who regards comics as a visual medium, the most important thing is that the visual narrative is a special place for me to give me a special place. Although I can’t say that the priority in the entire volume is the same, there are some moments, especially in the second half of the year, there are zero speaking words or internal monologue pages. Machi Yamashita chose to convey feelings by arranging and body language, and successfully conveyed the feeling.
The plot will feel quite BL fans and Yamashita are familiar with Clearly Will not re -invented the wheels. Nagi (Nagi) is a dynamic excessive thinking, which is in sharp contrast to the carefree air YU. Although he first suspected his “admiration” of Yu, Nagi felt that he was a romantic love and desire for intimateness. Compared with NAGI, the same awareness of YU is the same, but fortunately, this series does not spend a lot of time and energy to reach there. Instead, the remaining chapters are used to explore the initial stage of its relationship.
In most cases, love It is simple in terms of theme and execution. However, I was confused about the “habit” of sleeping next to Nagi beside YU. The opening of the series was Nagi secretly slipped into the yu next to the bed, using the drunk state of young people, he did not remember the night before.
Although this is not described at a dangerous tone, Nagi does this matter at the cost of YU’s well -being, artists have never returned to this case, although this should be a repeated thing. It finally came into contact in the initial page and then swept under the carpet. My criticism is not about the moral meaning of Nagi’s behavior, but about its existence in the story, if it has no purpose. It leads to a problem, why not contain a detail in the entire work? More importantly, why do you introduce the role of Nagi, who is the timid and straightforward side, what does it do like this? I did not understand this, but considering the entire volume, this is a small part of the first chapter.
If I put on hold this drawing point without cohesion and integration to the remaining volumes, it is the first volume love This is a sweet, warm, and down -to -earth story. Two young people gather together, disgusting love, allowing you to experience the butterflies they feel in the stomach. Although this volume is independent, I am glad that they have more stories. In romantic types, we can never establish enough relationships!
Therefore, Machi Yamashita’s first work will really As far as the soft and unreasonable air that exudes, Furuya Nagisa’s fans appealed. If the character is in Shikke’s design and fashion sense Pink heart sauce Work for you, and then you will find out loveThe direction of art is also pleasant. I recommend this title to readers who are looking for comfortable and charming reading! I look forward to the next volume, unfortunately, the book has not yet released the date of release. I also want to see Machi Yamashita more in -depth research or exploring interpersonal relationships in future works!
The title image is from the X (previous Twitter) account of Machi Yamashita.
LOVE on Horizo N Volume 1 can be departed from Kodansha through numbers and printing.
