So cute! The whole idea for this manga is very interesting and to be honest I don't think I've ever read a similar Yuri series! The art style is absolutely adorable and I just loved the characters! I'll definitely read other tomes/chapters when they're made available!

Just loved it!

I'd like to send my thanks to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for providing a free pdf version of this manga in exchange for an honest review.

I received this review copy for free from NetGalley and am providing my honest review.

Oh, my, where do I start with this one. Every now and then, I will stumble upon yet another one of those books that makes my blood boil and want to throw it across the room… Unfortunately for me, this book was exactly that. I will not hold back here because I reached my breaking point.

THE REVIEW:

Let me begin with the positive first since it is not going to take long. The cover and the art are the only positive things here, and nothing else.
This is out of the way; I am going straight to the point. Can we please stop sexualising children and promoting paedophilia/paedophilic behaviour?!
I am sick and tired of this agenda being pushed onto us. It is now lurking in books of all ages. Even children are being force-fed this idealisation of having crushes on older, much older people, and so on. As you can read from the summary, this manga had a good premise. I was expecting magic and political issues to be dealt with with lots of action-packed art and some romance/platonic subplot going on.

But this, 10-year-olds being sexualised and showing nude images of children, and kissing adults like proper kissing, so they could “be healed” and their mana restored, is straight up disgusting and disturbing, to say the least. I will never support nor be quiet when I come across this type of agenda, I am a mother myself, and it baffles me how people can enjoy this type of content and view it as something normal. Oh, yes, I am judging you very hard if you do enjoy this, and I do have my opinion made up for you right away, don’t care what the excuse is. Whoever enjoys and supports THIS has some huge issues…

Had the ages of the characters been older, I would not have had any issues with it.

I do not recommend this book at all!

Note to self: read the reviews before getting a book!

This book definitely has its flaws, the character design and how they deal with the whole “kissing” situation that they use to heal with their mana, but to have it done by the teacher towards a student that is like 10 years old is verrryyyy creepy and very off putting, and I don’t think I’m going to continue reading the rest of the series.

This is a very interesting world - though I wish the ages of the character were bumped up - they felt unnecessarily young.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is a very interesting and dark yuri manga. I was surprised how suffocating this is. The story is set in an orphanage, where girls are magically trained for war. Sheena wants the war to end and she's wonderfully sad and out of place. She meets this new girl called Mimi, who's a secret weapon and can do odd stuff it seems. These two become roommates. There's Puella Magi Madoka Magica vibes in the series and the death and violence are interesting as we are talking about girls' love manga. By kissing you can heal others, perhaps not the most original, but how it's presented is. This manga is surely something else as it's a combination of genres that don't usually appear together. It's refreshing and the tones are delicious.

This may not work for many people, since it's not what you'd expect perhaps? For me this was great and the suffocating feelings and the sadness and hollowness are perfect. Mimi is perhaps slightly too childish, but the dark violence with her oddly distant happiness is great. I like this type of manga, since it offers something else. I want something different and that I got.

I received this ARC and was drawn to the beautiful cover. This manga is about orphans, but also possess magical power. The girls go to school to learn magic and become weapons of war. The main character's, Sheena, roommate becomes a casualty of war and she thinks that she will be rooming alone from now on. Then one night, she is out eating rice balls and a girl returning from war covered in blood asks Sheena for a rice ball. Sheena shares her rice ball and the mysterious girl gives her a hug, but is found by school nurse. The mysterious girl is escorted away, and Sheena is left with the scent of blood that she couldn't get rid of. The next day in class, the mysterious girl reappears and turns out she is Sheena's new roommate. The new girl is the infamous Mimi, who is very powerful, even more powerful than some teachers. Mimi is very talkative and outgoing, which is very opposite of her new roomie, Sheena. The class is going to had a mock battle and the girls must eliminate 3 targets, but Sheena get injured badly and thinks she is going to die. Mimi ends up being the one to heal Sheena since her powers are so strong. I'm really excited to read the next volume, even though I don't typically reach for yuri books. I'm really grateful for this opportunity!

Thank you to Netgalley and Kodansha Comics for the opportunity to read and review this manga. This seems like it's going to be one of those premises that's been done several times but with a Yuri twist. It's a magic story like Little Witch Academia and Witch Hat Atelier, even Rwby. Then, there's a roommate component and a slowburn relationship going. I don't know if it's going to be a creature and someone else or what but I am definitely intrigued to see what happens. Because of these points, I have to give this a 4 out of 5 stars

Such a beautiful drawing that conceals a dystopian story.
When I started I didn't really know what I was going to find, but the illustrations are so beautiful that I read it for them, the story is very catching in terms of context and all the tension that is given, it is a combination that works.

We meet a school of magic that trains orphaned children to become soldiers, all this mystery and dystopian touch has left me wanting to read more.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC.This story reminded me of my early years in school and my childhood in general.At one point in my life being the class clown although it wasn't what defined me as a student, it was something that in a way shaped a bit of my personality in class.

Although it wasn't me at all times, we all had that clown classmate for whom we were punished at some point, even though their intention was just to amuse and draw attention to themselves.

I saw many of them reflected in Zella and the way being singled out as the one to blame for an important moment to fail fell on her shoulders.

Was a nice trip back to moments in my childhood this read and one that made me remember things I had already lost from my memory.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC.

This was kind of weird. Based on the cover, I expected to read a normal yuri manga taking place in a normal high school but there was magic involved? and some weird characters. I'm interested in exploring the series further, as there aren't a whole lot of fun yuri manga out there, but it was still weird.

The Manga I want to love you till your dying day by Nachi Aono was a pretty good read. I loved the animations and the plot was pretty good too. I plan to read more of the series in the future.

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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***ARC from NetGalley***
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'.