#not steamy
Manga: Éclair Orange: A Girls’ Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart
Love is complicated in all its forms, but the feelings of girls especially so…Return again to tales from maidens’ hearts with this fifth installment of Éclair! Continue the journey of young and arduous love with authors like Canno (Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl), Yuriko Hara (Cocoon Entwined), and Kabocha (Kemono Friends á la carte).
Title: Éclair Orange: A Girls’ Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart
Editor: ASCII Media Works
Publisher: Yen Press
Format: Digital/Print
Steam Level: Not Steamy
Status: Complete
Book:https://www.rightstufanime.com/Eclair-Orange-Manga
Recommended
This is book 5 in this anthology series. So far, (2021) there are only 5 books.
There was some controversy about later collections where stories were pulled from the English version for content. I know one of those stories was an age gap love story between an elementary school kid and a college student. I love age gap stories and enjoy some pretty taboo stories, but even that is a bit much for me. I’m glad they took it out. In this volume one series continue by Canno.
This volume also has a “Parental Advisory Warning Explicit Content” label and it actually makes sense this time. There are illusions to sex and one entry you see boobs head on and another time just from the side.
Last one in the series (printed in 2020 and I haven’t seen anything yet about another volume) and this one is just as good as the others. There’s a good mix of unrequited love and unhappy endings and happy endings in this one, more so than the others. It also has sci-fi and adults and high school students and age gaps. One story, Song of a Heat Haze by Kumiko Takeba, was the saddest I’ve read in this series and actually cried. It was so good and so sad. The last story, Karen-chan Master by Auri Hirao, was super weird and an odd one to end the series on. The one before it would have been better I think since it had the feel of the all books as a whole. Overall, this anthology series is great and worth picking up every book. As with anything like this, there are stories I loved, others that tore my heart out, and others that I was meh about but none that I hated. It’s a good collection.
Favorite story: 52-Hertz Whale by Yuriko Hara
