REVIEW: ‘Our Aimless Nights’ is a Quiet but Mighty Coming-of-Age Manga Series

I’m so grateful to the folks at Azuki, my favorite manga app for sending along this exclusive! I was happy to receive the first eleven chapters of their newest acquisition on the app: Koumori’s Our Aimless Nights. Sold as a coming-of-age story, here’s mostly non-spoilery first impressions by way of a short review!

Our Aimless Nights Words and Art by:  Koumori  Translation: Jan Mitsuko Cash  Lettering: Barri Shrager Translation  Editing: Sarah Burch Cover  Design: Glen Isip  Quality Assurance: D.S. Jay  Brand Manager: Evan Minto  Production Manager: Cynthia Kim Let me be insufferable with my microphone from off a rooftop: I LOVE COMING-OF-AGE STORIES. Azuki has promised us that through their latest work: Our Aimless Nights, that we have a new entry in the coming-of-age genre with these two teenagers who form an unlikely connection with each other. This new manga series features the very cheerful, well-known. and well-liked high school girl Chika and the much more reserved, quiet, and introverted Waya. As they are as different as the sun and the moon, they find that spending time together outside the convenience store where Waya works, a special time that the two start to look forward to. The first few chapters of Our Aimless Nights help set up not just how Chika and Waya meet but how they first start to interact with each other inside and out of school. Chika is going through a new transition in her family, and she announces it to her f…