Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is the first volume of a series, and for maximum enjoyment should be treated as such. You are going to get to the end of the volume and have more questions than answers, but you will want to read on!

Nachi Aono has created an exciting world with intriguing characters. Set at a school that turns children into magic wielding soldiers for a war that we know little about, the book follows peace loving Sheena as she navigates the school, her training, and her feelings for her new roommate, who also happens to be a deadly weapon!

It's always funny when I read a book completely blind, actually enjoying it only to find that lots of people are bombing it lol. It's not even as bad as people are making it out to be.

Kissing magic system isn't anything new or even bad here. Mimi isn't even sexualized. And, the nurse....eh, they could've worked on that better but I'm honestly intrigued about her involvement in the whole mess of things. To be frank, I'm more surprised that this was fantasy whoops.

I absolutely loved this book! The story was so atmospheric and I really loved the romance and would building!

The themes in this manga are dark. This takes place in a world where teenagers are trained to be soldiers.

Making connections are difficult because your classmates can die at any time.

This manga follows Sheena who is bad at fighting. She recently lost her roommate and she gets paired with Mimi. Mimi is an exceptional fighter but her powers come at a cost.

I would be interested to read more in this series.

Thank you NetGalley for the e-Arc and this is my honest option.

I have to be honest I didn't expect much especially as the topic is more for my partner than me and especially in the first volume of mangas mostly not much does happen. However, I was proven wrong. I liked the characters as well as the drawing style very much as well as the story. I am curious if we get to know about the war. Currently all we know is that there is a war and magic is being used, however, we don't know what the war is about and why children/orphans are being used to fight. I'm looking forward to reading the following volumes to see if they maybe even fight the system.

Grim, wicked at times, and sweet at others.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is not at all what I was expecting, and when I finished it, I was left wanting more.

There are seven volumes, so there's still a lot that can happen.

Thank you so much, Kodansha Comics, for the ARC I read on Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this manga in exchange for my honest opinion.
It's a story with good art, but leaves a lot to be desired in terms of narrative. Not very interesting and coherent. I am concerned about the continuity of the story.

An introductory volume that lays down an intriguing premise with hints at a complex world both very alike and very different from what we know today, with promising character study, and an exploration of innocent love and ruthless society. It is in my understanding that the English translation has for some reason aged the characters some years down from the original Japanese story. Interested to see where the story goes next! :)

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this manga in exchange for my honest opinion.

The blurb that drew me into this manga: "There's an orphanage that's actually a boot camp, turning out magical child soldiers for a gruesome war. Yet love finds a way to blossom amid bloodshed, in this dramatic, much-anticipated yuri manga that is spiritual kin to the likes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Otherside Picnic, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury."

That blurb could only have been more accurate if they had also mentioned the mangas "Madoka Magica" and the "Promised Neverland" that I think this story also embodied elements of. I am so, so, SO excited that this Yuri (while not confirmed in this volume) will eventually be happening and that the groundwork for that to happen is clearly being laid so early in the story. I personally can't wait to read more of this series and look forward to the canon wlw rep!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this advanced reader's copy and the opportunity to this early. Review has been posted on Waterstones and Goodreads.

This was a foray out of my comfort zone, since I mostly avoid moe art styles, especially in yuri. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how compelling the worldbuilding and plot are. Manga that feature children as warriors in an SFF dystopia will always be morbidly addicting. I found the side characters more interesting than the main ones in this volume, but I imagine that may change as the narrative advances! I was also genuinely glad to see that it’s not really very service-oriented (of course, you expect and then do find some gothic elements!), even though the budding romance is a bit fast paced, depending on how you look at it. Solid 4.5⭐️!

Thank you to NetGalley and Kodansha for providing an e-ARC!

I was really interested in starting this mange series. Because the premise sounds amazing, right? A magical school from which the students fight evil. Could be done well. Plus it's a yuri one, which just adds to my intrique. However, the characters are way too young to be presented the way they are - in such a sexual way. It's a first volume and I'm used to some things starting to make sense in mangas as the story progresses in subsequent volumes, but here I have just too many question marks. I will have to seriously consider whether I will continue it or not as I'm interested in the story but the sexualization of children is too much for me.

A lovely story with beautiful art accompanying it. I loved the characters and their dynamics and sincerity.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day is Nachi Aono's first commissioned serialized work. It is set in a school for orphaned children with magic, who are trained to become living weapons for their nation. Fourteen-year-old Sheena loses her roommate to battle; soon afterward, she encounters Mimi, a girl with powerful magic who takes a particular shine to her. As Sheena gets to know Mimi, it becomes clear that there's more to the school than she realized, even as she begins to question the system in which she lives.

Aono is experienced with creating yuri (GL) comics, and has explored various types of relationships in a darkly cute shoujo art style. This is my first time reading her work and am curious how this compares to previous stories. At first, it felt a little too questionably tropey, with "healing magic" kisses, "they were roommates," and the potential for all major characters to pair up (in GL couples, of course!) in a possibly Class S manner, but the ending of Volume 1 has enough mystery and foreshadowing that I am intrigued regarding what will happen next. If you like fast-paced relationships, dark academia, and witch girls, you may enjoy this.

(A note of caution, however: This series is probably better suited to readers accustomed to the variance specifically within the Japanese yuri genre (ex. the school nurse character); folks expecting a more Western style of GL story may not like this series as much.)

Readers interested in this series may also enjoy: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011), Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997-1999), The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu, and the Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik.

This was an okay but not really outstanding entry in the "dark side of magical girls" subgenre. The story read as though the girls were much older than they're described, which would be interesting if the book was doing something with the idea that trauma makes you grow up too quickly and in weird ways, but it's not. I could also live without the implicitly transphobic trope of the slutty cross-dressing school nurse. The art was nice, though.

Now this is really... interesting? Honestly, I'm not really sure about what to think of it, right now. The artstyle is adorable and the characters are sweet. The story so far - hard to tell. It's kind of brutal, rising kids for war, making them feel like "oh, my classmate died? Yet another one? Okay, let's go on." And then this tiny sweet girl just killing like picking flowers. But okay, it's interesting and it's manga, so let's not ask XD Could become really exciting and I hope more chapters will be uploaded.

This could've been an interesting story, but the sexualization of 10 year old characters is an automatic no for me. It's not just the part about how they can heal each other through kissing, but one of the 10 year old characters comes back from battle naked at one point. Easily, they could've made the characters adult-aged without changing much of the plot or world building.

Thank you for NetGalley and the publisher for the free e-copy in exchange for my honest review.

I think this was a good look into a new world and the characters did draw me in. I have been personally out of the world of manga for awhile, and this definitely reminded me why I love this type of story telling. This story and characters has me intrigued, I am looking forward to volume 2 to see what more we get to learn!

No. Just No. This was a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT.. it literally made no sense I can’t even with this one.
I didn’t even finish it

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Unfortunately, I have the same complaint I've seen some reviewers have - the age of the protagonists and the pure sexualization used didn't sit right with me. Making it that you have to sloppily make out with someone to heal them, and the main characters are 14 years old...it makes an interesting premise uncomfortable to stomach. If these characters were aged up, I likely would've rated this higher - but as it stands, I likely will not go back to this series when the next volume is released.