Thank you NetGalley and Viz Media for the digital ARC of “Pink Candy Kiss” by Ami Uozumi!

I just finished reading “Pink Candy Kiss” and it’s difficult to not just write an incoherent mess about how cute and bittersweet this first volume was and how much I want to read the next one. Takara is a great protagonist, and you really sympathize with her gay panic over realizing she has feelings for her childhood friend, a married friend! Ema is so cute and sweet, and you can totally understand why Taka would fall for her. The plot writing for this first volume was good, the romance is developing at a slow simmer but it gives you just enough small moments to satisfy lovers of the sapphic YEARN. So much romance manga is set during high school, and I get it, first love is very sweet, but as an adult reader it’s harder to relate to a teen. “Pink Candy Kiss” is just as sweet, but you have adult protagonists looking back on that first love with the added experience of age and other relationships. It’s *chef kiss*, very good. The art is also very pretty, I love the little added sparkle in some of the panels. The paneling also flows well as you read and adds to the emotion of different scenes. I feel like this manga would be a great starter for an adult romance manga reader wanting to try out the Yuri genre, or a Yuri reader who’s looking for a good Josei Yuri manga.