メタモルフォーゼの縁側 [BL Metamorphosis / Metamorphose no Engawa] #1

The cover of this 2018 Kadokawa volume from artist 鶴谷香央理 (Kaori Tsurutani) immediately sets a gentle, unhurried tone: a young person sits cross-legged on a wooden engawa, absorbed in a manga from a stack of books beside them, while an elderly woman in a blue dress reclines nearby with her own reading and a glass of iced tea, potted plants and a pair of kicked-off sneakers scattered about the garden below. The watercolor linework is quietly beautiful, capturing an afternoon of shared stillness between two people separated by decades but united by the page. A lovely start to what promises to be a warmly human series about the connections reading can forge across generations.