A Sign of Affection Volume 1 A Sign of Affection Volume 1
Book 1 - A Sign of Affection

A Sign of Affection Volume 1

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Publisher Description

Yuki is a college student who’s into friends and fashion. She’s also deaf. A chance meeting on a train leads to a serious crush… but can it grow into something more? A sweet and touching manga romance from the creator of Shortcake Cake!


Yuki, who’s always been deaf, is used to communicating with sign language and her phone. But she’s not used to English, so when a tourist from overseas asks for directions, she nearly panics…until a handsome stranger steps in to help. His name is Itsuomi, and it turns out he’s a friend of a friend. A charismatic globetrotter, Itsuomi speaks three languages, but he’s never had a deaf friend. The two feel drawn to each other and plan a date on a romantic winter’s night…but Yuki’s friend is afraid that she might be setting herself up to get hurt. Could this be something real? Or will these feelings melt away with the snow?


From the acclaimed author of Shortcake Cake, the hit shojo series with more than a million copies in print, this new work is full of real-life details about Japanese sign language and living without hearing, and it's sure to please fans of romantic stories like A Silent Voice, Kimi ni Todoke, and Love in Focus!

GENRE
Comics & Graphic Novels
RELEASED
2020
March 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Kodansha USA Publishing
SELLER
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
SIZE
164.8
MB

Customer Reviews

zeno ben ,

So cute

The characters are so adorable and wholesome.

Glassblower 45 ,

Sensational First Volume

“A Sign of Affection,” Volume 1, is a sensationally crafted first installment of a new shojo manga series. I honestly read more action/fantasy shounen and josei titles than romance—let alone shojo romance—as a woman. However, “A Sign of Affection,” Volume 1, catches my eyes and my heart with its all encompassing storytelling and its relationship content. The relationship dynamics check all the right boxes for me.

Readers who appreciate and love the “show, don’t tell” mark of mature storytelling will love how “A Sign of Affection” takes advantage of commonalities of whole communication between Sign Language and the shojo manga genre. Both require attention to more than just spoke/sign shape dialogue in order to “hear” everything being communicated. The mangaka duo state how these commonalities were an inspiration—and portraying the sign language, a challenge—they wanted to tackle in an interview published in this volume.

You can eat a delicious dish in the first bite. Then start to take your time to notice the individual ingredients you taste, techniques used on those ingredients, and how they all come together in your eating experience. Volume 1 of A Sign of Affection is that kind of dish, that kind of story. The pacing of the story and the relationship progression feels just right even with multiple re-reads.

Everything set up in Volume 1 gets expanded upon in future volumes, both for our main couple’s relationship journey and potential other couples (and couple challenges). And to address the common shojo story pattern: no, the wait for girlfriend-boyfriend status will not drag on for a long time like other popular shojo anime (and their manga originals). The pacing and timing for that—while in later volumes of “A Sign of Affection”—is quite nice too.

eddachan ,

Lovely

Such a beautiful story can’t wait for more chapters

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