Reading Hibari no Asa (ひばりの朝) by Yamashita Tomoko was hard. Not for any defects in the storytelling or anything artistic-related, no. It was the topic covered. Anger... I think anger was the main feeling I had while reading it. Every single character apart from Hibari was horrifying (particularly adults, and more specifically... men!). Like literally horrifying. And the most horrifying part was the fact that they're not exaggerated monsters or deliberate villains, they're humans... with rotten souls. My admiration to the author for not shying away from the topic.

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