Reviews for Hana to Uso to Makoto

Romance is the way to made story, no matter what shape of the character. Here the romance is not the love of lover, but something between more than friend and less than lover, because each of them just had both of them to depend on. As the story is about a couple of girl, that sadly one of them becoming zombie because certain disease. While the story progress the MC trying her best to fulfill the promise, while many hurdles coming to their way, yet after all, everything could be resolved in a good way. For manga,even though it is quite short, it had impact that the plot needed to be, from the how they becoming friend to how she is finally passed away.

Quite enjoyable story.

Story and enjoyment 7/10: The story is good for a short tragedy, but my problem lies with it telling all the details so late even though many of them would have made us bond with the story much earlier. Like for a 21 chapters long work you can't reveal the relation of the main characters at the last 4 chapters! You can't talk about what her illness is so late on. It kills the tragedy if you phrase it like "I'm living with a corpse".. for me that felt like a comedy especially with how Makoto looked. I honestly only got hit with feels in thelast 6 or 5 chapters.

Conclusion:

If this was a 40+ chapters read maybe the mysterious and thrilling methods of the mangaka would have been a big hit, but for 21 extremely short chapters it made it feel like something is missing throughout the read.

Is it a must read? not at all.

Is it a good short read? Absolutely.

great premise, poor execution is how i'd put it. the worldbuilding sort of failed. The characters' pasts were vague and disjointed and got minimal, exposition-heavy development far too late in the story. Without other major characters to play with, or a well-explored past to draw from, it was difficult to draw a frame of reference to Makoto's and Hana's present condition. It felt like the author started on this with a very basic idea and pulled a story together as they went. It's rare for me to say that something was 'too short', but i think that's really it. There was just no detail here. Nothing waswell-elaborated. These characters didn't get a whole lot of development, and it was hard for me to feel more than a vague resignation. Honestly it felt like there wasn't a whole lot that got explored here beyond the basic theme of coming to terms with the death of a loved one.

Anyway, this could have been a lot deeper and a lot better than it was if, well, someone else had written it. I came away feeling a bit disappointed with the lot of it. The art and character designs were not memorable, and the ending the whole thing was building up to failed to deliver any special emotional payload for me. I came away feeling underwhelmed.

There's nothing offensive in here, but there's nothing really impressive in here either. It felt very uninspired.

it's short enough to not be a total waste of time. I wish i could give this higher praise, because i was excited to check it out.