Holiday Review: TOKYO TARAREBA GIRLS

Still, no josei title this year made a bigger splash than this one, the latest title from Princess Jellyfish creator Akiko Higashimura.  This is another cheat (as this was another previously digital-only title), but there was no way I was NOT going to talk about this one.

TOKYO TARAREBA GIRLS (Tokyo Tarareba Musume), by Akiko Higashimura.  First published in 2014, and first published in North America in 2018.

PLOT:

Rinko is an up-and-coming TV writer, but the combination of getting dumped by her long-time boyfriend and the prospect of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has her and her best friends fearful that they'll be single forever and stuck in dead-end jobs.  Rinko's anxieties are starting to get the best of her, and they're not helped along by a hot young actor who keeps bringing Rinko down.  What if she should take a chance on him?  What if she should try to mend things with her ex?  What if? What if?