The only spoiler I can honestly give to the reader who wants to approach Haru to Midori is: Put yourself at ease this is not the usual How to Raise Your Wife story. This is the only spoiler. Recommended to me by an Anilist user Haru to Midori shows a different side to the orphanraising trope involving a more intimate mental approach and an undefined label which gives freshness. Haruko lost her mother at 14 years of age. Her mother Tsumugu was a wild dog who escaped from the family at the end of middle school and became pregnant at 17 while raising a child alone. At the funeral a lady Midori a childhood friend of Harukos mother appears despite not having seen Tsugumu for at least 15 years. What follows is a beautiful pastelpainted emotional story of the two of them living together while trying to cope with their internal burden. What I liked was the lack of overdramatization. In general authors often rely on high drama or long emotional speeches to keep the reader interested. Here everything is subtle mostly internal to the characters who little by little start to open up to each other implementing their life and complementing their voids. Haruko on one hand seems to be a stronghold almost cynical at points denying the existence of her mother for the sake of pragmatism. But she realizes that she is just a child and her mother lives in her still. Midori trapped in a cage of childhood memories helps Haruko in the beginning as she is the image of her beloved one but slowly realizes how unfair and cruel would be to help a good child just because there is a sense of guilt or a sense of void for someone she had lost. As the two grow acquainted and caring they try to figure out what they are to each other. Friends? Parent and Daughter? Or simply as it should be in many things in the world there is no necessity to label as they simply care about each other. The downside of the manga is sometimes there is a bit of confusion in who is who meaning that the characters and panels entangle from the present to the memories oft and sometimes the reader is a bit confused if Midori is remembering or seeing the present. This may have been indeed a narrative choice to paint the inner feelings but the character design did not help it successfully as Midori looks the same even 15 years prior this is a minus to the art style personally. Sadly the final part of the manga looks hyperrushed as the authors were trying to open some interesting new narrative exploration there is a subplot with a frenemy of Haruko that goes nowhere and I assume was due to a sudden decision to axe the manga from the magazine it was published. Considering this is a debut I can only praise Haru to Midori for the simple but effective emotional structure and if you like me have lost a dear friend whom you cared about definitely it hits home on some pages.