Renai Anagram is a simple yet powerful story about a womans life roundabouts and its greatest merit is the firm characterization of the protagonist Miyamoto Satsuki and how she and the people around her wistfully wander through lifes complex web of motivations. As the narrative anachronically reflects upon her defining lifes moments Satsukis personality and morals are steadily established. What could be considered nefarious acts by the characters in any other manga is poignantly justified here granting the story an authentic mature feeling. Reality is most of the times not pleasant people are selfish things go wrong and sometimes we find ourselves miserable. Anagram earnestly acknowledges that but doesnt let it solemn dictate the story. I would never abandon myself. I would go on living. As these strong words manifest within her even though shes going through her lowest inspiringly hopeful feelings are evoked. Anagram constantly throw juxtaposed situations like that and acts diligently about them theres a impeccably constructed gray area in the dramatic presentation A fine balance between struggle happiness dismay and hope what creates a much more reasonable frame about life when describing it so soberly. To look back and reperceive: to remember past experiences and reflect about them it bring to characters realizations that confront their own shortcomings of perception considerations that challenges their own attitudes towards others and themselves. Yet they cannot always make the right decision. In fact the manga realizes that there is no such thing as the right choice because to acknowledge that is to dwell and blame our past selves instead of learning from it. The star of this concept is Ryuu Satsukis childhood friend whose left side of body is paralyzed his optimistic nature marked her for a lifetime. Despite his short presence he becomes an incredibly iconic figure inside the story his cracked smiles and singleeyed tears were nothing but full of touching candid sincerity. An emotionally manipulative factor for sure but a relief that I couldnt welcome less. The art is consistently good and exceptionally expressive but like most josei works tend to do it mostly relies on simple backgrounds and visual presentation. In parts where the characters interact or make up the environment the background is decently and enough detailed. However in most cases the background is pure white appropriate to highlight the characters discourse and facial expressions which are the truly fine aspects of Tendous Kirin artistic work. Renai Anagram is an underrated gem even within the niche josei bibliography. Although the disjointed way of storytelling may be strange and sudden at first Im sure it can amaze those with the taste for more bittersweet downtoearth manga.