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havent read a vn that oozed style like this since seams and senses! the characters are so expressive with their faces and movements and the color and texture of each scene is used perfectly to set the mood as zoey remembers it. fun how it felt like reading a comic book too with the nvl font and the inset panels (god that sex scene) and the halftone patterning. i really struck a chord with  zoeys character in this feeling static and disconnected like the fuzzy texture that covers bits of her memories but also static and never changing while others move on in their lives without her in the most hollow tragic and entirely banal way. her character also makes for an interesting psyche to present the story through i loved the way her memory fragments are presented nonlinearly  (emotionally it made the ending hit harder too) and her thoughts switching between overthought and spacing out and her instinctive running away from any uncomfortable situation or conflict in her childhood or "present" and her mental model of cherrys character misconceived from desperation and envy (while cherry is also doing the exact same thing with her) its good its good thank you for this