Spring Has Come

High school girls are the chrysalises who hide their female form under their school uniforms and wait for the time to hatch They are sensitive fragile and the cruellest of creatures The protagonist Mizuki is a thirdyear student at an allgirls school She secretly has feelings for her classmate Terumi When Terumis boyfriend breaks up with her Mizuki gently hugs her and comforts her as she cries Mizukis keen observation of the pseudoromance between girls combined with the natural acting of the girls in the cast makes for a very realistic picture book of high school girl life The softly beautiful scenes of the two girls walking through a residential area in midsummer wearing yukata at a fair and on a Christmas night are as impressive as a painting