Manga Review: The Water Dragon's Bride, Volume 6, by Rei Toma

Rating (Out of 5): ~4

Publisher: Shojo Beat (VIZ Media)

Release Date: July 2018

Volumes: 9+

Spoilers?: Yes.

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Volume: 1. 5. 7.

Goodreads Synopsis:

A modern-day girl gets whisked away to a strange land where she is sacrificed to a water dragon god!

In the blink of an eye, a modern-day girl named Asahi is whisked away from her warm and happy home and stranded in a strange and mysterious world where she meets a water dragon god!

Asahi continues to be trapped between power-hungry humans and exposed to ill will. When she becomes gravely injured, will the water dragon god be able to save her? How will these two change during this time of distress?

Review:

Everyone's abuse toward Asahi finally hits the Water Dragon God, and he breaks. He goes to drastic measures, because he wants her to stop being in pain. He decides that he needs to protect her at all costs, and so he takes her away from them all. And when that doesn't work, he takes their memories of him. And still, when that doesn't work, he sends her home.

Seeing Asahi back in the modern world is what I've been waiting for this whole time. It's bittersweet, though. Because while she's with her family again—though they have no idea what happened to her, and she's started reading all these books, and now she has a little brother—now she doesn't have the Water Dragon God or Subaru or even Tsukihiko. Her parents want her there, and she's forming a relationship with her new little brother, but she also misses it there.

This series just gets to me. It's subtle and quiet in its intensity, but so heartbreaking at times, and it just hits me so deep. I need to find out what happens next.