{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-22T21:18:52.987Z","story":{"id":"r_f1a553e42c594a60ad175f0a","slug":"kei-ichikawa-s-a-long-short-love-story-arrives-in-english-print","url":"https://yomimono.id/kei-ichikawa-s-a-long-short-love-story-arrives-in-english-print","headline":"Kei Ichikawa's A Long & Short Love Story Arrives in English Print","summary":"Yen Press released the first English physical edition of Kei Ichikawa's boys' love manga A Long & Short Love Story. The volume collects twenty short chapters that follow childhood friends and neighbors Ibuki and Kippei through high school and beyond. The story begins when Ibuki kisses Kippei, a moment that shifts their friendship into something tentative and new. The chapters are brief vignettes, each preceded by a full-page color illustration. Seasonal markers such as fireworks, the school cultural festival, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and New Year track the passage of time. Katelyn Smith translated the work and Aila Nagamine handled lettering. The original project ran in the magazine Ciel and was planned as a one-year series but stretched to three. Ichikawa's earlier series Stray Bullet Baby has been available digitally from Kodansha since 2018, but this is her first print release in English. The volume uses high-quality paper and spot color inside the black-and-white panels to emphasize small details like winter-chilled noses or a splash of blue sky. The last chapter closes the relationship arc without melodrama, and an illustrated afterword explains the unusual format.","why_it_matters":"The release gives English readers their first physical edition of a Kei Ichikawa title, a creator whose best-known BL series Blue Sky Complex has no current English print availability.","published_at":"2026-05-16T14:16:55.000Z","source_count":2,"sources":["Anime UK News","Yatta-Tachi"],"citations":[{"source":"Anime UK News","title":"A Long & Short Love Story Review • Anime UK News","url":"https://animeuknews.net/2026/05/a-long-short-love-story-review/"},{"source":"Yatta-Tachi","title":"A Long & Short Love Story Manga Review (Spoiler-Free)","url":"https://yattatachi.com/a-long-short-love-story-manga-review"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["A Long & Short Love Story"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"review","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false}}}