This starts pretty boringly: a Japanese university student goes to Australia for one exchange year and falls in love with a Japanese born/Australia raised man who is as much annoying as she is the prototypical naive. Both are quite irritating in their behavior and feels like a love story written for teenagers.
However, as the stories (this book is made of different stories that all have an object in common) a more interesting collage starts to appear, one that is more interesting, more charming and more relatable. Little by little we get to know different characters, situations, moments, related to the object. And the epilogue gives the last strokes to put a nice last touch to what started as a really rough sketch.
The best: that ending
The worst: Blue and Red are the kind of young people that I hated when I was a exchange student
Alternatives: hmmm, quite original (yes, nowadays nothing is original); Monica Rosehill's love stories are quite charming
6.5/10
(Japanese; original)