>>11443I loved this manga so much. I used to read it while going through a very rough time, and being able to chillax with cute boys was one of the most healing things I'd ever read.
In hindsight, it was a bit like what K-ON must be to tired Salarymen. The stakes were never high, the showa-era art style was very good, and charming, melding the best of 1970's June magazines with the cutest that 80's shoujo had to offer. The boys were all charming and likable, and kept doing dumb stuff that got them into trouble, which was very very adorable. Greenwood was this magical place, set far way in a happier time, where trivial things grew large, angst was had over lesser things, and my own dire irl circumstances just plain didn't exist.
It was the very antithesis to the stuff popular with fujos at the time (Yami no Matsuei, Enzai), and I'm a bit sad that it's not as well-remembered as Free or Hetalia, it's a really lovely series that works best in small bites at the end of a long day.
(Also the lack of doujinshi is a darn shame…)