君と綴るうたかた [Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata] #5

Volume 5 of Yuama's Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata arrives from Ichijinsha with a quietly striking cover: two girls are drawn close together, one in a sailor-style school uniform gazing outward with cool, pale eyes, while the other — dark-haired, wrapped in a dark coat — leans in with a contemplative, almost melancholy expression. The soft, muted palette and the subtitle's English whisper, "The summer you were there," lend the whole image a bittersweet, wistful atmosphere that feels very much at home in 2023's manga landscape for romantic and emotional storytelling.