Simple comme l'amour #12

Volume 12 of Fusako Kuramochi's Simple comme l'amour, published by Éditions Delcourt in 2012, closes in on the tender, everyday magic that has made this shōjo series so endearing. The cover captures a perfect, breezy moment: a young man pedaling a bicycle while a cheerful young woman rides behind him, arms around him and hair swept back by the wind against a soft purple-blue sky. It's a quietly joyful image that says everything about the series' warmth without needing a single word of drama.