What if? What if? — Tokyo Tarareba Girls Volume 1 by Akiko Higashimura

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"I spent all my time wondering 'what if,' then one day I woke up and I was 33." She's not that bad-looking, but before she knew it, Rinko was thirty-something and single. She wants to be married by the time the Tokyo Olympics roll around in six years, but...that might be easier said than done! The new series by Akiko Higashimura erupts with sharp opinions on girls and tons of laughs!!

Tokyo Tarareba Girls is from the same creator as Princess Jellyfish, and follows Rinko, a 33 year old writer for web series, as she and her two best friends resolve to get married before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Not that they have partners in mind at all – they're just going find a husband somewhere. From there, it spins out to show all of the ways that these three women struggle with dating despite their otherwise successful lives, and show the way that as Rinko's personal and professional lives spin out of control, she clings even tighter to her goal of getting married.

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