Here’s my take after reading 18 chapters of the time-stopping shoujo love of Fragtime by Sato.
Fragtime is the story of the shy and reserved Misuzu Moritani and her ability to stop a “fragment” of time once per day. This is the only time that she can be true to herself fulfill her fantasies and escape problematic confrontations. Everything had changed when Haruka Murakami the model student of her class noticed Misuzu’s time stopping in the most uncanny way.
The story for me didn’t have too much impact although I gave it a pretty good score because the story is light and true to the feelings of the characters.
The art is clean and light and matches the zest of the story. Misuzu and Haruka’s characters may look like two sides of the same coin, but after reading it till the end reveals that they aren’t which makes it interesting and touching until the end.
I believe that one way or another, as a reader, you can relate to these two lovers.
And with that said, I would give fragtime 8 grains of hourglass sand out of 10.
