I personally found this manga completely unmemorable. Typical manga / anime style of some dramatic long staring or sweeping away out of the scene. Art was nice.

This is probably the beginning of a cute story, I just ultimately didn't give a shit and have no interest in continuing. I was annoyed that there was never any issues with regards to lip reading. Other reviews exclaim how cute this is and love that it's a slice of life.

This book had a bit of a rocky start for me, it was hard for me to wrap my head around this concept because the virtual children are not real, and throughout the story so many people are treating them as real. There were sometimes no real world consequences for actions taken virtually, but then there were other times when there were harsh real world consequences?? And I didn't feel that this was actually realistic in any way of parenting if the participants can just log out? And are these virtual children being shown at every moment on the reality TV show? Are the babies ever "in stasis"? I just had a lot of questions about the literal logistics of how this show and experience was supposed to work.

As many other people say, I agree that at the beginning there are quite a lot of characters and it feels a little overwhelming, but I thought the author did a decent job reminding me which couple we were shifting to based on their secret, reminding you that there was a secret and still allowing for the mysteries to unfold over the course of the book. I also enjoyed the audiobook experience, there were multiple narrators as well as small musical flourishes and fun ad reads as well as the inclusion of accents and a variety of tones when reading the social media inclusions. I also really appreciated how much content there was that was sourced from fake social media about the show, it really emphasized how much of this book was exploring the theme of presentation, and what was real and what was not real. The writing style is written in such a way that there are constant cliffhangers and while this does make for a propulsive read, to some extent it also is just ratcheting the tension up and up and up without resolution until the dramatic End.

There were a few reveals that surprised me, I enjoyed having lots of theories throughout but was pleasantly surprised multiple times as well. I will say I felt like the ending was a twist but not one that I really understood? I didn't follow how being on the show was relevant to the revealing of the big bad evil stuff that was going on, nor did I follow how the show was supposed to reveal and force consequences either...?

Seems to be plenty of people who really really liked this one, and that's great, though I do agree with one review that I saw that said that this is kind of a scary book because it is almost believable and set in our own near future world. I also agree with a review that I saw that this was low on atmosphere and setting and that the story could have used better character development-- I agree with this because it didn't really set me up to be "rooting for" or liking anybody.