yay the book has arrived woohoo~

time to make a comparison which is better: the western version or the eastern adaptation~

Shimarin : I'm inclined to say the manga adaptation is better because moe is included while the book has no pictures of the ladies

to be serious, the manga adaptation is practically 1:1, nothing's changed from the stories and nothing was taken out that I could see.
The book just has more of the introspection of the author, and also some stories that were too spicy for the censors of the Soviet Union that she included in this new edition of the book.

The manga definitely helps if you'd rather not imagine the actual horrors of what they went through, if anything

Oof. Not looking forward to reaching this chapter on the book itself

" Drawn by Koume Keito, artist of Spice and Wolf manga"
Oh... I don't remember finishing watching that anime. Wolf girl waifu economics, iirc

you suddenly had my attention. hmm...i might try that one out then. XD

it's definitely a great manga series. The thing that really endears me to it is that it's not just the stories of the veterans, but also the story of the author's journey to get all these ladies to open up and tell her their stories that they've hidden for 40 years