The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The title “Perfect World” is written in English across the centre in lowercase pink lettering. In a pink bubble upper centre of the cover, the title is written again in white Japanese characters. The background is white with faint pink bubbles around it. On the left side of the cover, art of a young woman sat on a brown chair. She is wearing a short pink polka dot dress, pink flat slip on shoes and has long pink hair. On the right side of the cover, art of a young man in a black wheelchair. He has medium length black hair, a white t-shirt, a white overshirt, a necklace, grey pants and black sneaker shoes with white laces. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Medical Content
• Medical Trauma
• Injury and Injury Detail
• Car Accident

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Summary:

26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana reunites with her first crush from high school, Itsuki Ayukawa, at a get-together between an architecture firm and the interior design company she works at. He sends her heart aflutter, until she realizes he’s now disabled, and in a wheelchair. At first she feels she couldn’t date a guy in a wheelchair, but then her feelings begin to change …

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Notes:

This is the first volume in the Perfect World series. The series is completed and has 12 volumes, the last of which was published in 2021. The final volume was published in English in 2022.

There was a Japanese live action film adaptation of this series released in 2018.

A ten episode Japanese live action television series based on this manga was broadcast in 2019.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

This series is very highly rated, and apparently the 12th volume is a lovely, if not slightly jumbled, ending to the whole thing.

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