Have you ever felt that some moments in the story you read should last longer or better could last forever?

That's what I felt at some point reading this manga. I might be exaggerated here, but the bittersweet story will hit you hard if you crave for good romance. The reason why I felt that way is that our main character Shiki successfully bring out my sympathy. He had to face constant suffering and dangers, but only got so little happy and romantic moments. But even if it's short, it's very sweet that I find myself re-read it few times.

This is a short story about drama, romance with supernatural being involved. Our Shiki here always have some bad circumstances even before more strange phenomena happen in his city. His meeting with the princess is strange enough to make me asking and wondering, how could that even happen?? as the plot progressed a lot of things started to made sense and self explained. The story is really good, even if you feel confused at first, you will be hooked eventually. There are some great twists near the end that I could never guessed before.

The supernatural powers here are interesting, though they're not original in concepts. There are some good fighting scenes that I want to see those to be animated. But after finishing the manga in one sit, I'm afraid that the anime will disappoint me, and I'm satisfied already with how the manga going. This is an old manga that I wish I've known earlier, I'm familiar with some type moon works like fate series, but this one really is hidden treasure (or maybe I'm just negligence in the past). So in the end, I would recommend this manga greatly, for romance lover out there.