A charming, comforting debut from Karepango creator Emily Her, pairing sweet kawaii comics with gentle emotional support—plus wellness resources and two pages of stickers.

This cozy, flip-anywhere collection offers gentle support for the feelings you don’t always have words for—through tender comics, validating messages, and sweet, surprising humor.

The charmingly imperfect characters of Karepango—like Yobi, Snarp, and Kit—invite readers to find joy and beauty in the mess of daily life, to love what we have, and to prioritize human connection.

• Tender comics paired with affirming, gentle messages
• Two pages of reusable Karepango character stickers
• Wellness resources from NAMI
• Perfect for fans of Sanrio and Miffy

Flip this book open whenever you need it to discover relatable comics for hard-to-express feelings.

This is a digital ARC I got via NetGalley and to discourage piracy, the image quality isn’t as good as the final version, and I believe the fonts don’t match what the final product will be, either. Just a heads up.

This was really cute and I found a lot of it relatable. The first part of the book focuses on the characters Emu created, and my two favorites are Pan, who is crying a lot trying to make it through the hard times, and Snarp, who is awkward.

This way you can get an extra sense of each panel with what the characters represent and what the comic is saying.

My favorite two describe “ideas you cannot articulate” and “the loneliness of losing social connections.” I identify with both. Even though I’m a writer and am supposed to be able to articulate my ideas on the page, sometimes I still struggle with it! Also, I am not a very social person, but I can’t go my entire life without people. Over the decades I’ve cut people out of my life, but I’ve kept the good ones. Only now, everyone is busy and I don’t hear from most of my friends anymore.

Then my last favorite appeals to the romantic in me, which is the “freedom of someone loving the real you.” I experience this with my family, but I’ve never experience it with a romantic partner. Someday I would love to feel this.

As you can see, I was easily able to emotionally connect to this book and think about my life and my own feelings. The cute art and straightforward personalities really allow you to reflect on yourself through the presentation of the characters and their situations.

I found this book adorable and really liked how it appealed to my emotions. I recommend this to readers who want to quickly reconnect to themselves and put words to feelings they can’t always name, as the title says.