I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day

Her roommate dies, and the teacher announces it like reading off attendance. Class moves on. That's the world Sheena Totsuki lives in — an orphanage that doesn't raise children so much as produce soldiers for a war that's been grinding on so long nobody remembers what peace looks like. Kids get shipped to the front lines and don't come back, and everyone around Sheena has just accepted that as normal. She hasn't. She's the one person in this place who still feels the weight of every empty bed, every name that stops being called. And somewhere in the middle of all that death, she falls in love. This is a girls love story set against one of the bleakest backdrops you could imagine — child soldiers, endless war, institutional numbness — and from what the manga sets up, the romance isn't there to soften things. It makes everything sharper. Caring about someone in a place designed to make you stop caring is its own kind of rebellion. If you liked The Promised Neverland's oppressive institution vibes or Gunslinger Girl's quiet tragedy of kids shaped into weapons, this hits similar notes but threads a love story through the center of it. Studio ROLL2 is adapting the manga for a 2026 TV series, and the fantasy and school elements suggest there's more to this world than just the battlefield. The title tells you exactly what you're signing up for — love with an expiration date.