Title: 本のムシ Hon no Mushi
Creator: 小虎 Shoko
Books: 2 volumes, Jan '21 - May '22, Dragon Comics Age, Kadokawa
This is a love story between two women who work in publishing, with a magical realist premise: mysterious lizard-esque "bugs" have started appearing and feeding on books, sometimes learning to speak the text they've eaten.
It's a story with books as its theme, both the creation of them and what people get out of them. One of its clearest takeaways is that while a story is an expression of what's on the creator's mind, that's not the same as having their actual thoughts. This manga itself certainly could be a creator giving form to various feelings they had regarding fiction, but it's the views of the characters and the way they change that's being depicted, not the mangaka.
Spoilers
In 2022, several of the manga I had been reading ended with the protagonist either not getting together with her love interest or splitting up, and I kind of think it would have made sense for this to be another one. The way An fell in love with Ichigo and how that changed her, bringing her to life, was convincing and entertaining. Ichigo's behavior towards An was also written interestingly, but it pointedly wasn't romantic until the last few scenes of the last chapter. There's no strong reason why Ichigo shouldn't decide to give dating An a chance, but does feel like it happened for the sake of the happy ending without the story having had the time to lead up to it.There's a few other elements that felt hurried, such as when An asked her coworker whether he knew where a specific author lived and coincidentally the coworker lived next door. Finding that author had been set up as though it were a key challenge An and Ichigo were facing in the middle of the story. Since An works at a publisher it wouldn't have been hard to let her find out the information without it seeming like blind luck, so it stands out as an odd choice for a pivotal plot point to be so overtly contrived.