Return from Death: I Kicked the Bucket and Now I’m Back at Square One With a Girlfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me, Vol. 2

Return from Death: I Kicked the Bucket and Now I’m Back at Square One With a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me #2

by Eiko Mutsuhana, Yuki Nekozuki (Illustrator), Alyssa Niioka (Translator)

Now It’s Vincent’s Turn To Fight The Loop!

After witnessing Oriana’s death and losing consciousness himself, Vincent wakes up to find himself back in his four-year-old body. He does everything he possibly can to prepare for putting an end to this vicious death loop before reentering the magic academy, but this time, it’s Oriana who doesn’t remember him! He’s going to have to start back at square one as friends and hope he can make her fall for him this time. But does this shy boy have what it takes to put the moves on the girl who won his heart and bring a happy end to this third loop?!

Genres: Light Novel, Romance, Fantasy, Manga

326 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 31, 2023

About the author

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Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

After eagerly waiting for volume 2 to arrive, I found myself slightly disappointed.

While I still enjoyed reading this book, seeing another 'reset', this time it is Vincent who remembers and not Oriana. But to add to this, Oriana appears to be not interested in him, with Vincent doing what he can, not only to keep her safe but to be part of her life/circle again, but this proves to be difficult due to her disinterest in him.

Just like the previous book, we are left hanging, and while I found this second book not as good as the first, I am still interested in reading the next volume... whenever that comes.

[Tamara · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is way longer that it needs to be, and written like its describing a manga, panel by panel. All the emotions/reactions described are way OTT (eg. people screaming and falling on their knees for slightest of reasons), and very often make no sense considering the context, which is my personal pet peeve. But I still want to read the last installation and finish the story. It's going to be a long wait 😅

[tasiahydrangea · Rating 5 out of 5]

this second volume really made me appreciate the first one. i really enjoyed this volume because it feels like everything we’ve learned about these characters has been turned on its head and it’s so interesting seeing them in a new light! the first volume already explored oriana experiencing new sides to her friends but this one just really nails it! although we already had oriana appreciating her previous lives’ vincent, seeing vincent have a newfound appreciation for everything oriana struggled through alone is so heartwarming and breaking.
i think i do prefer a lot of the dynamics in the first volume, i still thoroughly loved this volume and am heartbroken to see absolutely no news for the last installment in this trilogy. hoping it gets translated and published in english soon or i might just have to pick up my japanese studies!
such an interesting concept that has been grasped to its full potential thus far and i can only hope the ending lives up to my expectations!

[Marta · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars

read the japanese edition of this but it's not listed on goodreads. thought the title was bad in japanese, its even more cringy in english yikes 💀

didnt quite reach the heights of book 1 for me although the early chapters were pretty interesting. the later ones start being more romcom filler-y but Oriana and Vincent are still the cutest so I didn't mind too much.

really wish Yana had stayed mysterious tho, I didn't like her reveal here at all. it made her seem petty and I don't think i can enjoy her character after that rip

otherwise excited to see how the end unfolds, especially with miguel sending those heavy hints 👀

[Freyja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing much really happened and the ending is so underwhelming.... Hopefully it would pay out on the next final volume.

[Waffley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ahh the pacing seems both too quick and too slow at the same time! The overall story itself regarding the mystery of their possible murder and time regression is going by so slowly, and nothing seemed to move forward as it mainly focused on Vincent and Oriana's relationship as he tries to get closer to her in this lifetime. While I loved meeting her group of friends and seeing how Vincent handles being the pursuer, I feel that the 1st book had more going on compared to the 2nd. And now that I think about it, it feels like half the book was all filler hahah... So this book, while full of cute moments, seem a bit boring and unexciting compared to the first. Still excited for the next one, although I do hope story progresses more. 

[Tyas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably my disappointment stemmed from my expectation that we'd see more sleuthing - this time by Vincent - to know exactly why our protags died (for the second time!) in the first volume. Instead I got lengthy bantering by horny, cringey teen characters, many of them I have no idea why I should care about. At least kudos for writing them sound... realistic. (I find it harder to sympathise with the version of Oriana here though.)
I hope this is just a boring middle part to an intriguing beginning and a satisfying ending.

[Mariana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me han encantado las diferencias que presentan los personajes, y también que podamos conocer mejor a Vincent y a los otros personajes, ya que en el anterior Oriana acaparó la atención.
Aunque por momentos me exasperó la "ceguera" de ella al malinterpretar el comportamiento de Vincent, disfruté de cada una de sus escenas juntos y espero con ansias la continuación.

[Paula Vera · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved the first volume and I reaally love the second volume! Please keep up with the amazing work. I can not wait to buy the manga!

[Mikayla Lin · Rating 3 out of 5]

less interesting than the first one (I wanted to see more angst from Vincent) and a terrible ending that wasn’t anything (not even a cliffhanger, literally just felt like a random chapters end)

[Maricar (BookOaths) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I kinda wish that the build-up shown here was also done for volume 1 (as that was more angsty).

[Beyza · Rating 5 out of 5]

İlk kitaptan daha da iyiydi. Sürünen ve aşık erkek karakterleri okumayı çok seviyorum ne diyebilirim ki.

[Cell · Rating 3 out of 5]

大部分在跑卡卡的愛情線，危機感呢？
劇情停在很奇怪的地方

英文版與日文版的插畫師不同，而英文版第一、第二集的插畫師又不同，之間是怎麼洽談的啊
英文版距前一集已過了2年，明明只差一集就完結，這下麻煩了
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本集的英文書名暴前一集雷，不要太仔細看

[Shaghayegh · Rating 3 out of 5]

It could have been better. Too slow for my pace and their misunderstanding killed me T^T I love both main characters so I contined but it took me a long time to pick the rest up.

[Jonathan Chow · Rating 3 out of 5]

I kinda want to give the rating 2 star for this volume but i decided to just make it 2.5
I've been waiting for this volume after reading the volume 1. The story is interesting, the character is nice i think, overall i really enjoyed the vol 1.
But volume 2 is just boring, with our Heroine lost her memories now we don't have the fun and outgoing personality of her anymore.
The MC Vincent is too pasive, i can understand that as a Duke's son he can't do anything freely but for entire volume he almost didn't make a progress at all, make us realize that how amazing is the Heroine in volume 1, aggresively chasing him without any hestiation.
Then this volume ended without anything interesting, there's no excitement like the end of V1 to speculate what's gonna happen in V2. V2 ended with just a normal day without anything interesting to expect in the next volume
And another unsatisfactory is how different the illustration from the V1. I'm sorry for the artist because this is kinda rude but i really don't like V2 illustration. They became smaller and too cute, totally different feel from V1.