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隣のお姉さんが好き [Tonari no Onee-san ga Suki] #1
隣のお姉さんが好き 1
「好きな子がめがねを忘れた」
「ペーパーブレイバー」の
藤近小梅が贈る話題の
年の差ラブコメディ!
映画が大好きな美人で明るい心愛さんは、
お隣に住む3つ年上のお姉さん!!
絶賛片想い中の僕は、おススメ映画を
教えてもらうことを口実に、お姉さんと
毎週水曜日2人で会う約束をして…!?
もっと知りたい。気持ちを伝えたい。
なのに想いはなかなか届かなくて…!?!?
足りないのは年齢?身長?経験?それとも…??
「切なすぎる!」「応援したい!」と話題殺到の
碧く切ない不均衡ラブコメディ!!
「ペーパーブレイバー」の
藤近小梅が贈る話題の
年の差ラブコメディ!
映画が大好きな美人で明るい心愛さんは、
お隣に住む3つ年上のお姉さん!!
絶賛片想い中の僕は、おススメ映画を
教えてもらうことを口実に、お姉さんと
毎週水曜日2人で会う約束をして…!?
もっと知りたい。気持ちを伝えたい。
なのに想いはなかなか届かなくて…!?!?
足りないのは年齢?身長?経験?それとも…??
「切なすぎる!」「応援したい!」と話題殺到の
碧く切ない不均衡ラブコメディ!!
- GenresManga
160 pages, Paperback
Published May 19, 2022
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March 18, 2025
While I have had my battles with The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, it ultimately made for some pretty cute reading that managed to be mostly okay while stretching its premise so hard that it snapped, knotted together, then snapped again.
Right out of the gate, this story is in the same vein, but the premise is much more tenable and the characters more interesting. You can definitely tell that it’s from the same mangaka, but I like this so much more.
However, it is not a sure bet for fans of the first series. This is adolescent cringe at its absolute best and worst and it tackles an age gap in an interesting and believable way (at least for now).
Tasuku is in love with his next door neighbour, the hardcore film fan, Shia. So far, so traditional, except Shia is three years older and in high school, while Tasuku is still in junior high. And at that age, while he’s 13, Tasuku might as well be twenty years her junior.
And that’s already an awkward age for him. And her. And now he’s trying to start a relationship with a girl who is really just being nice and watching movies with him as a friend who’s started getting into them.
Cringe ensues. Tasuku has at least worked hard to try and be fit and attractive, which has amusingly helped him draw in every girl he doesn’t want and also set up Tom Holland as his rival (the humour in this is of a subtle flavour I really liked). But he’s got no idea what Shia is actually like.
What’s pretty clear from the outset is that Shia doesn’t like herself a whole heck of a lot. There are lots of hints that she’s got zero self-esteem, even if Tasuku is trying desperately to understand her. She’s also got the big dreams that any teenager might have and wants to realize them.
This gets so many details right about this sort of period in life that it’s almost painfully real some times. I have been in the space of an immature twerp trying to impress an older girl and it went about as well as this did.
Tasuku’s fairly useless older brother and sister are also fun, although they’re more fairly useless in his eyes than in reality. The betrayal he feels when Shia trusts his brother with something rather than him, plus the way they talk about Tasuku, shows the difference in maturity.
That doesn’t stop Tasuku though, which is what I think will put some people off the story. He has precisely no sense of when to not say something and he’s too direct and apologetic by half (again, this rings way too close to home). He’s pursuing Shia hard.
Shia is not much of anything except an object of desire who loves movies, but there are obviously far more layers that have yet to be explored there. The story often gives her full page spreads that seem far more often representative of Tasuku’s affectionate gaze than anything more fanservice-y (well, minus the bike scene). A nice touch.
The series knows its movies too; bringing in classics like Good Will Hunting and Catch Me If You Can. Tasuku being as young as he is doesn’t quite get everything he can from such fare, but he tries. It gives them something to bond over, but also hammers home how young he is.
(There’s a weird joke made by Shia about western films having a lot of sex, which is funny but hardly reflective of the utterly sterile nature of modern cinema.)
I don’t often see aspects of myself reflected in manga, but this one has a ton of them and it resonated really well with me. This is a fraught friendship that is grappling with one person feeling one way, somebody else feeling another, and trying to maintain it regardless (well, sometimes). Frustrations burst forth on both sides and believably so.
While the eventual outcome is likely the obvious coupling, there are lots of possible branching pathways. They’re both interesting characters who have good and bad points and are often doing dumb stuff because they haven’t learned any better.
That was my excuse anyway.
4.5 stars - I’m tempted to give this an even higher rating; it is so, so much more interesting than its predecessor ever got. However, I do acknowledge that it will ring really sour for some people who aren’t into the awkwardness of it all and The Dangers in My Heart it is not. It surprised me in the best way possible though.
Right out of the gate, this story is in the same vein, but the premise is much more tenable and the characters more interesting. You can definitely tell that it’s from the same mangaka, but I like this so much more.
However, it is not a sure bet for fans of the first series. This is adolescent cringe at its absolute best and worst and it tackles an age gap in an interesting and believable way (at least for now).
Tasuku is in love with his next door neighbour, the hardcore film fan, Shia. So far, so traditional, except Shia is three years older and in high school, while Tasuku is still in junior high. And at that age, while he’s 13, Tasuku might as well be twenty years her junior.
And that’s already an awkward age for him. And her. And now he’s trying to start a relationship with a girl who is really just being nice and watching movies with him as a friend who’s started getting into them.
Cringe ensues. Tasuku has at least worked hard to try and be fit and attractive, which has amusingly helped him draw in every girl he doesn’t want and also set up Tom Holland as his rival (the humour in this is of a subtle flavour I really liked). But he’s got no idea what Shia is actually like.
What’s pretty clear from the outset is that Shia doesn’t like herself a whole heck of a lot. There are lots of hints that she’s got zero self-esteem, even if Tasuku is trying desperately to understand her. She’s also got the big dreams that any teenager might have and wants to realize them.
This gets so many details right about this sort of period in life that it’s almost painfully real some times. I have been in the space of an immature twerp trying to impress an older girl and it went about as well as this did.
Tasuku’s fairly useless older brother and sister are also fun, although they’re more fairly useless in his eyes than in reality. The betrayal he feels when Shia trusts his brother with something rather than him, plus the way they talk about Tasuku, shows the difference in maturity.
That doesn’t stop Tasuku though, which is what I think will put some people off the story. He has precisely no sense of when to not say something and he’s too direct and apologetic by half (again, this rings way too close to home). He’s pursuing Shia hard.
Shia is not much of anything except an object of desire who loves movies, but there are obviously far more layers that have yet to be explored there. The story often gives her full page spreads that seem far more often representative of Tasuku’s affectionate gaze than anything more fanservice-y (well, minus the bike scene). A nice touch.
The series knows its movies too; bringing in classics like Good Will Hunting and Catch Me If You Can. Tasuku being as young as he is doesn’t quite get everything he can from such fare, but he tries. It gives them something to bond over, but also hammers home how young he is.
(There’s a weird joke made by Shia about western films having a lot of sex, which is funny but hardly reflective of the utterly sterile nature of modern cinema.)
I don’t often see aspects of myself reflected in manga, but this one has a ton of them and it resonated really well with me. This is a fraught friendship that is grappling with one person feeling one way, somebody else feeling another, and trying to maintain it regardless (well, sometimes). Frustrations burst forth on both sides and believably so.
While the eventual outcome is likely the obvious coupling, there are lots of possible branching pathways. They’re both interesting characters who have good and bad points and are often doing dumb stuff because they haven’t learned any better.
That was my excuse anyway.
4.5 stars - I’m tempted to give this an even higher rating; it is so, so much more interesting than its predecessor ever got. However, I do acknowledge that it will ring really sour for some people who aren’t into the awkwardness of it all and The Dangers in My Heart it is not. It surprised me in the best way possible though.
June 13, 2025
Feels a little difficult to follow and the main heroine just confuses me so far. But also The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses was also confusing for a bit and this is the same author. You get two more volumes to hook me, Fujichika-San.
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