Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You, Volume 6

どうせ、恋してしまうんだ。 [Dōse, Koishite Shimaunda.] #6

by Haruka Mitsui

During a camping trip held to send off Shuugo's brother, Tougo, who finished his student teacher practicum, Shin makes the bold move to kiss Mizuho! Having decided not to keep his feelings under wraps any longer, Shin declares himself to be Kizuki's rival in love. How will Mizuho handle Shin's earnest advances when she never had an inkling he liked her that way before?!

Genres: Manga, Romance, Shojo

156 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 13, 2023

Reviews

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I continue to pick up this manga, and continue to wonder why. It's perfectly decent, there's really nothing wrong with it. The art's quite nice, and the covers with their water motif are very pretty, too. But there isn't a whole lot exciting about it either.

I don't get any sense of forward momentum from either the main story or the 2030 sections. If you scrambled all the volumes between 2 and 6 up, it wouldn't make a substantial difference, aside from the boy who's in the spotlight at any given time. Thematically it's rather anemic too. The flower of youth has faded, we've gotten older and haven't moved on all that much. And... that's about all.

Let's see what v. 7 has to offer. More of the same wouldn't be terrible, but my enthusiasm for running on this treadmill will wane eventually.

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

[Placeholder until Goodreads adds the English release because I’ve been sitting on this review for over two months]

Shin decides to start getting more aggressive with his pursuit of Mizuho and he won’t let silly things like consent get in his way. We finally learn the truth in the future and it’s probably the least interesting outcome.

Anyway, I’m falling out of love with Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You, in case that wasn’t fairly obvious from the cranky synopsis. It really decides to go all in on that ‘Shin as rival’ scenario and that makes for a teeth-gratingly bad time because of how the story frames Mizuho.

He basically drags Mizuho along to get a gift for the departing Tougo and turns it into a date for one, since he invades her space constantly and does a lot of other stuff that should really involve asking the other person if they’re cool with it.

Like, dude, come on. And this also brings out the worst in Kizuki at the same time, as these morons both jockey over Mizuho in a depressing escalation of how she was being treated in the last volume. At least this time she pushes back on them hard, but hoo boy, female empowerment this is not.

Everything else tends to be, irritatingly, pretty good. Tougo’s practical being over means he is deluged in gifts from off-limits girls, which reflects the experiences of other student teachers I’ve encountered in my own journeys. He gives Mizuho some sage advice amidst his misbehaving and I love the little bit of storytelling that fleshes out his own story.

I don’t want to stereotype either, but there’s some very broad hints that, if he isn’t gay, Airu is at least open to the notion and that’s why his own crush on Mizuho is more like a crush about having a crush than anything about love. It’s not the only interpretation, certainly, but a more interesting one than a case of Yet Another Rival Syndrome.

Too bad about the central conflict here. It really just drove me spare and, well, let’s get into spoiler town for the future visits because I have thoughts.

So, the most interesting revelation is that despite her efforts, Mizuho never actually achieves her dreams, yet lives alongside them. It’s actually refreshing to see the suggestion that you might not succeed at one thing, yet can still manage to be happy in that field.

But we also get the revelation that not only is Kizuki alive in this timeline, but he comes back on the scene in one of the most aggravating moments of deus ex machina I’ve seen in a while. And apparently nothing ever happened, just so we can get the big reconcile in the future. It’s absolutely the worst way this could have gone instead of him either being dead or already in a relationship with Mizuho.

3 stars - boy, I hope this series ends soon before it really starts to grate because it’s seriously flipping close to fraying my last bits of goodwill from the earlier volumes.

[mar · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG THIS VOLUME WAS SO GOOD AND ALL OF THEM IN 2030 WERE 😍

[DonutKnow · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m cheering for Shin ❤️❤️

[Tachan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Après un petit passage à vide, il y a un peu de mieux dans ce tome où l'autrice décide de rendre les personnages plus acteurs de leurs sentiments mais que ça reste fait avec de gros sabots...

Je ne sais pas à partir de quel tome l'autrice a su que sa série serait adaptée en animé mais j'ai le sentiment déjà d'une histoire qu'on délaye et délaye. Et c'est dommage parce que les débuts plus fonceurs de la série étaient agréables. Là, on sent que l'autrice joue avec nos nerfs, que ce soit avec les va-et-vient avec le futur qui nous lancent sans cesse sur des pistes qu'on ne peut vérifier, ou avec le présent où son héroïne hyper indécise, pire, qui revient en arrière quand on pense qu'elle s'est décidée, agace. Mais c'est aussi la recette pour maintenir notre attention.

Et dans ce tome, voir les garçons de la couverture se décider et passer à l'action est une bonne chose pour faire avancer le schmilblick. Ça fait plaisir de les voir énoncer leurs sentiments, dire clairement à l'héroïne ce qu'ils vont faire et ce qu'ils attendent d'elle. Au moins, on a mis carte sur table et on peut avancer au lieu de tourner en rond et de faire semblant de ne rien voir. J'ai trouvé mignon les interventions de leurs amis observateurs, que ce soit le grand frère qui parle de son expérience et ses regrets ou l'ami mannequin qui vient la consoler comme elle l'a fait avec lui autrefois. Ce sont de jolis moments de l'histoire, qui montrent également qu'elle n'est pas construite que sur la romance, mais qu'au contraire l'amitié en est le coeur. 

Et puis, il y a les histoires de coeur. Je ne suis pas fan des comportements des garçons qui parfois s'imposent trop à elle et sont limites niveau consentement. Mais j'aime la fraîcheur, la fougue et la maladresse de leur jeunesse. Même si je râle, le comprend les hésitations de Mizuho et au contraire j'aime qu'elle prenne le temps de réfléchir et qu'elle ne se lance pas bille en tête. Elle me touche à vouloir préserver leur amitié, relation qui compte le plus pour elle. J'aime aussi sa passion pour le dessin, pour les mangas et le fait que ça perdure une fois adulte. D'ailleurs, quelle torture que ce nouveau bond dans le futur ! Les nouvelles révélations ne peuvent que nous titiller encore plus. Seul hic, la série est toujours en cours au Japon, elle compte 12 tomes déjà, et je crains de beaucoup beaucoup ronger mon frein et m'agacer des tours et détours è_é

Romance lycéenne ultra classique mais relevée un peu par la place que l'autrice offre à l'amitié entre ce groupe d'ados qui se suit depuis l'enfance. Je suis contente de voir les choses avancer même si ça signifie des comportements qui m'agacent parfois des deux côtés. Je savoure surtout les pistes lancées depuis le futur qui viennent titiller ma curiosité et me donner envie de poursuivre. A suivre ^^

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[Cassandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am continuing to sttuggle with this series as she still seems like a place holder. But she got more time in this volume which is nice. And I think one isn't in love with her but in love with Kizuki. Which you know what refreshing. I am not shipping anyone still at this point, she finally told them to stop messing with her which was a delight.

[allie-chan ✨💅🏻💓 · Rating 5 out of 5]

das ende 😭 ich hasse zwar das love triangle, aber airu gleicht mit seiner supersuessen art alles aus. idk ich lese iwie groesstenteils wegen ihm & weil er so wholesome ist & weil ich es supercute finde, wie er & mizuho sich (freundschaftlich) supporten. das macht spass :)

[♡Kayla♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can't help it, I feel so incredibly bored by this story and characters! None of them are consistently interesting, and I hate that our FMC feels secondary to all of the men!!!

Honestly, I don't think I can bring myself to read anymore of this bland story.

[Karina Catellan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Airu estuda em Londres e enfim Kizuki apareceu Y.Y
Ainda acho que a Mizuho devia escolher um dos outros amigos Ç_Ç

[Jess Shumaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

The time jumps are starting to stress me out