Summary
Aoi finally admits her own feelings for Shusei, but now she has to work up the courage to tell him! Unfortunately that will be rather difficult as Shusei continues to not concern himself with Aoi's feelings or giving up their cover. In the meantime, both Aoi and Shusei go on a trip to Hokkaido. Despite Shusei's sensei creating a scene and throwing herself at Shusei, Aoi and Shusei end up together on a beautiful night gazing over the city lights. The next day, Shusei's brother shows up to to help Aoi attract Shusei's attentions, but will his attempts be successful or will their scheming end up doing more damage than good?
My Rating:
3 stars. Maybe a 2.7
My Review:
I loved the first scene in this book. I thought it was truly hilarious how Aoi tries so hard, too hard in fact to not be discovered with Shusei. So much so that she hides under the covers and sneaks off outside while the Shusei and his friends are playing video games. I was dying laughing the whole time! But then Shusei and Aoi take a plunge several floors to avoid being seen together. Yeah... there's no way someone wouldn't break some bones at least. I don't know about you, but I don't know anybody who would go to those lengths (literally) to hide a girl. That's manga for you!
Now we come to the teacher scene. Sheesh! My god. Seriously? That teacher is really pretty, and she could probably get any hot guy she wanted who was HER OWN AGE, but instead she just likes them young, ew yuck! I wasn't totally surprised the author threw that scene in there because it is manga after all and I will be honest and say I've been hearing more and more stories in real life where young teachers are sleeping with their high school students, but that's sexual assault! Come on' lady! Even though I was thoroughly disgusted, I did however LOVED how Shusei dealt with her. He basically not only pointed out she was being ridiculous and a pain in the ass when he threw her over his shoulder and took her to the grill stand, but he also gave her a taste of her own medicine!
We met the sister, now enter the brother. Could you believe that there is a more messed up guy than Shusei? Why do all of the men in this series grope and sexually assault Aoi? I mean I feel like Shusei tries to make a point to Aoi that she's not fighting them back or just "letting them do it" but seriously? It SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING IN THE FIRST PLACE! That's the one thing that really erks me about this manga and is getting old real fast with this series. Honestly this could be a 4 or maybe even 5 star series, but I think that really turns off readers and I can see why! It's uncomfortable to read, but I can't stop reading because I don't understand how Aoi can put up with all this abuse? Honey, no man is worth that. I don't care why Shusei or Soju are doing that to her, it's just WRONG. Does anyone else see a problem with this?
Anyways, going back to the brother, Soju appears to want to help Aoi on the surface to get Shusei's attention, but then we discover he has his own secret agenda. What is Soju really up to?