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Throw Away the Suit Together
Throw Away the Suit Together Vol. 2
COZY ISLAND LIFEHaru and Hii-chan left Tokyo, throwing their resumes into the ocean and running away to settle on an island. A dream-like world presented itself to them, but the realities of living on their own quickly piled up. Even with part-time work, worries about the future begin to slow them down. As concerns about long-term work and living expenses weigh on them, will this couple find themselves forced back to city life?
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Published October 22, 2024
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October 30, 2024
With their suits well and truly thrown away, Haru and Hinoto adjust to island life. But living in paradise still comes with a price tag and it may be one that they’re ill-equipped to afford. Especially when they want to get married to boot.
This is going to sound especially curmudgeonly of me, but this story doesn’t actually have any stakes. Like, okay, there’s Haru’s precarious mental health about having to live in the city, but even that is mostly related to job hunting.
The island has many job opportunities that require a college degree, which they are a year away from getting. I know it seems like a lot, but in the grand scheme of life, the universe, and everything, it is a drop in the bucket.
They could literally stick it out for a year together, support one another, then run away AND have good job prospects. I get that they don’t want to go back, but I also think getting a degree, when you’re that close (even if you’ll never use it), is kind of smart.
That’s just me, and I am not this story, but it does make me think this is a lot less dire than it seems except for them potentially flushing all that effort away. They also don’t have a budget, have only lined up work for a month, etc. It just doesn’t work when the characters are literally manufacturing their own crisis.
It’s hard to stay invested when there is an obvious solution that isn’t actually that bad that the leads just turn their noses up at. They talk about being trapped in an endless cycle, but they just work themselves to the bone in a warmer climate this volume. What’s better?
When they’re checking the job listings and Haru’s biggest concern about the job listing she’s found is that it looks fun, I feel so disconnected from this story that it’s practically coming from another dimension adjacent to mine.
It might just be the cultural differences between the stereotypical Japanese working environment and our own. A job you enjoy does count for a lot, but you also need to be able to live on something other than the good graces of your relatives.
This is a narrative about cutting off your nose to spite your face and I just cannot get around it (if it wasn’t wildly obvious). The romance is also overly dramatic at times; that omake felt particularly eye-rolling and an attempt to shoehorn in some sexual content.
Sometimes the story does okay, these two are always there for one another, but nothing about it is all that interesting and the story is a highway of obstacles that passes a ton of unencumbered off-ramps as they go by.
Not surprisingly, it’s a… wait for it… three volume series. That means this all needs to wrap up next time, but, if I’m honest, I’m not sure I’ll even bother seeing it through to the conclusion. There’s so little here if you apply any common sense to it.
2.5 stars - occasionally decent is about as rousing a cheer as I can give this, but all its drama is undercut by the fact that the characters are intent on ignoring an obvious solution that is nowhere near as bad as they make it out to be.
This is going to sound especially curmudgeonly of me, but this story doesn’t actually have any stakes. Like, okay, there’s Haru’s precarious mental health about having to live in the city, but even that is mostly related to job hunting.
The island has many job opportunities that require a college degree, which they are a year away from getting. I know it seems like a lot, but in the grand scheme of life, the universe, and everything, it is a drop in the bucket.
They could literally stick it out for a year together, support one another, then run away AND have good job prospects. I get that they don’t want to go back, but I also think getting a degree, when you’re that close (even if you’ll never use it), is kind of smart.
That’s just me, and I am not this story, but it does make me think this is a lot less dire than it seems except for them potentially flushing all that effort away. They also don’t have a budget, have only lined up work for a month, etc. It just doesn’t work when the characters are literally manufacturing their own crisis.
It’s hard to stay invested when there is an obvious solution that isn’t actually that bad that the leads just turn their noses up at. They talk about being trapped in an endless cycle, but they just work themselves to the bone in a warmer climate this volume. What’s better?
When they’re checking the job listings and Haru’s biggest concern about the job listing she’s found is that it looks fun, I feel so disconnected from this story that it’s practically coming from another dimension adjacent to mine.
It might just be the cultural differences between the stereotypical Japanese working environment and our own. A job you enjoy does count for a lot, but you also need to be able to live on something other than the good graces of your relatives.
This is a narrative about cutting off your nose to spite your face and I just cannot get around it (if it wasn’t wildly obvious). The romance is also overly dramatic at times; that omake felt particularly eye-rolling and an attempt to shoehorn in some sexual content.
Sometimes the story does okay, these two are always there for one another, but nothing about it is all that interesting and the story is a highway of obstacles that passes a ton of unencumbered off-ramps as they go by.
Not surprisingly, it’s a… wait for it… three volume series. That means this all needs to wrap up next time, but, if I’m honest, I’m not sure I’ll even bother seeing it through to the conclusion. There’s so little here if you apply any common sense to it.
2.5 stars - occasionally decent is about as rousing a cheer as I can give this, but all its drama is undercut by the fact that the characters are intent on ignoring an obvious solution that is nowhere near as bad as they make it out to be.
January 7, 2025
I really liked this volume. The same dreamy, run-away feeling from the first volume is still here, but now we're also getting the economic pressures and realities that they were blissfully ignoring. And the combination really works, painting a complex image that so many young people, and anyone really, find themselves in -- the desire to run away, to do what sounds fun, to just live a life with the person you love and doing what you love... but the reality that there are bills to pay and food that needs to be put on the table.
While it's not the deepest exploration of this idea, I love seeing Hii-chan and Haru's battles with finances, their dreams, their mental health and well being, and the economic reality of not being able to do much without a steady job -- and a degree to get said job. All of it is explored well, and their passion for each other and desire to achieve the new life they're dreaming of is a nice backdrop. I also like how both of them are willing to sacrifice and fight for the other one, and how they both don't want to be a burden to the other. It's sweet to see them so caring, and I hope they continue to learn that their relationship isn't defined by who is taking care of who or who is burdening the other, but that they, together, are working hard to create the future they both want.
While it's not the deepest exploration of this idea, I love seeing Hii-chan and Haru's battles with finances, their dreams, their mental health and well being, and the economic reality of not being able to do much without a steady job -- and a degree to get said job. All of it is explored well, and their passion for each other and desire to achieve the new life they're dreaming of is a nice backdrop. I also like how both of them are willing to sacrifice and fight for the other one, and how they both don't want to be a burden to the other. It's sweet to see them so caring, and I hope they continue to learn that their relationship isn't defined by who is taking care of who or who is burdening the other, but that they, together, are working hard to create the future they both want.
March 29, 2025
Ta manga jest jak malowane jajka wydmuszki - ładna na zewnątrz, pusta w środku.
June 17, 2025
This just gets cuter. Looking forward to reading the next one!
February 17, 2025
I like how realistic this manga ended up being; Haru and Hii-chan didn’t just run off into the sunset and find paradise on this island, instead living your dream life costs money and they need to figure out how to get some. Fast.
Haru and Hii-chan have a cute dynamic and I really like that you can see just how comfortable they are in the smaller, more subtle interactions that they have in the story. I am very curious on how the next volume will go, considering the potentially tough conversation the couple will be having based on the cliffhanger ending for this volume.
Haru and Hii-chan have a cute dynamic and I really like that you can see just how comfortable they are in the smaller, more subtle interactions that they have in the story. I am very curious on how the next volume will go, considering the potentially tough conversation the couple will be having based on the cliffhanger ending for this volume.
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