Arisa hasn’t gotten her memories back, but it’s still full steam ahead for her and Mari. As they plan their wedding, well, the story continues as it has before. Which absolutely informs what you’ll make of it.
Okay, fine, it isn’t exactly the same as last time. Arisa’s former self manifests as a shadowy ghost that keeps giving her salacious ideas about what she could be doing to Mari and that is, hands down, the best gag this series has ever managed.
Everything else is the usual tepid old jokes about sex and being flustered and then the other person being flustered and what was Arisa like and everything else that has been part of this from volume one.
And, hey, it’s fine. This is a real short read that is… fine. Some of the arcs are lame, few of the jokes really land, but it has cheerful in the title for a reason. Hanging out with these goofs is not a brilliant time, but it’s not the worst way to while it away either.
It reminds me of Our Teachers Are Dating!, which was also incredibly inoffensive and nothing that I found especially remarkable. This has a similar energy, or lack thereof, but even lesser than.
You’ve basically seen everything this had to offer in the previous volumes, so it’s just here to be the same thing again, unabashedly so, I would think.
There’s an art to good written gags and timing that I don’t find present here. Again, it’s trying to be sweet more than anything and that’s perfectly tolerable. Just know what you’re getting into - deep discussion of any lesbian issues is not on the menu.
(Nor does it have to be, but when you’re talking about a gay wedding in Japan, it IS kind of looming there in the background).
3 stars - as inoffensive as it ever was; sometimes offensively so.