I Cannot Reach You - Tome 3

君には届かない。 [Kimi ni wa Todokanai.] #3

by Mika .

" Si je continue à me sentir cafardeux, comme ça, est-ce que j'arriverai à rester ton ami, comme avant ? ". Quand Yamato le prend dans ses bras, Kakeru se sent complètement perdu. Son ami d'enfance serait-il amoureux de lui ? Alors que Kakeru, conscient de cette possibilité, surréagit à tout, Yamato, lui, se comporte exactement comme d'habitude. Mais le voyage scolaire est sur le point de commencer et un événement majeur risque de venir perturber leur relation !

Genres: Manga, Romance, LGBT, Young Adult, Yaoi, Boys Love, Contemporary

180 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2020

Reviews

[moonlight ☾ [semi-hiatus]]

4.5 stars ☆

holy fuck, this manga is cute af!! 🥺

so i'm currently back in my manga mood and i was looking for something to read, noticed this has been on my tbr shelf for a while and i finally picked it up and ended up binging all the current chapters released in one sitting (but i can feel the regret starting to sink in bc i have to wait for future chapters to be released). the story isn't anything "new" or "groundbreaking", but the characters are lovable and i admit the fluff got to me.

if you like childhood friends to lovers, slow burn with yearning, opposites attract (quiet, reserved character having a secret crush on his goofy and loud but oblivious bestie) AND CUTE MOMENTS, go pick this up rn (and suffer with me pls). the way i actually felt giddy over these two and the way this volume ended... I NEED MORE. 😭😭

p.s. if anyone has any cute, wholesome mm manga recs, pls lmk! <3

[Cyndi · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you finish volume 3 and realize volume 4 won't be delivered until tomorrow.😫

[Johnee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ummmm. I actually clutched at my heart a few times. Cute overload.

[Senise · Rating 3 out of 5]

THE FRUSTRATION WAS WORTH IT.
FINALLY

[Jen13 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m dying of frustration reading this series! So slow burn. Thank goodness I love these two, because we spend about 90% of the book in their heads. The school trip takes up the bulk of this volume and poor Kakeru is a nervous wreck. It’s actually uncomfortable to read. I raised it a star because something FINALLY happened at the end of this volume.

[Nathan Bartos · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series kills me; it's very slow-burn for what I'm used to in a BL manga, but I just love it so much. Something finally happened, and I can't wait to see how it's dealt with in the next volume! FINALLY A LOVE DECLARATION AND A KISS YESSSS!!!!!

[micah · Rating 5 out of 5]

i LOVEEEEE this manga so much 😭😭😭😭 i’m a huge fan of the school trip/vacation troupe and this volume was full of it

[Neoday☆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yamato, my guy, well done!

[ariana esnifa libros · Rating 3 out of 5]

HABLEN 👹👹

[Papercut · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 estrellas? por qué? porque le gusto?
🤣 me divertí tanto con este tomo. Y es lindo.

[Bookbringer · Rating 2 out of 5]

2½☆. A bit tedious.

[Fynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[mimimimi · Rating 5 out of 5]

IT HAPPENED.

[Ragavi · Rating 5 out of 5]

FINALLY. Now I gotta wait till April….

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5-3.75/5

[Cristina⏃ϟ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Que bonitos son :3
Tengo que comprar ya el 4to tomo, porque me ha dejado en el mejor momento 💕

[Ester · Rating 5 out of 5]

En este nuevo tomo, lleno de sentimientos por ambas partes, Kakeru está muy rallado a causa del abrazo inesperado que le dio Yamato. El chico no entiende los motivos de su amigo para estrecharlo entre sus brazos y, cada vez que rememora el incidente, el corazón se le acelera y se pone colorado hasta la raíz del pelo. Las cosas no es que mejoren al ver que Yamato parece estar como siempre, sin darle importancia a algo que a él lo tiene ralladísimo. Pero tampoco es el momento de estar en la parra: y es que llega el viaje escolar, uno de los momentos que más esperan los estudiantes (y los lectores de romances de institutos).

Yendo a Kioto con el instituto, los chicos estarán en el mismo grupo junto con otros compañeros, visitando los lugares turísticos más emblemáticos y viviendo las típicas cosas que suelen pasar en los viajes escolares. Y también en el BL. No solo tendremos una escena only one bed, sin quererlo ni beberlo entre nuestros niños, sino que el mismo Kakeru tendrá que intentar poner en orden sus pensamientos y sentimientos por Yamato.

Mientras tanto, Yamato... El pobre sigue en las mismas: aguantándose en silencio su amor por Kakeru, sus deseos e intentando que este no se entere de nada, pero sin alejarse de él y queriendo compartir muchos recuerdos en su viaje a Kioto. Pero el pobre no lo va a tener fácil y algo hará que sus planes con Kakeru se vayan al garete y que no pueda evitar sufrir por ser incapaz de dejar de quererlo y de padecer por ese amor sin corresponder.

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[Bee · Rating 5 out of 5]

YES FINALLY FINALLYYYY!!! I loved the ending so much actually. Yamato finally made a move by kissing Kakeru and then finally confessed to him. It was actually adorable! Sadly it ends before we get Kakeru's full reaction though I bet we'll get it in volume 4. I have a new found hate for Fujino, he wasn't too bad until this book he just kept pestering about girlfriends and shit it was just super annoying. But I love the new character Hosaka oml he's definitely my favorite side character hands down. I can't wait to see where these boys will go in the next volumes!!!

[Moriah Venable · Rating 4 out of 5]

School trip reveals secrets.

After that confessions, I need answers! I knew I was going to regret picking this up while it was still releasing volumes but I couldn't help myself.

I'm glad I have volume 4 to read. I wonder when volume 5 will be released in the U.S.

[Belén :P · Rating 5 out of 5]

LLORO MUCHO, TÍO. Durante toda la lectura tenía (y tengo) el presentimiento de que voy a llorar cuando se declaren los dos porque aªaª Mira que es cliché, pero es tan bonito y tan cuqui que jo 💗💗 Qué monada de manga<3 Y me río mucho también, es que aaaish 🩷💞💓💘💕

[Suppi · Rating 4 out of 5]

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I think it'd the final volume. I have also teared up in every volume so I think im generally unwell.

[Veronica · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 “omg my heart” stars 🥹

[Carmelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

there was a LOT of pining in this one 😟

[Brandie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Each volume is just so good. It was so cute 🥰.

[Emma]

La fin m’a gagged trop hâte de lire la suite 🤭

[Zu. · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMGGGG WAR IS OVER!!! YAMATO BESÓ A KAKERU Y LE CONFESÓ QUE SIEMPRE HA ESTADO ENAMORADO DE ÉL. Si en el próximo volumen fingen demencia, voy a gritar.

[Marisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this! Kyoto in autumn sounds so beautiful and I loved the various places they visited! I want to visit those places too one day!

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

The pacing felt a little off at times - choppy bits of transitional dialogue, and extra comics that interrupted the main storyline at dramatic points and in ways that didn't quite seem canonical? I enjoy that type of content, but they fit better as extras at the end if they're really just side jokes. (Like Kakeru looking for Yamato in the bath when as far as we see, they don't actually bathe together during the trip, since the whole idea makes Kakeru inexplicably anxious.)

I was kind of expecting the surprise friendship between Yamato's sister and coworker to go somewhere, too...what's the whole deal with his sister's crush on Kakeru anyway? Is she planning to actually confess? The timing has definitely passed on that one now, so I'm not sure why the plot point even came up.

Most of this volume takes place during Kakeru's and Yamato's 3 day school trip to Kyoto. I did ultimately enjoy it a lot, but it definitely gets stronger near the end. Some of the other bits felt sort of like filler or were a little awkwardly drawn out...like Kakeru plopping on top of Yamato in his futon while the teacher's doing bed checks. A decent idea, but it felt like it got kind of unwieldy on the page, and needed something else to balance it.

The ending was great, though - I ugly-cried through basically everything after Fujino pulled his big surprise. And I was NOT expecting to get a new favorite character out of this - usually I'm annoyed by the sudden introduction of New People several volumes in, but right now I'm kinda hoping for a Hosaka/Amamiya spinoff? Hosaka is...weirdly cool. He's blunt and not diplomatic at all but is actually super intuitive and great at giving advice. If Yamato would let him, they could be pretty decent friends, I think...and he and Amamiya were so unsurprised and so supportive when they figured out what was really going on with Yamato's feelings towards Kakeru.

Honestly, with how dense and avoidant and frustrating Kakeru was being throughout this volume, I was almost (gasp) starting to root for possibly-also-gay-Hosaka to heal Yamato's heartache instead, but he and Amamiya have an interesting dynamic I'd like to see more of.

And Kakeru is, possibly, starting to pick up the slack in his relationship with Yamato. I liked the little glimpses of Yamato's past (is his dad still around?) and Kakeru finally cluing in on what he's known all along - that Yamato is really, really good at hiding his feelings and what he truly wants, and part of their friendship involves Kakeru being good at pulling that out of him.

He did a good job of that with correctly identifying Yamato's desire to go on a side trip during their Kyoto free day, but he spent so much frustrating time talking himself out of thinking Yamato really wanted to spend time with them. Hopefully now that Yamato has actually confessed - although a bit more physically than I was expecting - maybe they'll make some actual progress and Kakeru can stop being such an intentionally oblivious idiot.

Looking forward to seeing where we go from here!

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

April 2022. BL manga volume 3 about two lifelong friends who are individually realizing their crushes on one another and navigating their feelings and if they should confess or not.
The premise isn’t unique but the execution is incredibly sweet and charming, and quite funny at moments. Really adore this series.
Got volume 3 from Sac library, and pre-ordered volume 4 which comes out in the next couple months 😊

“I Cannot Reach You” volume 3 by Mika

[luna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely kawaii 😊 The plot is amazing, not too boring or slow, the drawing style is simple but harmonious. But why Yamato's so lonely TT I thought he rejected the present Kakeru gave him. I wAs wROnG, can't spoil more but it's freaking GOOD 😭 Finally confessed him and fainted... It'll be more better if I can read the original without translate