Alright, well, YozaFam continues to be pretty good, even if it's nowhere near the upper echelon of Jump manga (though I won't say anything from the past few years is as good as the longest-running series right now, One Piece and Hunter x Hunter; Jujutsu was great for the duration of the lengthy Shibuya arc, but mediocre beforehand and rote afterward...).
I need to learn to temper my expectations a bit more, or, really, to just ignore other people's opinions. Before I started reading this manga, I looked up the list of "story arcs" on its fan Wiki, mostly interested to see if any arc would last a particularly long chapter-count, or if it would be like e.g. Gintama where everything is largely episodic, occasionally flirting with small arcs lasting a handful of chapters. From the Wiki, it looked like the manga would be composed of a lot of short-ish arcs around ten chapters in length. Reading the first two volumes, I've learned the Wiki had the same old bullshit found in a lot of Western manga fandom: forcing series to conform to a specific narrative standard incongruent with the actual text. A rather "Big Thing" I've discovered recently is that Western fans like to invent "Sagas" as a collection of smaller, related, sequential "Arcs," inventing terms where it feels like the original authors had no such idea. This is probably worst in HeroAca fandom, by the way. I'd say this "Saga" shit is fallout from people growing up on Funimation's Dragon Ball (Z) dubs, but, anyway, I'm digressing too much for this rant, as YozaFam hasn't seemed to suffer the "let's make up names for 'Sagas'" treatment yet. What does happen is fans will latch on to a short sequence of chapters focusing on a singular antagonist, then work backward to say everything since the previous antagonist is a unified arc. So we have Taiyo marry into the Yozakura family and start training, then the courier guy kidnaps Mutsumi, and this whole sequence of chapters is the Flower Delivery Arc or whatever, despite most of it having nothing to do with the courier. And now we have the Popoppo Arc because the president introduced himself, and everything since the courier fight has been the Popoppo Arc, despite many episodic chapters having nothing to do with this guy, and despite the courier having been hired by the Popoppo president, meaning technically that whole fight could be viewed as part of this same arc....
I used my "rom-com" tag for the first volume, but that element seems to have dropped off a bit by now, or at least comes and goes. That is, Taiyo and Mutsumi are techincally "married," and the family's mission is about protecting Mutsumi, but that has little to do with the "comedy" of the series, which is more about the over-the-top spy stuff Taiyo's sucked into. That said, the "Date" chapter was quite nice. (I actually started writing this paragraph when I was on Chapter 12 or 13, so after the "Date" chapter, #14, the volume started focusing more on Taiyo and Mutsumi's relationship...)
Mutsumi looks cute in her sweater on the volume cover.
The introduction of Ayaka proves that the OL teacher last volume wasn't just a fluke, and Gondaira is a whiz at drawing pantyhose-covered thighs and calves...!!!
Kengo is actually best girl. No h*mo.