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How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend? Vol. 3
FRIENDS AT THE FESTIVAL
How many dates will Minami need to take Yuzu on before they can change their relationship status from “Besties” to “Lovers”? As many as it takes! With the cultural festival fast approaching, there are plenty of new opportunities for the duo to get each other’s hearts racing! Cute outfits, photo ops, a haunted house… It’s perfect! Unless a pesky romantic rival gets in the way…
How many dates will Minami need to take Yuzu on before they can change their relationship status from “Besties” to “Lovers”? As many as it takes! With the cultural festival fast approaching, there are plenty of new opportunities for the duo to get each other’s hearts racing! Cute outfits, photo ops, a haunted house… It’s perfect! Unless a pesky romantic rival gets in the way…
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Published February 25, 2025
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August 26, 2025
Sometimes the difference between a good volume of manga and a great one can be as simple as one chapter just doing something interesting and exciting.
So it goes here, not that I dislike this story (once I remembered who was who). In fact, the bath sequence towards the start throws poor Minami into the figurative deep end as she ends up sharing one with Yuzu, the object of her affection.
Just like when they were childhood friends… minus Minami’s more recent, very intense, feelings towards Yuzu that she would be more than happy to express physically, if an opportunity presented itself. Which it doesn’t, though not for lack of trying.
Instead, Minami’s imagination does the heavy lifting for her, including the phrase ‘slippery teamwork’, which got a good chuckle out of me. And their differing opinions on playing games in the bath. Yuzu continues to be especially hopeless at reading the room.
There are numerous bright spots like this as the struggles and travails continue. I loved the summer festival arc, just because it suddenly pairs Minami with the always fun Tsubasa. The way these two end up bonding over their crushes makes for a fantastic digression from the usual shenanigans.
Even the school festival manages to be pretty good, though this mangaka going for a maid cafe is the least shocking thing ever. It does suddenly introduce a rival, Kamiya, who is into Minami the way Minami wishes Yuzu was into her.
Kamiya is a menace, but she doesn’t wear out her welcome, so she’s a tolerable menace. It’s also fun to watch her stalwart lesbian energy trying to get through Minami’s status as a Yuzu-sexual. She’s pushy, but not too aggressive in that predatory way.
The end of this arc made me laugh pretty hard - that’s a LOT of burnable trash - and Kamiya’s antics once she realizes the impossible task ahead of her seem to spark the change in Yuzu that we knew was coming. It’s nice that Kamiya was able to shoot her shot and be done.
Or did we know that at all?
Thus we get to the last chapter and there are few things I love more than a manga that takes a chapter and uses it to completely reframe the entire series up to this point. This one gets it bang on.
Having read the series to this point, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Yuzu must be denser than a Christmas fruitcake that’s been sucked into a black hole. I mean, that’s the type, right? Nothing new here from many other oblivious protagonists.
Like I said, this completely reframes the entire narrative in a way I really like. It makes the manga’s current scenario almost all poor Minami’s fault, although Yuzu probably shouldn’t put too much stock in responses given in a situation like that. No good deed, and all that. Minami has her work cut out reversing years of repression based on one wrong assumption.
Now, will this suddenly become the most amazing thing you’ve ever read in the history of yuri? No, no it will not. But between a couple of stellar characters (Tsubasa is too good for this series and I like the series) and this new wrinkle, it has elevated itself to be more than just cute girls doing gay cute things.
4 stars - probably an overall 3.5, but anything that makes me appreciate previous volumes of fluff as not as fluff as they appeared is doing a great job.
So it goes here, not that I dislike this story (once I remembered who was who). In fact, the bath sequence towards the start throws poor Minami into the figurative deep end as she ends up sharing one with Yuzu, the object of her affection.
Just like when they were childhood friends… minus Minami’s more recent, very intense, feelings towards Yuzu that she would be more than happy to express physically, if an opportunity presented itself. Which it doesn’t, though not for lack of trying.
Instead, Minami’s imagination does the heavy lifting for her, including the phrase ‘slippery teamwork’, which got a good chuckle out of me. And their differing opinions on playing games in the bath. Yuzu continues to be especially hopeless at reading the room.
There are numerous bright spots like this as the struggles and travails continue. I loved the summer festival arc, just because it suddenly pairs Minami with the always fun Tsubasa. The way these two end up bonding over their crushes makes for a fantastic digression from the usual shenanigans.
Even the school festival manages to be pretty good, though this mangaka going for a maid cafe is the least shocking thing ever. It does suddenly introduce a rival, Kamiya, who is into Minami the way Minami wishes Yuzu was into her.
Kamiya is a menace, but she doesn’t wear out her welcome, so she’s a tolerable menace. It’s also fun to watch her stalwart lesbian energy trying to get through Minami’s status as a Yuzu-sexual. She’s pushy, but not too aggressive in that predatory way.
The end of this arc made me laugh pretty hard - that’s a LOT of burnable trash - and Kamiya’s antics once she realizes the impossible task ahead of her seem to spark the change in Yuzu that we knew was coming. It’s nice that Kamiya was able to shoot her shot and be done.
Or did we know that at all?
Thus we get to the last chapter and there are few things I love more than a manga that takes a chapter and uses it to completely reframe the entire series up to this point. This one gets it bang on.
Having read the series to this point, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Yuzu must be denser than a Christmas fruitcake that’s been sucked into a black hole. I mean, that’s the type, right? Nothing new here from many other oblivious protagonists.
Like I said, this completely reframes the entire narrative in a way I really like. It makes the manga’s current scenario almost all poor Minami’s fault, although Yuzu probably shouldn’t put too much stock in responses given in a situation like that. No good deed, and all that. Minami has her work cut out reversing years of repression based on one wrong assumption.
Now, will this suddenly become the most amazing thing you’ve ever read in the history of yuri? No, no it will not. But between a couple of stellar characters (Tsubasa is too good for this series and I like the series) and this new wrinkle, it has elevated itself to be more than just cute girls doing gay cute things.
4 stars - probably an overall 3.5, but anything that makes me appreciate previous volumes of fluff as not as fluff as they appeared is doing a great job.
February 25, 2025
I knew it!
Apart from that, they were making some great progress, with Minami blushing less and being more brave.
I also liked the new character, Kamiya. Her role was pretty obvious, a very old trope, but it worked. And I did like the date, cause it seemed almost like they're a throuple. ^^
- 25.02.24
Apart from that, they were making some great progress, with Minami blushing less and being more brave.
I also liked the new character, Kamiya. Her role was pretty obvious, a very old trope, but it worked. And I did like the date, cause it seemed almost like they're a throuple. ^^
- 25.02.24
August 18, 2025
4.5 stars
Very cute and wholesome
Very cute and wholesome
September 8, 2025
The art work is good. Thing are getting interesting between Minami and Yuzu. I wonder who will confess their true feelings first. It’s hard to send me their childhood friends.
December 31, 2025
4 estrellas
Yuzu sólita se volvió a poner en la friendzone
Yuzu sólita se volvió a poner en la friendzone
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January 1, 2026
Fun, enjoyed it! Full review to follow on Okazu
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