Mi amor por Yamada está al nv. 999, vol. 3

山田くんとLv999の恋をする [Yamada-kun to Lv999 no Koi wo Suru] #3

by Mashiro

Love level-up in progress... The third volume of the award-winning manga that inspired the anime My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999.

Akane’s feelings for Yamada continue to grow as he proves to be a considerate and reliable guy on and offline, but she’s starting to overthink everything she does around him.

When Akane and the guild members attend a cultural festival at Yamada’s school, all the students think Akane is Yamada’s girlfriend, which leads to an embarrassing misunderstanding.

Confusing matters, Yamada rushes to Akane’s aid when she collapses with a fever. Is he just being considerate, as always, or could this be a sign of something more?

Volume 3 includes Chapters 20-30.

Genres: Manga, Romance, Contemporary, Shojo, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Comics

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 23, 2021

Reviews

[rae ✿]

he takes care of her when she's sick trope🫶

[rory (jess' version)]

i want my own yamada

[♡ Martina ♡]

Niente da fare sono troppo carini 💘

[Keiko the manga enthusiast ♒︎]

I'm sorry, I don't know if it's just really getting boring or I'm not in the mood to read a shoujo manga.

[Beary Into Books]

3.75

[Steph ✨]

3.5 Stars.

I'm really enjoying this series. It's such a good palette cleanser. Excited to continue on to volume 4.

[Leila ✨]

Chicos me baja la presión de la emoción necesito ver esto animado ya.

4 de 5 estrellas.

[nelly_tales]

This manga just caught my heart even more when they both got together 😭✋ it becomes better and better.

[Nadia]

SICKNESS TROPE!!! I REPEAT, SICKNESS TROPE. and it's properly done.

The ML has a special place in my heart. Where can I find someone like him? He's such a green flag

[Laura A. Grace]

I really feel like this is the volume where the series really starts to take shape and has me much more invested in all the characters!

Not saying I wasn't before since I've read this series digitally 3 to 4 times already, but this is the part/volume where I just couldn't stop reading! I think a large part of that is because we're seeing more of Yamada and how kind he is as a person. He was before now too, but it's much more obvious that just because he may say something "cold," it doesn't mean that he IS cold.

Akane is wonderful as usual!! I really found her relatable when she was sick and getting so worked up because girl SAMEEEE! I'm so emotional and cry about everything, and so I saw a lot of myself in her. My heart hurt for her though when she thought Yamada helping her was just a dream. 😭😭😭

Also, THE SWOONNNNNNNNN!! So many swoon worthy moments and *I* felt bad thinking that when Akane was sick and Yamada came to help, but THE SWOON WAS REAL!!

Definitely an excellent volume and very very excited to be rereading this series physically! Loving everyone growing closer as the relationships in this series, romantically and platonically, are everything!

[Gloria]

Dibujo 5⭐
Personajes 3⭐
Argumento 3⭐
Coherencia 4⭐
Originalidad 3⭐
Disfrute 3⭐

[Ana O. ⭐]

(ATY-26): 24. A book that is either frothy or gothy

[ariana esnifa libros]

estuvo más entretenido, pero no me da ganas de seguir 😞

[Lucy (the invisible life of a reader)]

akane is too kind 😭😭
AJDJDJJDJDJDJD YAMADA TAKING CARE OF AKANE CUZ SHE'S SICK MY HEART CAN'T TAKE THIS honestly one of my favourite troupes in stories

[Ana]

he is so baby 😭

[Cammy]

TAKING CARE OF HER WHEN SHES SICKKKKK ONE OF MY FAV TROUPES

[Aradeea]

Cuquis sin ser cringe 👌

[Mapi]

Lo enganchada que me tiene esto !!!!

[Geann]

still got me kicking and screaming 🥰

[Coke Fernández]

Capítulos del 20 al 30. Me gusta cómo se está desarrollando la historia 😊.

[B. P. Rinehart]

A winter storm and black-out means that it was a perfect time for my first completed read of the year. Which is not exactly a re-read, but sort-of is. This volume recounts episodes 7-10 of the anime. I ended-up following the manga and even going back and purchasing a physical copy of this volume because of chapter/part 30 of the manga that ends this volume. To me it is one of the most startling mature philosophical expressions of love that I have seen in anime or manga.

I won't do a full-recap, but to give some backstory: this series is a shoujo romance manga about about a college student named Akane whose life is sort-of a mess after a recent break-up as she falls in love with a professional gamer named Akito Yamada—the title character (her ex was a gamer as well). In this volume she and Yamada are not yet a couple, but we are all but assured by the end of the chapter that they will become a couple (I am currently on volume 8 in which a lot more pivotal things have happened).

I want to highlight this volume because of chapter 30. During the typical "sick day" trope where one love interest becomes sick and the other takes care of them. Akane overworks herself and becomes sick, so Yamada comes over takes her to the doctor and stays by her side while she is resting. When Akane wakes-up and her and Yamada are talking about what happens they come to talk about love. Yamada has never fell in-love with anyone and instead has turned-down many girls pretty-coldly during his life and as he does finally fall in-love with Akane—he feels intense guilt for the people whose feelings he has hurt. Akane, whose ex left her for somebody else he met while online gaming, surprisingly has compassion for Yamada and Yamada questions why given her experience with her boyfriend. She states that she was glad that her ex was up-front to her about the fact that he loved someone else and didn't try to just two-time her (most of what she says here we see in happen in volume 1/episode 1 where she accepts the breakup stoicly and with a pained-smile despite being hurt by it as we would see later, but now we learn what she was thinking as this awkward/painful episode transpired). What she says next is the moment I knew this was one of the best shoujo series I have ever encountered:

"No matter what I said, I knew it wouldn't change anything, so when he broke up with me, I accepted it right away.

If he ever thinks about me or feels nostalgic, I want him to remember me smiling not bawling.

I want him to think that he had a great woman, and that he regrets leaving me. Don't you think it's better that way?"

Yamada thinks over his past, and easily agrees. While Akane is not a perfect protagonist, she is the heroine required for this story. Despite this obviously being a story of the soujo demographic-category, our lead has a lot of shounen hero personality traits. I tell you I was knocked out of my seat when I first heard those lines from above, and I still get chills reading them now. A lot of "serious" novels can't give you insight on how to deal with the end of a relationship that is equal to this. I have much that I can say about this series in its totality, but I just wanted to highlight this pivotal scene which would be a foreshadowing to another scene that would occur later on in the story when the two finally consummate their relationship. It was nice looking back on this early part of the story again.

Al Green - For The Good Times
The irony of posting a breakup song on a review of a book that is leading to the main couple actually getting together is unusual, but I feel it works on what I was talking about.

In the Afterword, the author says that this was the volume where it started being a true romance manga. Amen

[anita]

a trope clássica do clichê com ele cuidando dela quando ela fica doente… amo muito tudo isso <3 e ele é tão gentil 🥹 amo o fato de que ele é taxado como frio, mas consegue ser super gentil e preocupado, principalmente quando a pessoa é a akane. e ela é tipo, a princesa mais linda desse mundo.

4.25!

[mikaela (spinebreaker)]

I just love that Eita's punctuation is hearts

I'm here for him honestly oops

[Mei ☽︎]

I love them 🥹🥹🥹

This one volume alone was SO CUTE. It had many things I liked in it and I can't wait to read more.

[Say]

Ugh I need volume 4!!!

[Paula]

me tengo que esperar a mañana para poder seguir leyendo, creo que podría morir

[Lucía B.]

3,5 ⭐

[Andrea]

no para no para no para

[Kayla]

It always ends right when I think something’s going to happen. Looks like Yamada is coming to terms with his feelings for Akane.

[★ngeles]

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