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好都合セミフレンド [Koutsugou Semi-Friend] #2
Convenient Semi-Friend, Vol. 2
Suuna is a gloomy high school student in a FWB (Friend Who’s a Backup) contract with her roommate Ruka. As the two of them become more and more intensely intertwined each day, Suuna must try her best not to surrender or melt away!
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Published November 25, 2025
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November 26, 2025
I’m not about to call this especially good (I wouldn’t call it explicit either, see last volume’s complaint), but I do think it has its moments. It manages to fire off a bunch of gags, and some of them land pretty well.
I think the biggest hurdle to this series is its very awkward use of the term ‘FWB’ and the premise hinging on Suuna being so sheltered, yet devoid of curiousity, that she accepts everybody’s explanation without doing her own work.
But that’s the nature of this series, which is skewing pretty closely to farce with its assumptions and miscommunications. When Suuna’s own mother is dunking on her, well, that tells a lot about how ridiculous this is.
And so it goes - Suuna doesn’t know what she’s doing, but she wants to learn, but all the advice she’s getting is either terrible or deliberately misleading. Either way, it all ends up pushing Ruka’s buttons. Deadly hugs and devastating pecks on the cheek ensue.
Actually, I appreciated the flashback to Ruka’s past, which is ripped out of a much better manga than this one, frankly. Ruka’s never not been into girls and a little flirtation with one of her older brother’s friends becomes something a little more.
Then said friend tries for a university farther away and Ruka realizes exactly where she sits in the pecking order with this other girl. It impacts her life and outlook and causes her to embrace connections with physical intimacy and not much else.
Which is a problem when Suuna comes in and makes her weak in the knees constantly, looks out for her emotional wellbeing, and doesn’t have a hint of guile in her entire body. There’s so much potential for Ruka to really have somebody mean something to her, but she has to actually accept Suuna as more than a toy for that to happen.
Not that the story is focused on that, it’s just the best part. Otherwise it’s stuff like Suuna learning massage and the two of them getting stuck in a changing room together. There are a few good jokes in here; the supporting cast offers a lot of amusing weirdness amidst the leads doing their thing.
It’s not the funniest thing I’ve read; much of this is strictly goofing around with one person saying one thing innocently and another person taking it the wrong way and comedy flowing from that. But it gets the job done.
And I think it needs that humour because the romance is simply okay; nothing you haven’t read a dozen times before. The extra angle of Ruka’s past and the way Suuna keeps demolishing her defences help keep it above average as well. Honestly, if it was a more serious manga focusing on the dramatic side it would probably be much better.
3 stars - enjoyable mediocrity. There are hints that the mangaka could have a truly great series in them, but it’s not like I feel my time is wasted by reading this one while we wait.
I think the biggest hurdle to this series is its very awkward use of the term ‘FWB’ and the premise hinging on Suuna being so sheltered, yet devoid of curiousity, that she accepts everybody’s explanation without doing her own work.
But that’s the nature of this series, which is skewing pretty closely to farce with its assumptions and miscommunications. When Suuna’s own mother is dunking on her, well, that tells a lot about how ridiculous this is.
And so it goes - Suuna doesn’t know what she’s doing, but she wants to learn, but all the advice she’s getting is either terrible or deliberately misleading. Either way, it all ends up pushing Ruka’s buttons. Deadly hugs and devastating pecks on the cheek ensue.
Actually, I appreciated the flashback to Ruka’s past, which is ripped out of a much better manga than this one, frankly. Ruka’s never not been into girls and a little flirtation with one of her older brother’s friends becomes something a little more.
Then said friend tries for a university farther away and Ruka realizes exactly where she sits in the pecking order with this other girl. It impacts her life and outlook and causes her to embrace connections with physical intimacy and not much else.
Which is a problem when Suuna comes in and makes her weak in the knees constantly, looks out for her emotional wellbeing, and doesn’t have a hint of guile in her entire body. There’s so much potential for Ruka to really have somebody mean something to her, but she has to actually accept Suuna as more than a toy for that to happen.
Not that the story is focused on that, it’s just the best part. Otherwise it’s stuff like Suuna learning massage and the two of them getting stuck in a changing room together. There are a few good jokes in here; the supporting cast offers a lot of amusing weirdness amidst the leads doing their thing.
It’s not the funniest thing I’ve read; much of this is strictly goofing around with one person saying one thing innocently and another person taking it the wrong way and comedy flowing from that. But it gets the job done.
And I think it needs that humour because the romance is simply okay; nothing you haven’t read a dozen times before. The extra angle of Ruka’s past and the way Suuna keeps demolishing her defences help keep it above average as well. Honestly, if it was a more serious manga focusing on the dramatic side it would probably be much better.
3 stars - enjoyable mediocrity. There are hints that the mangaka could have a truly great series in them, but it’s not like I feel my time is wasted by reading this one while we wait.
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