Mocchi plans to make a play for Anna while they’re on the school trip, but Natuski also has his sights on finally stepping up and confessing. Cue all the crossed wires and missed connections you can reasonably fit in a volume of manga.
Disposable entertainment at its most disposable is pretty much how I think of Rainbow Days at this point. It’s certainly the series I would miss the least if I ended up not reading it again, but as something that doesn’t require an iota of processing power, it has its place.
And there are some okay moments scattered throughout an otherwise pedestrian trip arc that won’t especially surprise you, but manage to distract from the more annoying parts.
(I specifically mean Tsutsui here; if I never see that damn ‘YARL’ sound effect in another manga ever in my lifetime it still won’t make up for its overuse in this title.)
Mocchi tries his best to be the rival, bless him, even recruiting a wingman to work a sort of dark reflection (well, not that he’s evil, this story has fewer fangs than a Doberman with gum disease) of Natsuki and his pals.
But, he quickly realizes that he’s the second horse in a two-horse race and handicapped from the start. So this slowly turns into him wanting closure to this aspect of his life by getting the confession done and his rejection set.
This is so much text that I’m not sure why they bothered to end the volume like this was some sort of cliffhanger. Just par for the course for a series that might not function as a sedative, precisely, but nobody would accuse it of having a high caffeine content either.
3 stars - it’s fine. I know I have used the term ‘manga sorbet’ before and I have a strong suspicion that it was in relation to this very series. Nothing exciting; good for when you don’t want to engage your brain too hard.