Finally, Mari has told Anna how she feels. And Natsuki is ready to follow suit. No, really, he is. Any volume now.
I will sound my age trying to channel the youths, but the only way I can really think of Rainbow Days as a whole is, frankly, “aggressively mid”. There’s a good manga here, I think, but it’s buried under the actual manga.
Mari and Anna’s situation resolves rather neatly, somehow turning Mari into a bisexual without actually addressing it, which feels more like a shrug than any progressive stance by the story.
Mari and Matsunaga make for an amusing couple, at least, although the machismo that sometimes sweats out of this series’ pores can be a little eye-rolling at times. At least he’s there for her and actually trying, plus he comforts her when she needs it. So points there.
Ahem. Anyway, Natsuki and Anna are finally… oh. My. Lord. I cannot believe that the mangaka managed to have them dither over this for another volume, but that’s what happens. The Mouth of Madness had less madness.
Part of that better manga is centred around Anna’s opinion of love and how it has done nothing for her except hurt the people around here. There’s a really good ongoing in that, just not this one. Instead, Natsuki speechifies it away and that’s that.
Anna decides, instead, to take another chance on love and realizes that how she feels is okay and she can try to enjoy this and maybe even be a little more forward. This is a great development until Natsuki decides to start waffling harder than a Denny’s at brunch.
Set against the backdrop of the school festival, the random moments of the guys being dopes with one another is really the most enjoyable aspect of this. The romance has been dragged out for ages, although I liked having Natsuki’s rival come through in the clutch with good advice.
I’m not so oblivious that I don’t recognize that a lot of my problems with this manga are definitely more my opinion than objective fact, but it does annoy me a lot. People love these dragged out romances, but I can only handle them for so long when they feel arbitrarily prolonged.
That’s why the reviews have been all over the place - any given volume may play up the things I dislike more than what I think actually works. Minimal focus on Tsuyopon and Yukirin doesn’t help here.
3 stars - it’s fine, if incredibly underwhelming. Great art and some decent bits mean I think it has merit, just not a whole lot of it.
3,75/5 Lo mejor del tomo ha sido sin duda el primer capítulo... MIS NIÑOS AL FIN ESTÁN JUNTOS CHILLOOOOO (aunque Mari sigue siendo una borde con Mattsun pobrecito mi niño jsjsjsjs) Also, Natchan confiesa ya tus sentimientos hijo que vamos ya por el tomo 12 y se está haciendo eterno.....
I feel like I’m slightly disappointed? The story is going stale???? Anna and Nat chan are taking TOO long to be together????? They seem to be the main focus of the series (out of all the other couples) and the mangaka is making it so back and forth… which is fine for a vol or two but after twelve???! It’s boring. And I was rooting for Mattsun and Mari but I don’t like how they got together? I felt like the whole Mari and Anna situation was a bit melodramatic and then throw in Mattsun waiting to pounce right after…and it’s just not what I expected. Plus, Mari is still too mean to him!!!!
Mattsun and Mari? Yay! ✧ * 。 \(◍•ᴗ•◍)/ 。* ✧
Natsuki and Anna? Omg...why?? ""(~_~メ)
It's telling, at the end of the volume in the favorite character poll, that Natsuki and Anna both came behind other characters. They're still the mains, right?
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Right?
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And it's worth keeping in mind that these past few volumes contain years worth of material. That's how long it's been since we've seen any noticable or notable story for Yukirin and Tsuyopon.
Nach wie vor schöne Geschichte über Freundschaft und verschiedensten Blickwinkeln auf das Thema "Liebe und Beziehungen" - immer mal wieder Alltagsphilosophie eingeflochten. Mag die Reihe immer noch sehr gern.