Again!! 4

Again!! #4

by Mitsurou Kubo

WOUNDED PRIDE It’s day two of the joint practice between the ouendan and the cheerleading club. Having been made ouendan captain for a day, Kinichiro takes the drastic action of ordering Usami to perform the cheerleaders’ choreography, which supercharges the practice session, but at the price of Usami’s rage. The once-unified club descends into arguing, and once everybody’s cards are on the table, will they be able to recover at all?

Genres: Manga, Time Travel, Sports, Teen, Slice Of Life, Fantasy, Drama

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2012

About the author

Mitsurou Kubo (久保 ミツロウ, Kubo Mitsurō) is a Japanese manga artist, writer, and radio personality born in Sasebo in 1975. She is known for writing on Yuri!!! on Ice, an anime series co-created with Sayo Yamamoto. Two of her manga have been released in English; Moteki by Vertical and Again!! by Kodansha USA. She and Mineko Nomachi have a radio program called Mitsurou Kubo and Mineko Nomachi's All Night Nippon.

Reviews

[Amber]

This was my favorite volume so far! It really dived into the time travel aspect, which is my favorite part about this series. Excited to get into the next one!

[Mir]

Finally, they are doing something with the time-slip setup. But still the plot isn't that interesting.

[Rod Brown]

After seeming to settle into a high school series about school clubs, this volume abruptly brings the time travel aspect back to the forefront as one of the displaced teens makes an unwelcome return to the present. That this upset me so much demonstrates that this series has grown on me incredibly. The art is fantastic, and I love the grouchy-but-sympathetic characters.

[haven ⋄ f (hiatus)]

This took an unexpected twist. I was not expecting it to happen, nor the events afterwards. This series seems to be aiming for humor and realism in each of the characters and the story.

I’m a little confused about Hiro-kun. Is he dating Aki? Are they just friends and she’s overexaggerating the relationship? No idea. I hope that gets explained.

Overall, a fairly solid series.

[Mary]

I'm enjoying this strange time travel story (and I really do hope that they can change the past).

[Dorcas]

Blurring the line between worlds. These are some hardy folk to survive falling down stairs so often.

[Shae]

This volume was definitely interesting in many ways! Makes me want volume 5 in my hands!

[Ashley]

The best volume yet! Glad to see the time travel element being brought back into play!

[Casey]

While I generally like time travel, and this series is based around that, the bit of it from this particular book just didn't do it for me. Aside from that -- solid book. I'm enjoying how the story is moving in general how the characters do not remain static and it is actually fairly interesting. I hope the practice game ends up being a big event. I had never heard of Again!! until our library got it and I am glad they did.

Verdict: An interesting series that might just be worth your time. Check it out.

[Danielle Booey]

This series is just entertaining. I will admit to being pretty surprised when Imamura starts time traveling again in this volume and when it turns out that all his hard work in the past isn't changing his future. I did not see that coming.

Lots of familiar hijinks here with the gang. One of my favorite is when Imamura scares a jerk away from Reo in the future when she has no idea who he is.

I'm looking forward to the next volume.

[Jake Kropik]

3.5/5 Stars.

I’m surprised, this is my favorite volume so far. It started off weak, and I actually considered giving up on the series, but then the second half came through. Slight spoiler? But this volume follows imamura going back to present day after another accident, while fujieda is still stuck in the do over world. It may have started off weak, but the story definitely strengthened and became more complex.

[Katt Hansen]

Kinichiro is in charge? He needs everyone to start thinking differently so what does he do? He challenges the ouendan to use the cheerleader moves, and the cheerleaders to take on ouendan moves. Whew, what a mixup. What did we learn? Hopefully something or another! Ha!

Surprise twist at the end though, with Kinichiro injured when he falls downstairs. No idea where this is going next...

Not my favorite book in the series, but I'm going to hang in there and see where this is going.

[Abigail]

I liked that the time traveling made a reappearance. I'm fairly sure by the end of this Imamura us gonna suffer serious head trauma if he keeps time traveling. I also enjoyed that it hade immediate consequences in the do-over world.

[kat]

This volume was so good!!! I can’t wait to get the next volumes in the mail. I’m dying to see where this goes. Lots of fantastic character artwork in this volume – the representations of expression were really kickass. Great flow and use of space.

[Gabe]

A good twist is added to the time-travel gimmick. Really gets the story out of the rut that was starting to form.

[Kathleen]

Who can be trusted? No matter your answer, you may be proven wrong!

[Mariah]

3.5 Stars

Well things got even more interesting and a touch confusing as well. What in the world is going on?

[L. Luck]

NLROMV

[Joshua]

OKAY IT'S GETTING JUICY I'M IN LOVE

[Chloe McGenn]

I already loved this series but this volume really ramps up the story.

[Mohammad Musadiq Laghari]

Very beautiful series, it's so funny and quirky and even if sometimes the overall plot doesn't progress the ongoing character interactions are so cool to miss out on. Very cool characters too

[Kurtis Burkhardt]

Not the greatest manga, the art and characters were pretty cool but I thought the story was soo boring😴👌❤️

[Julie]

This series is still going strong and I'm dying to get back to my library to check out the rest!!

[Olivia P]

This is the fourth volume and this storyline is still fresh. Happy to have given this series a try.

[DonutKnow]

I love this series- especially Imamura. He's cool but he's awkward but also straight-forward, goofy and kind. I love him 😍