Mega-clutz Seiji Utsumi has been satisfied just to watch from afar his beloved "tennis court girl," Shou-sempai. But once his classmate Yuki Kurokawa finds out, Seiji's love begins to progress quickly!! Can this cowardly boy reach the "good ending"?! A bible for success in love for all men who want to understand the feminine spirit!
I’m being lenient with the grading - the dialogue doesn’t exactly set the world on fire here - but I did think this was a genuinely better volume than the first one.
We deal with the very real fallout of what happens when two people aren’t on the same page (or are on the same page and then one of them ends up accidentally destroying the other) and Utsumi is actually growing up a little, which is good to see as he was pretty pathetic at the start of the series.
I really wouldn’t call this a comedy, but it does have some fun moments - after Eri’s parts in the first part of the book (easily the worst section of this volume), she really turns around to be a fun character.
Either way, there’s still lots of high drama yet to come (what the hell is it with manga and falling for your relatives?), including a couple panels that suggest Kurokawa’s story is almost certainly going to need a trigger warning.
My initial supposition about where this would go was well and truly wrong, so I’m interested to see where it heads next.
I will admit. I am getting a little annoyed with the main character. There is a fine line between adorably shy and slightly annoying. True, things aren't exactly going his way, but the cuteness has worn off a little. Can he please make some progress soon?