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Futaribeya #8
Futaribeya: A Room for Two, Volume 8
Sakurako and Kasumi live together in a one-room apartment, share a bed, and have always been together since they first met as roommates in their freshman year of high school. Now, they've finally reached their final year of college. As their carefree school days come to an end, it's time to face the job market as adults! Will their relationship have to change when they're both working?
160 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 24, 2020
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February 22, 2023
Kasumi is literally my spirit animal
May 6, 2021
Kasumi and Sakurako continue to make their way through university with the prospect of adulthood truly looming large before them. Are they going to sweat finding jobs or is the greatest threat in this volume likely to be mixing up three different types of batter?
As you might guess, it’s the second one. Manga’s most repetitive series is back once again to do the same thing it has done since the beginning and will, hopefully, continue to do unto infinity.
I do not know why I have such a soft spot for Futaribeya. It is the same book every single time with a little change in scenery and it’s not even that hilarious. But I love it, I truly do. After a rough start to my reading week I turned to this because I knew it would be just what I needed.
Kasumi is still basically a stomach with legs and Sakurako is head over heels for her, which Kasumi keeps to a dull roar lest her roomie go completely out of control. Sprinkle with the other interesting pairings, I still think the free-spirited Moka is a cut above most of the others (and the painfully shy Yukari), and you have a cozy, predictable romp.
This book’s more of a romance between two asexual people than it is a yuri, at this point. For all her gushing and Kasumi’s endless acceptance, there hasn’t been any smouldering anything in this series for eight volumes minus one very understated kiss.
I’m not saying that’s the intent, I’m certain it’s not, but this is a book about two people who love one another, very much in their own way, and don’t have the faintest whiff of sexual tension between them (Sakurako’s ridiculous overtures are certainly heartfelt but they never feel exceptionally lustful), despite sleeping in the same bed.
And that’s really okay. When Sakurako points out that she and Kasumi aren’t actually dating early on and they just love being together, it’s like, yeah, you’d need a block of dynamite to come between those two and even then I wouldn’t put my money on the dynamite. Some things, as Moka points out, don’t need a label.
And lest we think otherwise, Kasumi is certainly very into Sakurako, she just balances her out with her quiet, infrequent notations of just how much Sakurako means to her. Given how amped up Sakurako gets, I feel this is the correct response.
As usual, the big downfall of this series is how much every volume of this series resembles the previous one (if you tried to binge all this, it’s like looking into the void and then the void looks into you and it turns out it’s cute).
I dinged something else just this week for relying on former plots and stories, but with Futaribeya it isn’t trying to be anything more than fluff and by the time you reach, say, volume 3, you realize that you’re either okay with its particular content or find it too same-y to endure. Here in volume 8, well, I think you know where I fall.
3 stars. Another great instalment of the same old same, featuring a bunch of characters I like, most of whom have the sexual appetite of an order of Peking duck. It’s one of the quirkiest relationships in manga and the comfiest of comfort food. Adjust based on your tolerance for repetition.
As you might guess, it’s the second one. Manga’s most repetitive series is back once again to do the same thing it has done since the beginning and will, hopefully, continue to do unto infinity.
I do not know why I have such a soft spot for Futaribeya. It is the same book every single time with a little change in scenery and it’s not even that hilarious. But I love it, I truly do. After a rough start to my reading week I turned to this because I knew it would be just what I needed.
Kasumi is still basically a stomach with legs and Sakurako is head over heels for her, which Kasumi keeps to a dull roar lest her roomie go completely out of control. Sprinkle with the other interesting pairings, I still think the free-spirited Moka is a cut above most of the others (and the painfully shy Yukari), and you have a cozy, predictable romp.
This book’s more of a romance between two asexual people than it is a yuri, at this point. For all her gushing and Kasumi’s endless acceptance, there hasn’t been any smouldering anything in this series for eight volumes minus one very understated kiss.
I’m not saying that’s the intent, I’m certain it’s not, but this is a book about two people who love one another, very much in their own way, and don’t have the faintest whiff of sexual tension between them (Sakurako’s ridiculous overtures are certainly heartfelt but they never feel exceptionally lustful), despite sleeping in the same bed.
And that’s really okay. When Sakurako points out that she and Kasumi aren’t actually dating early on and they just love being together, it’s like, yeah, you’d need a block of dynamite to come between those two and even then I wouldn’t put my money on the dynamite. Some things, as Moka points out, don’t need a label.
And lest we think otherwise, Kasumi is certainly very into Sakurako, she just balances her out with her quiet, infrequent notations of just how much Sakurako means to her. Given how amped up Sakurako gets, I feel this is the correct response.
As usual, the big downfall of this series is how much every volume of this series resembles the previous one (if you tried to binge all this, it’s like looking into the void and then the void looks into you and it turns out it’s cute).
I dinged something else just this week for relying on former plots and stories, but with Futaribeya it isn’t trying to be anything more than fluff and by the time you reach, say, volume 3, you realize that you’re either okay with its particular content or find it too same-y to endure. Here in volume 8, well, I think you know where I fall.
3 stars. Another great instalment of the same old same, featuring a bunch of characters I like, most of whom have the sexual appetite of an order of Peking duck. It’s one of the quirkiest relationships in manga and the comfiest of comfort food. Adjust based on your tolerance for repetition.
June 11, 2021
Another super adorable volume to this cute series.
My only issue is Kasumi starts the volume as a brunette, which can be rather confusing, seeing as she's normally a blonde. It's been such a long time since the previous volume was released that readers may not remember Kasumi dyed her hair dark for her internship. Theres no real explanation of it in the story, nor is there any explanation when a few chapters in, she's suddenly blonde again. Otherwise, this was a great read. The are-they-or-aren't-they a real couple (or just friends with benefits?) Is once again teased along, with different parts of the volume implying that Kasumi and Sakurako are just "really close" friends, yet others strongly suggesting there's a lot more than just a simple friendship between these two (like the fact the two girls usually sleep together, arm-in-arm, with Sakurako having her face buried in Kasumi's rather impressive chest. Plus there's several other either actual Yuri couples, or girls that are VERY close to it, like Sakurako's younger sister Hinako and her BFF Fujiho (who implies she wants to be more than just friends with Hinako + the matter of their matching choker collars...) Regardless, this is such a wonderfully sweet (mostly) 4-Koma story. If you like cute girls who don't have any drama, but do have a lot of fun, this is the series for you!
My only issue is Kasumi starts the volume as a brunette, which can be rather confusing, seeing as she's normally a blonde. It's been such a long time since the previous volume was released that readers may not remember Kasumi dyed her hair dark for her internship. Theres no real explanation of it in the story, nor is there any explanation when a few chapters in, she's suddenly blonde again. Otherwise, this was a great read. The are-they-or-aren't-they a real couple (or just friends with benefits?) Is once again teased along, with different parts of the volume implying that Kasumi and Sakurako are just "really close" friends, yet others strongly suggesting there's a lot more than just a simple friendship between these two (like the fact the two girls usually sleep together, arm-in-arm, with Sakurako having her face buried in Kasumi's rather impressive chest. Plus there's several other either actual Yuri couples, or girls that are VERY close to it, like Sakurako's younger sister Hinako and her BFF Fujiho (who implies she wants to be more than just friends with Hinako + the matter of their matching choker collars...) Regardless, this is such a wonderfully sweet (mostly) 4-Koma story. If you like cute girls who don't have any drama, but do have a lot of fun, this is the series for you!
March 14, 2024
3 stars. One more volume left and then I’m done! This series is just so repetitive and it keeps going back on things that previous volumes established. I’m just not having fun with it anymore so I’m so excited to almost done with it.
January 23, 2022
Fun, but want to know more!
I love this series and I really hope it continues. Each of the characters have interesting stories, personalities, and so much more.
I love this series and I really hope it continues. Each of the characters have interesting stories, personalities, and so much more.
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