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If You Could See Love Manga #2
If You Could See Love Vol. 2
Despite Mei’s best attempts to avoid love, she finds herself the target of not one, but two arrows of love—and to make things more complicated, both her admirers are her dorm roommates! Although she cares deeply for them, Mei’s clueless about what exactly romantic love entails, much less whether she’s willing to put herself through all its trials and tribulations…but perhaps her new role as the school love advisor will shed some light!
190 pages, ebook
Published March 22, 2022
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March 27, 2022
Mei gets a new role as the student council’s love advisor, which ends up putting her into all sorts of situations. Rinna and Sayo have a moment of their own, which leaves their crushes on Mei… where, exactly? Then again, the solution to this problem might come from a very unexpected source.
Another one of those volumes that leads weak and ends strong. Although the scene where Mei is roped into her new ‘love advisor’ role is quite funny, this first story is a overall bit of a shrug, featuring two people of varying social class who love one another.
Minus Rinna’s extreme overreaction to Mei pretending to be somebody’s girlfriend, this doesn’t seem to be a particularly taxing effort for anybody involved, though the author clearly wants it to feel like it. Best excuse for maid cosplay I’ve seen in a while though.
Subsequent efforts by Mei are much more interesting, as the story starts to juggle her requests with the wildly awkward situation she and her friends are in. There’s a lot of repressed emotion and holding things back that threatens to wrench apart a really strong trio.
The second story is a particularly good look at missing your chances that turns out to be a good lesson for literally everybody - Mei learns that her ability isn’t as awful as she thought, her friends learn about honesty, and the requester, well, you’ll see. It’s got quite a bit of heart to it.
Then Rinna and Sayo accidentally kiss and they’ve been really bonding this whole time anyway, so wheels slowly start turning, but what does that mean for their love for Mei? Can new love trump old crushes?
The answer, shockingly, might come from a visit Mei has with her teachers, where the story decides to go there in terms of pointing out that non-traditional relationships really do exist (probably not this adorably, most times, but A for effort).
This is a wild swing of the type I haven’t seen since Kiss & White Lily For My Dearest Girl and, while I don’t know that this is the likeliest path a bunch of high schoolers might embark on (to say nothing of the ‘only in yuri’ way this all comes together), it’s a nice change to see a story trying something new when it comes to messy situations and the denouement of this one is satisfying.
While the vast majority of the story is in good, not great, territory for me, it once again falls to those silly arrows to turn things up a notch. They’re a narrative conceit that I really like because they’re consistently used just right.
There is a scene towards the end where Mei reaches out and literally takes hold of an arrow, a very charming gesture of affection and acceptance of somebody else’s feelings, that might not quite fit with the established arrow protocol (such as it is), but is so wonderfully perfect in that moment that it is genuinely bumping my ranking up.
That’s the thing - moment to moment this is a perfectly okay title that tends to operate at the lower end of good; the writing is competent but rarely truly excellent. But in those scattered moments, when it truly nails them, it becomes so much more.
4 stars - 3 to 3.5 for story, then that one moment was like a brief shot of 5 star greatness, so we’ll just split the difference. That may all seem incredibly messy, but, if anything, that’s really appropriate for this particular title.
Another one of those volumes that leads weak and ends strong. Although the scene where Mei is roped into her new ‘love advisor’ role is quite funny, this first story is a overall bit of a shrug, featuring two people of varying social class who love one another.
Minus Rinna’s extreme overreaction to Mei pretending to be somebody’s girlfriend, this doesn’t seem to be a particularly taxing effort for anybody involved, though the author clearly wants it to feel like it. Best excuse for maid cosplay I’ve seen in a while though.
Subsequent efforts by Mei are much more interesting, as the story starts to juggle her requests with the wildly awkward situation she and her friends are in. There’s a lot of repressed emotion and holding things back that threatens to wrench apart a really strong trio.
The second story is a particularly good look at missing your chances that turns out to be a good lesson for literally everybody - Mei learns that her ability isn’t as awful as she thought, her friends learn about honesty, and the requester, well, you’ll see. It’s got quite a bit of heart to it.
Then Rinna and Sayo accidentally kiss and they’ve been really bonding this whole time anyway, so wheels slowly start turning, but what does that mean for their love for Mei? Can new love trump old crushes?
The answer, shockingly, might come from a visit Mei has with her teachers, where the story decides to go there in terms of pointing out that non-traditional relationships really do exist (probably not this adorably, most times, but A for effort).
This is a wild swing of the type I haven’t seen since Kiss & White Lily For My Dearest Girl and, while I don’t know that this is the likeliest path a bunch of high schoolers might embark on (to say nothing of the ‘only in yuri’ way this all comes together), it’s a nice change to see a story trying something new when it comes to messy situations and the denouement of this one is satisfying.
While the vast majority of the story is in good, not great, territory for me, it once again falls to those silly arrows to turn things up a notch. They’re a narrative conceit that I really like because they’re consistently used just right.
There is a scene towards the end where Mei reaches out and literally takes hold of an arrow, a very charming gesture of affection and acceptance of somebody else’s feelings, that might not quite fit with the established arrow protocol (such as it is), but is so wonderfully perfect in that moment that it is genuinely bumping my ranking up.
That’s the thing - moment to moment this is a perfectly okay title that tends to operate at the lower end of good; the writing is competent but rarely truly excellent. But in those scattered moments, when it truly nails them, it becomes so much more.
4 stars - 3 to 3.5 for story, then that one moment was like a brief shot of 5 star greatness, so we’ll just split the difference. That may all seem incredibly messy, but, if anything, that’s really appropriate for this particular title.
January 19, 2024
love the new dynamics being explored, there’s even polyamory!
January 7, 2024
New characters, new dynamics being explored. Very cute manga, sad there’s only one volume left.
September 14, 2023
Tons of fantastic-to-follow character growth in this one!
I’m absolutely loving Mei’s explorations/discovery of different forms and expressions of love as a newly appointed ‘love advisor,’ and can’t wait to dive into the next part. Honestly, I’m already kind of lamenting there’s only 1 volume left…
My rating got raised a bit *just* because of how surprised I was to see the portrayal of a healthy polyamorous (lesbian) relationship, and for seemingly introducing polyamory as a potentially valid solution to a love triangle that looks to be forming. Holy shit, right?
I’m absolutely loving Mei’s explorations/discovery of different forms and expressions of love as a newly appointed ‘love advisor,’ and can’t wait to dive into the next part. Honestly, I’m already kind of lamenting there’s only 1 volume left…
My rating got raised a bit *just* because of how surprised I was to see the portrayal of a healthy polyamorous (lesbian) relationship, and for seemingly introducing polyamory as a potentially valid solution to a love triangle that looks to be forming. Holy shit, right?
June 24, 2025
The second volume and it was so cute! Mei is using her love skills (or well the arrows she sees) to help out people per request of the president and I loved it! Loved seeing different couples, see three people happy who started like Mei and her two friends/love interests, get to see the school and fun things, and also LOTS of development between Rinna, Mei, and Sayo and I was just delighted! I really want the three of them to start dating!
December 1, 2022
More of a 3.5 star rating;
Some new characters got introduced, a few problems for easily fixed, and the main 3 girls got made some progress both in their different dynamics and in relation to their emotions. I really liked that there was a very cute adult ploy-lesbian couple that’s somewhat connected to the girls’s school. All in all, I’m curious to see how things end up in this final volume.
Some new characters got introduced, a few problems for easily fixed, and the main 3 girls got made some progress both in their different dynamics and in relation to their emotions. I really liked that there was a very cute adult ploy-lesbian couple that’s somewhat connected to the girls’s school. All in all, I’m curious to see how things end up in this final volume.
April 15, 2022
Really a cute story with cute girls.
Mei-chan has become the school's "love guru" at the behest of the school president. She and her two roomies help several love struck people, and Mei learns a BIG secret about 2 of her school sensei!
Mei-chan has become the school's "love guru" at the behest of the school president. She and her two roomies help several love struck people, and Mei learns a BIG secret about 2 of her school sensei!
June 16, 2022
More drama than the last volume, but still good. I'm very curious to see how this series is going to end, cuz I see at least 3-4 different routes it can go. I think the next volume's the last, which is a little sad that this series is so short, but I'm looking forward to the conclusion.
September 20, 2024
Rolling my eyes at the scene where two people accidentally kiss as if that's a thing that makes sense.
But on another note, I think it's p rad that there is a polycule of side characters. More genuine polya rep in manga is good to see.
But on another note, I think it's p rad that there is a polycule of side characters. More genuine polya rep in manga is good to see.
December 27, 2022
adorable follow up to the first book
Great follow up to the first book! Love the bit about the teachers! Super interesting! Excited for the final book
Great follow up to the first book! Love the bit about the teachers! Super interesting! Excited for the final book
April 5, 2022
最近看的百合作品中，最討厭的其中一本輕小說是他寫的
而我很喜歡的本書的故事，也是他寫的
這樣我要怎麼猜《我怎麼可能成為你的戀人，不行不行！（※不是不可能！？）（暫譯）》好不好看啊
而我很喜歡的本書的故事，也是他寫的
這樣我要怎麼猜《我怎麼可能成為你的戀人，不行不行！（※不是不可能！？）（暫譯）》好不好看啊
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