It’s cute.
Every volume of this gets harder and harder to review. Nasa and Tsukasa spend a bunch of time together, they act exceptionally sweet around one another, other people pop in and out to say other things.
It really says something about the way our leads work together that this book just keeps on going while mostly focusing on such slight minutiae in the lives of its characters.
And it’s not like the mangaka is bad at this - there’s a lovely bookend that ties the first story, about going to a festival (also probably the most fun story in the whole volume), to one of the later stories in a very simple, yet very sweet, statement on love. It might seem overly sentimental, but so am I, so I appreciated it.
There’s just nothing here in nine volumes that wasn’t necessarily apparent after six or seven. And if you’re here for that, like myself, you’ll be fine. Watching Nasa and Tsukasa bashfully turn one another on like mad is still as enjoyable now as it always has been - it’s nice to have a manga couple who aren’t utterly wholesome.
But if you don’t like this story, I guarantee this volume won’t be the one that suddenly changes your mind on it.
3 stars - I don’t think this series is any kind of revelation, but it’s reliably consistent to the point of infuriating me when writing reviews, but, as a reader, I couldn’t be happier with. Nothing stellar, just good, which is, really, perfectly okay.