All the respect in the world to Kenjiro Hata, who can seemingly just effortlessly toss out a book like this where I go, ‘huh, that was two hundred pages’ and basically nothing really happened. It’s like a manga saltine made out of Seinfeld.
Nasa and Tsukasa act bashful and flirty, again, the captions make jokes, again, nothing really happens, again. Sometimes a chapter gets dedicated to a side character or two whom I can barely remember.
I think my favourite in this one is such a chapter, where a girl who doesn’t understand love is running through a list of dating tropes with a guy who likes her very much and they all apply to the situation they’re in. The repetition of the phrase ‘stylish cafe’ is the best joke in the book.
Seriously, saltines. But I do like saltines, they just taste really same-y after a bit. So it goes here; the little moments are often what make a book, but this is all little moments and no book. It’s a broad swath of characters who all have basically one joke, but the cast density is designed to keep it from being too repetitious.
The camping section, leading up to the 100th chapter, manages to bring together most of the characters and is pretty much what you’d expect, although I love that Tsukasa shows that just because you don’t want to do something that doesn’t mean you can’t do something.
Chapter 99 is a gentle reflection on the absurdity of the book’s folklore-adjacent premise, layered on with some of the romance between Nasa and Tsukasa that makes the title as a whole work a bit better than it honestly should.
Then the book ends, slipping straight off my eyeballs and out of my mind until the next volume, which I will invariably buy and have the exact same experience as I did with the last five volumes at least. I apologize if I made this sentiment previously, but it’s in good company.
3 stars - a finite concept stretched to infinite proportions. I don’t dislike this series, but if I ever miss a volume, I genuinely wonder if I’d care enough to catch up.
After getting torn asunder in Elden Ring for the umpteenth time, this was the simple, light hearted romp that I needed. This series continues to be so fun and cute and even though nothing major happens, it continues to be compelling. This is slice of life done right. Now it's back to those horrible archers that are ready to take me out the moment I step out into the open. That is, if the giant bear doesn't get me first.
Fly Me to the Moon's tenth volume offers more of the same low-stakes but engaging romance between two teenage newlyweds. In this volume, Nasa and Tsukasa try their hand at hiking, resulting in an exhausting misadventure up the side of a mountain. In the interest of forwarding a plot and creating some stakes, Nasa starts having dreams of meeting Tsukasa in the past, wondering if their encounter was more than chance. There are also some silly subplots with friend Kaname ordered a classmate to model for her art class, and Nasa and Tsukasa trying to offer romantic advice to Nasa's love-struck teacher. This volume boasts the series' usual share of laughs and cuteness, although there's an affecting chapter where Tsukasa finally tells Nasa why she married him and how much their relationship means to her. Fly Me to the Moon is nothing deep or profound, but its romantic comedy sans the usual tropes and ordinarily manga-mandated ecchi content, with its reminder that the work you put into a relationship matters more than feelings of starstruck romance, is easy to like and hard to put down.
Demorou mais finalmente chegou... Mais já terminei... Lá voltamos a espera para ter os outros que falta... 🤣🤣
Sobre o manga é impossível não gostar, tudo nele e divertido, delicioso, engraçado e muito bem trabalhado, da história aos personagens, os desenhos são incríveis... Amoooo... 🥰🥰
We get to go on a big hiking trip, which gets to show off our favorite girl doing NINJA moves...WHAT? That's right, there's a lot more to her than we ever expected. Also Nasa tries to make the moves after being egged on by the little sister, and damn it, he's going to go for it.
As always, fun, enjoyable, sweet, cute, are all the words that come to mind. I love this series.
We got some plot development, we got characters from all over, and we have a camping trip! Loved this volume, can’t wait to see more of Tsukasa’s past come to light.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Nasa realizes he is gaining a bit of weight from being happily fed and eating with Tsukasa, but she hasn’t gained an ounce he’s determined to shed the pounds and thinks he can jump back into his high school workout routines easily, but he realizes very quickly, he’s out of shape. Later, Kaname convinced a boy at her school to pose nude for her upcoming art project, but in true Kaname fashion, it’s mostly a ruse. Nasa convinces Tsukasa to go camping to stargaze, and the entire crew invites themselves or gets invited. They start off with an invigorating hike, setting up the glamping site, and Nasa even gets lost! Lucky for him, Tsukasa can always find him at night.
I'm glad we're getting a few more side characters because the horn-dog who Kaname is getting a little bit old. Between Kaname and her sister, there are enough jokes about the newlyweds and cuddling. Nasa's cousin is an interesting foil - he's a bad boy who seems like a Yakuza, but he's also a little clueless, so having him along is fun. The camping trip was a good note to end on, and I hope there are finally some reveals headed our way about Tsukasa's mysterious past.
There is some boob squeezing over clothing, and a lot of sexual innuendos, but this is still a slow burn, fairly chaste, love story where the two leads barely snuggle in bed, and everything's generally off-panel.