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虹色デイズ [Nijiiro Days] #2
Rainbow Days, Vol. 2
Natsuki, Tomoya, and Tsuyoshi make progress in their respective romances. A girl confesses her feelings to the recently dumped Keiichi, but is she prepared for his role-playing proclivities?
184 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 22, 2012
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November 22, 2020
○ Il mio preferito Tsuyoshi Naoe senza ombra di dubbio. Magari può sembrare strano ma è così.
○ Questo è (stato) il mio primo shoujo dal punto di vista di un ragazzo.
○ Nonostante adori Tsuyoshi mi piace anche come si evolverà la storia tra Matsunaga e la donna-sputo o cammello nell'anime.
○ Questo è (stato) il mio primo shoujo dal punto di vista di un ragazzo.
○ Nonostante adori Tsuyoshi mi piace anche come si evolverà la storia tra Matsunaga e la donna-sputo o cammello nell'anime.
July 12, 2017
Band 2 hat im Vergleich zum ersten Teil noch mal ordentlich eine Schippe draufgelegt. Der Zeichenstil hat sich definitiv weiter entwickelt und die Geschichte war diesmal tiefgründiger. Inzwischen mag ich die Clique, um die es geht, echt gern und in diesem Band spielt vor allem der Alltag eine größere Rolle und dazu kriegen wir ein ganzes Kapitel nur zu den Mädels. 4,5 Sterne dafür, ich freue mich auf Band 3!
June 7, 2023
Natsuki’s moving things along just fine with Kobayakawa and she might even be okay with it! Keiichi feels like nobody understands his kink, which is probably his own fault. Then the school festival is pretty fun, plus a lot of short stories and unrelated stuff.
Brief volume results in brief synopsis. This is, literally, two chapters of actual plot plus three one-shots, one of which has absolutely nothing to do with the series in question. It’s okay, but not what I wanted, which was more of the main story.
This series is, frankly, very roguish. You know you shouldn’t like it as much as you do, but you just can’t help yourself. At least that has been my impression of it. It’s genuinely well written, if very much of its time, and has a zip to its dialogue that I haven’t felt since the delightful I’ll Win You Over, Sempai!.
The friendship between our male leads is a ton of fun and everything I said in the first volume holds true here - they are so goofy together and supportive, yet wholly unsupportive at the same time. They make such a unique team, which really comes through in the first side story.
There’s a lot of focus on Keiichi and his S&M lifestyle this time out, which is a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one side, it’s nice to see him being honest with himself about what he wants from a partner and, even while playing him for laughs, he’s not shamed by the story proper.
But, and this is the but of it all, there’s no nuance to this version of BDSM. Like, I don’t need 50 Shades of Grayscale here, and he at least screens the girl who confesses to him, but there’s being yourself and there’s being nothing but your kinks. Sure, it’s a comedy, but it could do better (or I could lighten up, maybe both).
And Keiichi is better than that, sometimes. He’s incredibly good at sports and his struggles with loneliness are the focal point of a surprisingly poignant first chapter that addresses the very real ‘my friends all have girlfriends and I don’t’ scenario.
The other big problem is Tomoya and Mari’s interactions, which are currently so vicious that I definitely think we’re being set up for the godawful ‘fixable lesbian’ trope (yes, she might be bi, yes, this may be a smokescreen, yes, this is a fluffy gag book, but it’s not how she’s portrayed). Mari is absolutely fixated on Kobayakawa, and hates guys. I’m expecting that second point to get handwaved away via Tomoya and it’s pretty irritating. Prove me wrong, manga.
Toss in some real old-school cross dressing shame and you’ve got something that definitely feels like it was written before a decade of any progress whatsoever in terms of its politics. It’s only fair you know what you’re in for. And I am more annoyed for the person who will be annoyed by it. I recognize what I’m getting into here, but I can see somebody else getting really ticked off. Yet, if you can see past all that, there’s actually a really great book buried under all that baggage.
The school festival is a desperate attempt by Natsuki to get a festival date with Kobayakawa, generally thwarted by everything that can possibly go wrong. To say nothing of Tsuyoshi’s plans with his actual girlfriend, Yukiko, which accidentally got screwed over by Natsuki before things even started.
How the Natsuki scenario plays out is genuinely sweet, with an assist from his friends, and it shows the heart this story can have when it isn’t being a gag book. Kobayakawa may be very emotionally blunted, but her heart is ridiculously on her sleeve and I really came around on her this time out. She and Natsuki are adorable together.
This is helped by the other one-shot, which is a food excursion for Kobayakawa and Mari that ends up bringing in Yukiko for an all-girls episode that shows that this story also works with just the three female leads. Yes, Anna is being ultra-possessive, but Yukiko’s high energy persona makes such a fun compliment to the others. The goofball imaginary scenarios don’t hurt either.
If there’s one thing I struggle with, it’s really good books that are incredibly hard to recommend. I think this is, by and large, a very fun little series that has a lot of potential to be even better. Yet it’s also hamstrung by some of its choices.
3 stars - if you accept the time it was written and some attitudes that it brings with it as a result, this is an easy 4 stars. But, since it’s not something I can wholeheartedly recommend, it will likely stay at 3 for its entire run.
Brief volume results in brief synopsis. This is, literally, two chapters of actual plot plus three one-shots, one of which has absolutely nothing to do with the series in question. It’s okay, but not what I wanted, which was more of the main story.
This series is, frankly, very roguish. You know you shouldn’t like it as much as you do, but you just can’t help yourself. At least that has been my impression of it. It’s genuinely well written, if very much of its time, and has a zip to its dialogue that I haven’t felt since the delightful I’ll Win You Over, Sempai!.
The friendship between our male leads is a ton of fun and everything I said in the first volume holds true here - they are so goofy together and supportive, yet wholly unsupportive at the same time. They make such a unique team, which really comes through in the first side story.
There’s a lot of focus on Keiichi and his S&M lifestyle this time out, which is a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one side, it’s nice to see him being honest with himself about what he wants from a partner and, even while playing him for laughs, he’s not shamed by the story proper.
But, and this is the but of it all, there’s no nuance to this version of BDSM. Like, I don’t need 50 Shades of Grayscale here, and he at least screens the girl who confesses to him, but there’s being yourself and there’s being nothing but your kinks. Sure, it’s a comedy, but it could do better (or I could lighten up, maybe both).
And Keiichi is better than that, sometimes. He’s incredibly good at sports and his struggles with loneliness are the focal point of a surprisingly poignant first chapter that addresses the very real ‘my friends all have girlfriends and I don’t’ scenario.
The other big problem is Tomoya and Mari’s interactions, which are currently so vicious that I definitely think we’re being set up for the godawful ‘fixable lesbian’ trope (yes, she might be bi, yes, this may be a smokescreen, yes, this is a fluffy gag book, but it’s not how she’s portrayed). Mari is absolutely fixated on Kobayakawa, and hates guys. I’m expecting that second point to get handwaved away via Tomoya and it’s pretty irritating. Prove me wrong, manga.
Toss in some real old-school cross dressing shame and you’ve got something that definitely feels like it was written before a decade of any progress whatsoever in terms of its politics. It’s only fair you know what you’re in for. And I am more annoyed for the person who will be annoyed by it. I recognize what I’m getting into here, but I can see somebody else getting really ticked off. Yet, if you can see past all that, there’s actually a really great book buried under all that baggage.
The school festival is a desperate attempt by Natsuki to get a festival date with Kobayakawa, generally thwarted by everything that can possibly go wrong. To say nothing of Tsuyoshi’s plans with his actual girlfriend, Yukiko, which accidentally got screwed over by Natsuki before things even started.
How the Natsuki scenario plays out is genuinely sweet, with an assist from his friends, and it shows the heart this story can have when it isn’t being a gag book. Kobayakawa may be very emotionally blunted, but her heart is ridiculously on her sleeve and I really came around on her this time out. She and Natsuki are adorable together.
This is helped by the other one-shot, which is a food excursion for Kobayakawa and Mari that ends up bringing in Yukiko for an all-girls episode that shows that this story also works with just the three female leads. Yes, Anna is being ultra-possessive, but Yukiko’s high energy persona makes such a fun compliment to the others. The goofball imaginary scenarios don’t hurt either.
If there’s one thing I struggle with, it’s really good books that are incredibly hard to recommend. I think this is, by and large, a very fun little series that has a lot of potential to be even better. Yet it’s also hamstrung by some of its choices.
3 stars - if you accept the time it was written and some attitudes that it brings with it as a result, this is an easy 4 stars. But, since it’s not something I can wholeheartedly recommend, it will likely stay at 3 for its entire run.
April 30, 2023
This series is fine so far though maybe a little boring as it is very generic (just with male leads) and none of the characters stand out to me. Mari is the most annoying character by far what with her unnecessary aggression and possessiveness and it's obvious that her and Natsuki will get together at some point. I dislike every page that she is on.
June 17, 2023
Mari truly ruins this series for me. Well, I also don't love the BDSM stuff, which is wildly inaccurate, but Mari just poisons the whole book every time she shows up on the page. It's a shame, because there are a lot of really fun things here otherwise.
December 11, 2016
El manga es tan bueno como el anime me estoy riendo mucho pero Maripe me sigue cayendo mal
January 31, 2023
1.5 stars rounded down.
Thanks NetGalley and Viz Media for this arc, but I really didn't like it. It was better than the first volume by a little bit (hence the half star lol), but the guy who forced himself on the one girl is still teasing her and calling her cute when he offends her, and the guy obsessed with bdsm gets asked out by a girl, but he wants to be upfront with her and asks if she likes pain and bdsm, she gets weirded out (they're in HIGH SCHOOL so no wonder) calls him a freak and runs off, then he gets all sad and his friends try to cheer him up to get him back to being a sadist as they thought he was becoming a masochist.... just weird. This was bad and I absolutely will not be reading any more of this series, or by this author.
Thanks NetGalley and Viz Media for this arc, but I really didn't like it. It was better than the first volume by a little bit (hence the half star lol), but the guy who forced himself on the one girl is still teasing her and calling her cute when he offends her, and the guy obsessed with bdsm gets asked out by a girl, but he wants to be upfront with her and asks if she likes pain and bdsm, she gets weirded out (they're in HIGH SCHOOL so no wonder) calls him a freak and runs off, then he gets all sad and his friends try to cheer him up to get him back to being a sadist as they thought he was becoming a masochist.... just weird. This was bad and I absolutely will not be reading any more of this series, or by this author.
June 1, 2025
-"Maybe I should kiss you again.
-Do it and i'll crush your crotch"
Lo que me gusta el tira y afloja de estos dos sdfghjk
La vd que salvo esto y la trama de Keiichi, un tomo muy meh y encima con más capítulos de relleno que de la historia en si -.-
-Do it and i'll crush your crotch"
Lo que me gusta el tira y afloja de estos dos sdfghjk
La vd que salvo esto y la trama de Keiichi, un tomo muy meh y encima con más capítulos de relleno que de la historia en si -.-
March 20, 2023
This was a cute volume. I liked that we got to see the characters at a school festival, those are always fun plot points. Looking forward to the next volume!
April 23, 2019
3,5
Oggettivamente, durante gli anni delle scuole superiori, la mia vita non era nemmeno lontanamente simile a quella dei protagonisti di questo manga. Ma nemmeno per sbaglio.
In questo volume vediamo come procedono le cose, a livello sentimentale e scolastico, per i quattro amici. Natsuki sembra fare dei passi avanti nel suo rapporto con Anna, mentre Matsun e Mari continuano a litigare come cane e gatto, con la seconda molto gelosa del rapporto che si sta instaurando tra la migliore amica e "la scimmietta". E poi c'è l'otaku Tsuyoshi che detesta le attività all'aria aperta e i seccanti comitati scolastici, apparentemente tranquillo nel suo rapporto con la fidanzata Yukirin. Invece, viste le sue tendenze sadiche, il povero Kei fa un po' di fatica a trovare la ragazza giusta per lui.
E poi, grazie a uno dei capitoli extra, incominciamo a vedere anche i primi passi dell'amicizia tra le tre ragazze - Anna, Mari e Yukirin - che farà così da contraltare al legame tra i quattro protagonisti.
Oggettivamente, durante gli anni delle scuole superiori, la mia vita non era nemmeno lontanamente simile a quella dei protagonisti di questo manga. Ma nemmeno per sbaglio.
In questo volume vediamo come procedono le cose, a livello sentimentale e scolastico, per i quattro amici. Natsuki sembra fare dei passi avanti nel suo rapporto con Anna, mentre Matsun e Mari continuano a litigare come cane e gatto, con la seconda molto gelosa del rapporto che si sta instaurando tra la migliore amica e "la scimmietta". E poi c'è l'otaku Tsuyoshi che detesta le attività all'aria aperta e i seccanti comitati scolastici, apparentemente tranquillo nel suo rapporto con la fidanzata Yukirin. Invece, viste le sue tendenze sadiche, il povero Kei fa un po' di fatica a trovare la ragazza giusta per lui.
E poi, grazie a uno dei capitoli extra, incominciamo a vedere anche i primi passi dell'amicizia tra le tre ragazze - Anna, Mari e Yukirin - che farà così da contraltare al legame tra i quattro protagonisti.
February 19, 2023
This volume is mostly slice of life of high school boys with some over the top character quirks. It's a strange volume 2, though, in that it doesn't focus entirely on the main story. As the author describes in the back matter, there are shorts focusing on the guys, the girls, and then an unrelated story about a college freshman. The main story furthers Natchan's "relationship" with Anna, and, in Rainbow Girls, we get to see Spit Girl grow a tiny bit. It's nice to see Anna evaluating her feelings and the boys supporting each other even if they're mad at each other. Over all, I look forward to seeing more from this series, but I wish this was a fully fledged volume with less filler content.
March 29, 2023
I enjoyed Rainbow Days v1 and was excited to continue the series. I was happy to see a little bit of relationship growth in our characters, but for the most part this volume felt like a bunch of filler. Now I love a shoujo or slice of life about not much of nothing as much as the next person (ie Horimiya or Sasaki and Miyano) but to have a volume like that so early in the series when much more content could have been explored leaves me a bit nervous for the future.
Thanks to #NetGalley & #vizmedia for an e-copy #RainbowDaysVol2 by Minami Mizuno to read and review.
Thanks to #NetGalley & #vizmedia for an e-copy #RainbowDaysVol2 by Minami Mizuno to read and review.
March 7, 2023
*ARC provided by NetGalley in return for an honest review*
Let me start off by saying, it was good... but I really wanted more after the first volume. I felt like the first volume left off with a lot of great questions, and none of them were answered. On the opposite end, we did get Rainbow Girls which was fun. Overall, I'm holdin out for volume three, but I fear my expectations are dropping faster than Ohio's temperatures.
Let me start off by saying, it was good... but I really wanted more after the first volume. I felt like the first volume left off with a lot of great questions, and none of them were answered. On the opposite end, we did get Rainbow Girls which was fun. Overall, I'm holdin out for volume three, but I fear my expectations are dropping faster than Ohio's temperatures.
February 8, 2025
Totally enjoying their adventures! The school festival was super fun and Natsuki was able to see Anna at least for some time, Anna might be starting to have feelings for Natsuki even if she doesn’t realize it yet. I love all of them and their personalities, I enjoyed the scene where Yukirin went and talked with Anna and Mari, I think they’ll become best friends
February 11, 2023
I really love this series so much already. I just need to remember the 4 boys’ names!!!! LOL
Also, I’m so shipping Matsun and Mari (spit girl lol). I love the enemies to lovers trope and the whole playboy finally falls in love trope!!!!! So overplayed but I LOVE it.
Also, I’m so shipping Matsun and Mari (spit girl lol). I love the enemies to lovers trope and the whole playboy finally falls in love trope!!!!! So overplayed but I LOVE it.
December 10, 2017
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jejejejejjee ese grupo de amigos me hace reír mucho--!
jejejejejjee ese grupo de amigos me hace reír mucho--!
February 24, 2018
Ein wirklich sehr schöner Band^^ Komme immer besser in die Story rein.
September 30, 2018
Ist ganz niedlich für zwischendurch, aber nicht so toll wie der erste Band.
January 18, 2019
Les amitiés se développent et l'intrigue prend de plus en plus forme.
September 30, 2019
Out of the four chapters of this volume, only the two were not depicted in the anime. And they weren't that bad.
January 7, 2021
Molto carino anche questo secondo volume! Pian piano si conosce il gruppo di amici... le ragazze... molto interessante
March 22, 2023
Enjoyed the story more and the adaptation was much better!
April 29, 2023
It was cute! I’m enjoying the series. My favorite character is most probably the S&M guy haha.
May 15, 2023
I need to see who's gonna end up with Kei.
May 25, 2023
Love it. Recommend this so much.
July 23, 2023
3.5☆
just cute!
just cute!
October 3, 2023
This was decent, I didn't love it and I didn't hate it. The last chapter had a really good coming of age story about a college student, and I really enjoyed that. I found it really relatable.
October 25, 2023
Nisiquiera lo termine, demasiado aburrido
Me gusta más el anime👌
Me gusta más el anime👌
November 9, 2023
1.5 stars.
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