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となりの信國さんは俺のことが好きな気がする #3
I Get the Feeling That Nobukuni-san Likes Me Vol. 3
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Nobukuni-san’s friendship with the new transfer student, Sasaki-kun, has been slowly growing over the course of their first semester in high school. With help from Meeko, the famous love guru, things seem to be going well with the two lovebirds, despite their inability to say how they feel out loud. But will a thoughtless remark from a couple of mean kids crush their budding relationship before it has the chance to bloom?
Nobukuni-san’s friendship with the new transfer student, Sasaki-kun, has been slowly growing over the course of their first semester in high school. With help from Meeko, the famous love guru, things seem to be going well with the two lovebirds, despite their inability to say how they feel out loud. But will a thoughtless remark from a couple of mean kids crush their budding relationship before it has the chance to bloom?
160 pages, Paperback
First published May 27, 2022
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July 12, 2023
Nobukuni is still on the advice column train and working on her indirect kisses and praise and general vocabulary. But when a personal crisis threatens to ruin everything, is there anybody out there who can help her?
This series is, slowly but surely, getting better as it goes. It definitely has too many peaks and troughs, some of the chapters here are deadly mediocre or just inexplicable (the tugging one is laborious even), but those peaks are definitely getting better.
Let’s get into the good - I am half tempted to give this volume five stars for the gym class chapter alone, which might be the funniest gym class I’ve ever read in a manga. It gets these hormonal time bombs just right.
It also gives Sasaki some much needed character development, but the real draw comes when the girls notice Nobukuni watching Sasaki and start watching the boys, who then notice the girls watching them.
Not only does this offer fan service of a whole other sort, the boys completely go to pieces trying to show off for the girls and the whole thing devolves into absolute chaos as everybody jockeys for position with the females. Ludicrously believable.
There’s also a growing emphasis that maybe just being yourself is better than letting some magazine dictate your life choices. We’ve known for a long time that Nobukuni is her own worst enemy due to her lousy self-confidence, but this volume really drives it home.
The fatphobia chapter is brilliant, trust me here, because it not-so-subtly points out that magazines are soulless and do not know you. But Nobukuni decides she needs that beach body and makes herself utterly miserable on her own behalf. At no point is she body shamed.
So this turns out to be far more dietphobic, as we see Nobukuni not only fail hard, but the nonsensical contortions she goes through to justify her eating and her food ranking system are just flat-out funny. All in service of Sasaki telling her that she’s great just as she is.
This comes up again when Nobukuni tries to use ‘five simple sayings’ to make up for her perceived lack of conversational skills and, in one of the better turns this volume, Sasaki googles what she’s doing and finds the exact advice column she’s reading. He’s not much of a character, but he does right by his crush here.
And then the last storyline crops up, which is also depressingly realistic, as an offhand comment by some jerk males that Nobukuni overhears basically destroys all her self-confidence, what there is of it, in a single shot.
There are problems with this series. It is woefully uneven. It has fan service in the most awkward places that it doesn’t need. But none of that makes it any easier to see Nobukuni slumped in a corner because she figures that she’ll never be good enough for Sasaki.
Good thing for what happens next then, right?
4 stars - the low points remain low, but dang this worked for me. As a bonus, Ema gives one of the best demonstrations of emotional dysregulation I’ve ever seen. It’s far from perfect, but it gets enough right to earn its rating this time out.
This series is, slowly but surely, getting better as it goes. It definitely has too many peaks and troughs, some of the chapters here are deadly mediocre or just inexplicable (the tugging one is laborious even), but those peaks are definitely getting better.
Let’s get into the good - I am half tempted to give this volume five stars for the gym class chapter alone, which might be the funniest gym class I’ve ever read in a manga. It gets these hormonal time bombs just right.
It also gives Sasaki some much needed character development, but the real draw comes when the girls notice Nobukuni watching Sasaki and start watching the boys, who then notice the girls watching them.
Not only does this offer fan service of a whole other sort, the boys completely go to pieces trying to show off for the girls and the whole thing devolves into absolute chaos as everybody jockeys for position with the females. Ludicrously believable.
There’s also a growing emphasis that maybe just being yourself is better than letting some magazine dictate your life choices. We’ve known for a long time that Nobukuni is her own worst enemy due to her lousy self-confidence, but this volume really drives it home.
The fatphobia chapter is brilliant, trust me here, because it not-so-subtly points out that magazines are soulless and do not know you. But Nobukuni decides she needs that beach body and makes herself utterly miserable on her own behalf. At no point is she body shamed.
So this turns out to be far more dietphobic, as we see Nobukuni not only fail hard, but the nonsensical contortions she goes through to justify her eating and her food ranking system are just flat-out funny. All in service of Sasaki telling her that she’s great just as she is.
This comes up again when Nobukuni tries to use ‘five simple sayings’ to make up for her perceived lack of conversational skills and, in one of the better turns this volume, Sasaki googles what she’s doing and finds the exact advice column she’s reading. He’s not much of a character, but he does right by his crush here.
And then the last storyline crops up, which is also depressingly realistic, as an offhand comment by some jerk males that Nobukuni overhears basically destroys all her self-confidence, what there is of it, in a single shot.
There are problems with this series. It is woefully uneven. It has fan service in the most awkward places that it doesn’t need. But none of that makes it any easier to see Nobukuni slumped in a corner because she figures that she’ll never be good enough for Sasaki.
Good thing for what happens next then, right?
4 stars - the low points remain low, but dang this worked for me. As a bonus, Ema gives one of the best demonstrations of emotional dysregulation I’ve ever seen. It’s far from perfect, but it gets enough right to earn its rating this time out.
March 20, 2026
More of a 3.5 star rating;
Some fun things happened in this volume and I liked seeing both Nobukuni and Sasaki’s friend groups helping those awkward lovebirds out in their own ways. With the way things ended in the last chapter, I’m very hopeful going into this next volume.
Some fun things happened in this volume and I liked seeing both Nobukuni and Sasaki’s friend groups helping those awkward lovebirds out in their own ways. With the way things ended in the last chapter, I’m very hopeful going into this next volume.
August 7, 2023
Progress!
That's all I'm gonna say. If you like the series so far, grab this volume right now. You'll be glad you did.
That's all I'm gonna say. If you like the series so far, grab this volume right now. You'll be glad you did.
August 16, 2023
It took three volumes to finally make it to the defining moment lol. Still it has been a fun ride now to see what comes of it .
January 13, 2024
Oh?! Is that progress I see!!! Let's go!!!!
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