Terrence’s Reviews > Adachi and Shimamura (Light Novel) Vol. 2 > Status Update

In between all that, there's of course some more slice of life stuff, but also some close contact moments (Shimamura resting her head on Adachi's lap which is a reversal of last volume's scene; Nagafuji kissing Hino on the forehead and staring at her). I think shippers will probably be happy enough with this volume.

Almost done with this one now. I'm going to try and do some kind of video review / overview on it at some point.

There's basically 4 main story parts:

1) Examining Adachi and Shimamura's moms.
2) Adachi and Shimamura's thoughts and anxieties about their relationship with one another.
3) Hino x Nagafuji (examining how much or how little relationships change over the years).
4) Lil Shima x Yashiro / Alien.

Adachi is trying to figure out how to ask Shima out for Christmas.

I liked the little joke where Shima is contemplating going to Adachi's house as Adachi is desperately trying not to get her to go there (cause of her soda shrine) and then Shima thinks "oh, that would be awkward" subtly referencing back to the challenge she made to Adachi's mom.

Hino and Nagafuji remain comic relief problem characters.

Little alien girl gets an interlude chapter where she chases Shimamura's little sister home, then eventually gets more casually introduced at the doorway as Shimamura's "destiny" (I'm still assuming she is born from the love between Shima and Adachi in the future). We find out she's 600+ years old and her companion is 800+, but she looks the same size as an elementary schooler. Lil sis and her become friends.