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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Manga Review: Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty, Volume 3, by Megumi Morino


Rating (Out of 5): ~4
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Release Date: March 2018
Volumes: 6.
Spoilers?: No.
Volume: 1. 2. 4.

Goodreads Synopsis:

This funny and heartrending romantic manga set in modern Tokyo is not the fairy tale you remember! This time, Prince Charming is a teenage janitor, and this Sleeping Beauty's curse is a supernatural, gender-bending dream that threatens to pull them both into a deeper and deeper slumber...

THE SUFFERING


As Shizu begins to venture outside more and more, her days are filled with new experiences. When she shows an interest in going to school, Tetsu and the spirits dwelling within Shizu think up a foolproof plan to get her there. But when the two teens arrive on campus, they bump into Tetsu's old soccer team. Suddenly, his carefully curated life begins to unravel and Shizu may be the only one who can save him.

Review:

This volume is very about Tetsu. His past is finally catching up to him, now that he's nearing graduation, and Shizu is starting to notice. Shizu is struggling with all of her inner voices while trying to find her own, especially regarding her feelings for Tetsu and how she can help him. Tetsu has pushed away all of his friends and hobbies, and it's affected his friends and family in ways he wasn't seeing. It turns out, he needed the good-hearted childishness of Kanato to push him along.
It's a little messy, with the revelation in the middle. All of these feelings are also culminating inside Shizu. But the end result is super sweet, and it's nice to see all of his old team mates showing Tetsu how much they care.
The ending was another rather big revelation. I'm intrigued to see where it goes next, in their relationship.
Having so many people in Tetsu's life meet Shizu is also interesting, and I'm wondering what will happen with that. Her predicament is a little hard to explain, especially when Tetsu calls Shizu by each personality that takes over—that is sure to get confusing to someone else at some point.

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