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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Manga Review: Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty, Volume 4, by Megumi Morino


Rating (Out of 5): ~4
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Release Date: May 2018
Volumes: 6.
Spoilers?: No.
Volume: 1. 3. 5.

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 MOVING FORWARD


Shizu's grand scheme to get Tetsu to play soccer one last time was a big success, and has become a catalyst for change for everyone involved. One of the biggest changes comes from Chihiro, who works up the courage to tell Tetsu his biggest secret. Will this revelation tear the friends apart?

Review:

After the stadium thing, Shizu has grown somewhat okay with leaving the house now. And she's formed an acquaintance-ship with Chihiro. This opens to the bromance between Chihiro and Tetsu—we get Chihiro's backstory, and a secret about him, and then we get to see what kind of friendship they really have, as they both come to realize they are actually friends.
Shizu gets to go to a festival in a yukata for the first time, just as her father shows up and ruins everything.
We finally get into the deeper plot in the last half of the book, as Shizu's father shows and we see what drastic measures he's willing to take to hide his daughter, and what her mother is willing to let him do because of her own fears and insecurities.
The end of the volume feels like there's not much left, but we still have two volumes. I'm excited to see where this goes next, now that Tetsu is taking a stand.

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