Rating (Out of 5): ~4
Publisher: Shojo Beat (VIZ Media)
Release Date: March 2019
Volumes: 18.
Spoilers?: No.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
Music and longing collide in this ballad of unrequited love!
Nino Arisugawa, a girl who loves to sing, experiences her first heart-wrenching goodbye when her beloved childhood friend, Momo, moves away. And after Nino befriends Yuzu, a music composer, she experiences another sad parting! Luckily, Nino reunites with Momo and Yuzu in high school, but things haven’t played out the way anyone expected…
Unable to sing because she has nothing left to yearn for, Nino is caught between her love of music and her love for Momo. Meanwhile, the Tokyo Sailing concert series has begun, and In No Hurry is taking the stage with a singer who has lost her song…
Nino Arisugawa, a girl who loves to sing, experiences her first heart-wrenching goodbye when her beloved childhood friend, Momo, moves away. And after Nino befriends Yuzu, a music composer, she experiences another sad parting! Luckily, Nino reunites with Momo and Yuzu in high school, but things haven’t played out the way anyone expected…
Unable to sing because she has nothing left to yearn for, Nino is caught between her love of music and her love for Momo. Meanwhile, the Tokyo Sailing concert series has begun, and In No Hurry is taking the stage with a singer who has lost her song…
Review:
The bright part of this volume is when Kurose and An go to the
concert together. It's kind of a date, and we get an idea of what
happened to An when she runs into old “friends”. Kurose steps up
in a really sweet, necessary way for her here. I really like seeing
their relationship form, as I think they'll be sweet together.
Most of the rest of the volume is taken up with Momo, Yuzu, and Nino.
Yuzu is still dealing with family stuff, which is messy. Now that
Nino has Momo, she's seemed to have lost her will to sing. Now that
she's with him, she doesn't have anything else to sing for. Even
though the band has other events to do, it's all very moody for her.
This whole thing really bothers me. I just don't get why she needs
her childhood love in order to be able to sing. I get that she's been singing only for him for so long, but she could also want to sing for
herself, or for the audience, or because she loves singing. It also
doesn't help that I get no sense of how she's singing, so when
someone comments that she's off or really going all out, it's hard to
tell.
I have issues with this plot line, but we shall see how it turns out.
A review copy was provided by the publisher, VIZ Media, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much!
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