Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: VIZ Signature (VIZ Media)
Release Date: March 2018
Volumes: 4.
Spoilers?: No.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
A genre-defining saga of love and friendship between girls.
Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station! Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids…
It’s time for the Fujigaya theater festival again, and this year Akira and her friends have chosen an ambitious Japanese play. Not only will it seriously challenge their acting abilities, but the number of characters in it means they’ll need all hands on deck to pull it off. But ever since Fumi admitted that she had feelings for Akira, their friendship has been a little awkward. Will the forced intimacy of collaborating on the play help them work things out, or make things worse?
Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station! Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids…
It’s time for the Fujigaya theater festival again, and this year Akira and her friends have chosen an ambitious Japanese play. Not only will it seriously challenge their acting abilities, but the number of characters in it means they’ll need all hands on deck to pull it off. But ever since Fumi admitted that she had feelings for Akira, their friendship has been a little awkward. Will the forced intimacy of collaborating on the play help them work things out, or make things worse?
Review:
They perform the play in the first half of this volume. The costumes
are really good, and a few of them are much better actors than they
expected. It goes off really well, with only a little mess-up. I'm
not fully sure what the meaning behind the play for this book was,
but it was there for a few of the characters.
In the second half, it's another girls vacation. Only, this time,
there's more feelings and embarrassment between Akira and Fumi. Fumi
is struggling with their relationship, as she knows how she feels and
what she wants to do; Akira is very inexperienced and clueless about
all of it, though.
There's a surprise move in the second half of the volume, which I
didn't see happening so soon. I rather like how it's handled, though.
Same as when Fumi talks to Ono about what happened in the previous
volume. Fumi is reluctant and unsure, but she's also honest and
rather upfront about herself, and I respect that. This isn't a thing
talked about much, and could easily cause problems for Fumi, but
she's being honest about it, while also quiet and private for the
most part. That takes a lot of courage.
I really like this series, it's soft and sweet, and I'm looking
forward to seeing how it wraps up in the next volume.
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