Rating (Out of 5): ~4
Publisher: Shonen Jump (VIZ Media)
Release Date: March 2020
Volumes: 19+
Spoilers?: No.
Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells. RightStuf.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Two high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.
Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first…?!
Will
Ishigami make a confession of love? Who would date someone who is both
an emo gamer and a former school pariah…? Meanwhile, someone is ready to
confess her love to Shirogane—and it’s not Kaguya! Then Ino sabotages a
romantic tour of a haunted house, Shirogane reveals some unexpected
nonacademic skills, Kaguya accidentally dispenses good advice and a
fortune teller foretells an ominous date for our pride-crossed
lovers—no, not that kind of date. Plus heart-themed key rings, cookies, takoyaki and balloons!
But nobody turns down Stanford.
Review:
The school festival has finally started, and each class is focusing on their own activities. Kaguya is in a cosplay cafe, where she's idolized before being able to serve and attempt to show her tea-making skills—a surprising point of pride for her.
Chika and Shinomiya are doing balloon animals, which Shinomiya finally figured out how to do. Kaguya tries to trick him into making her a heart, though that doesn't quite go as planned. She also tries to trick him into taking a heart from her, though that also doesn't quite work. Her attempts at confessing her love without actually doing so are a bit too tricky to work, apparently.
Then there's Yu, who inadvertently confesses and doesn't know it, so doesn't understand what everyone else is going through regarding his confession. It's a debacle that he's created, and it's still unclear whether it's a good or a bad thing. I'm rooting for him, though.
Kaguya is thrown a twist at the end of the volume, but this series is still going strong, so I don't know if they're going to be doing any real confessing any time soon or not.
This series started with them treating confessing as a challenge and a competition. Now it's somehow formed into trying to trick the other person into loving them without ever acknowledging it. Trying to spend as much time together as a couple without anyone saying the words. I kind of like the change it has taken.
A review copy was provided by the publisher, VIZ Media, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much!
No comments:
Post a Comment