I love this manga, I really do. It's innocent and cute yet gives you a bittersweet taste of how relationships can be at times.
But, and that's a big but, I don't really get the point of the sequel...when they just had to regress on the relationship. The prequel showed that they kissed (multiple times at that) and their relationship showed some development, but it all went back in this volume? Was their kiss even real? Was it just a dream or something? Reading this volume, it just seems like nothing happened between them...
Also, love me a supportive girl, but that is definitely not what Chiba is. I just knew when I saw her in the first volume that there would definitely be drama with her, and lo and behold, here it is. She has an inkling as to what both of them feel towards each other, but she still pushes Endou towards her friend in the first volume, picks on him from time to time, confesses to Tsuda (apparently bcoz she wants them to move forward...yeah right), continues to pick on Endou when she gets rejected (of course she can't pick on Tsuda bcoz he can stand his own, but Endou is a lot more submissive in that aspect). And even IF she was supportive, who does she think she is? Let them do what they want, why was is she butting in? Some people commented that this was all in good humor but I really can't bring myself to believe that. Chiba comes across (at least to me) as one of those cliche girls who cry 'why can't it be me' to the guy who rejected them.
There is a lot of back and forth, and I was quite confused about the timeline of this (since their relationship went back a few *huge* steps), but I still want to see them get together in the end!
I wish this gets translated bcoz I really don't want to be hating/disliking any character, and I definitely want to know how their relationship progresses!
I love this manga, I really do. It's innocent and cute yet gives you a bittersweet taste of how relationships can be at times.
But, and that's a big but, I don't really get the point of the sequel...when they just had to regress on the relationship. The prequel showed that they kissed (multiple times at that) and their relationship showed some development, but it all went back in this volume? Was their kiss even real? Was it just a dream or something? Reading this volume, it just seems like nothing happened between them...
Also, love me a supportive girl, but that is definitely not what Chiba is. I just knew when I saw her in the first volume that there would definitely be drama with her, and lo and behold, here it is.
She has an inkling as to what both of them feel towards each other, but she still pushes Endou towards her friend in the first volume, picks on him from time to time, confesses to Tsuda (apparently bcoz she wants them to move forward...yeah right), continues to pick on Endou when she gets rejected (of course she can't pick on Tsuda bcoz he can stand his own, but Endou is a lot more submissive in that aspect). And even IF she was supportive, who does she think she is? Let them do what they want, why was is she butting in?
Some people commented that this was all in good humor but I really can't bring myself to believe that. Chiba comes across (at least to me) as one of those cliche girls who cry 'why can't it be me' to the guy who rejected them.
There is a lot of back and forth, and I was quite confused about the timeline of this (since their relationship went back a few *huge* steps), but I still want to see them get together in the end!
I wish this gets translated bcoz I really don't want to be hating/disliking any character, and I definitely want to know how their relationship progresses!