![]() between former lovers / family get blurred, and the inbetween. The key questions are: what does it mean to be a lover, where does the line If I was to sum up the pith of the narrative, it is about two people finding their place with each other as sibilings / potential lovers, despite carrying the baggage of having broken up with each other some two weeks before the main narrative begins. Like many people, I was intrigued by the premise having seen an ad for the anime on Youtube, and wound up reading the manga followed by all eight (8) volumes of the Light Novel (thanks Hellping) because I grew invested in the story. So there's still hope that it ends as well as it started. Book 9 seems to introduce Yume's father though, so hopefully it could be the equivalent for Mizuto that book 4 was for Yume and this one was definitely the strongest. There are still good chapters in books 6 to 8 (5 was essentially uninteresting) but I don't really know what to do with the upcoming releases. If you had the fact that the writer came back to all the usual tropes of school slice of life romance (cultural festival, sport festival, summer festival, at least we were spared Valentine and new year), it unfortunately seems to be one of the numerous examples of a light novel when the writer lost it along the way. Mizuto's character in particular, suffers from this situation, showing very limited development in 4 volumes out of 8 and looking very often like a total jerk. Book 8 is so filled with their vanilla stories that we barely have anything left to witness the two main characters 'evolution. In the last three books, we're also introduced to a plentiful of new characters from the Student Council, none of them being memorable in any way, but who take an increasingly large share of the chapters, moving us even further away from Mizuto and Yume. The sheer amount of chapters dedicated to the usually pretty empty discussions between Mizuto and her moves us too far away from the main couple, whose management of their relationship was my main interest in the books, and these chapters are so repetitive with pseudo-erotic comments and comedy that I ended skipping them altogether. One of the reason is the Isana Higashira character, which is essentially a plot device to introduce a painful love triangle and pseudo-comic situation. Unfortunately, this positive trend is definitely going downward with the 5th volume. The whole series are particularly good during the scenes between the two main characters, where we can really have an insight of their thought processes, the difficulties they have to cope with their history together and the new situation. could have been skipped, there are very strong and well written moments. I was interested because it was depicting in a slightly roundabout way how a couple has to reinvent its relationship after the initial passion, and how that was possibly a difficult process with a lot in introspection and painfully revisiting past errors.Īnd in fact, that first 4 volumes do that job pretty well and allow us to dig deeper and deeper within the complicated relationship of Yume and Mizuto. I came to read this novel after watching the first episodes of the anime, as I was curious about the initial setup and thought that the novel could be richer.
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