Anna Yamada, la bellezza in cima alla gerarchia della scuola, e Kyotaro Ichikawa, un cupo ragazzino perso nelle sue fantasie. Un amore inizia a sbocciare tra due mondi che non si sarebbero mai dovuti incontrare, accarezzando la loro vita quotidiana e dando colore a un universo tutto nuovo. L’aula, la biblioteca e poi... la casa.
Anna and Kyotaro continue their own wobbly version of a courtship ritual. With neither of them quite willing to make a move there are just a lot of awkward teenage moments, but some rain and a cold just might make it all worthwhile. Or not.
We’ve come a long way from the eyebrow-raising thoughts of Kyotaro in the first volume to this piece of heart-warming delight. He’s slowly changing, speech balloons and all, into a better person. That edge is there, but it’s being blunted more and more. Love will do that.
Oh yes, there’s no question that these two are nuts about one another, but they’re also incredibly timid about being explicit, so this is just wall to wall implicit as they nudge one another closer to being happy. There’s never really a question of any rivals and other such nonsense, plus the stories keep making smidgens of progress. It all adds up to keep this from feeling like it’s warming up the same leftovers constantly.
It would be impossible to list all of the charm present in this one, but it’s shockingly sweet watching this relationship development and this volume is the first to completely fulfill all the promise that was poking through in the first one.
Maybe it was just the way it struck me, but I didn’t dislike a single chapter here or find any of them wanting. The highlights are definitely a very funny meeting of the moms, the aforementioned rain and subsequent cold, a detailed treatise on girl-girl touching boundaries, a goofy battle over seating arrangements, and a very brief fight that’s as sad as it is touching.
Kyotaro actually grows up a little and realizes something a lot of moody and withdrawn nerds never do (I say this having been there) - being negative and snide about everything just makes you torturous to be around. You’ve never seen a life lesson delivered by a Nintendo Switch (uh, I mean Smitch…) quite like this, but it’s a real character moment for him when he finally gets it, just before he goes and does something extra stupid.
The way that he and Anna are such different people, despite both being on the outside of their class, is well portrayed. Anna kind of exists in her own little world - she’s not dumb, but she has her own way of doing things and goals that are unlike a lot of the others. It’s certainly partly due to her acting career, but some of it is just… Anna’s nature of being Anna. She has her friends, but they definitely feel more acquaintances except in a couple of instances (the movie story illustrates how much better Kyotaro gets her than anybody else).
It really comes across in how the attention of others affects them - Anna is blatantly and obviously jealous whenever anybody has the slightest bit of interest in Kyotaro. When the roles are reversed, Kyotaro acts more out of a protective role (especially from the class moron) just because his self-esteem is so non-existent that he can’t fathom this relationship being, well, a relationship.
I genuinely don’t have a bad thing to say about this one. It’s not often I get a book that ticks all the boxes for me, so I appreciate it when they come along. I had high hopes for this one and seeing it finally polish itself to such a delightful shine was worth the wait.
5 stars - it doesn’t have to be flashy to be good and this one just nails it every single chapter. It tugs at the heart strings, gently tickles the funny bone, and has two people who work so well together that you’re practically impatient waiting for them to figure themselves out. Stellar.
This is progressing very nicely. Yamada is wearing her heart on her sleeve and Kyotaro is still pretty dense. He is becoming more aware of his feelings though and this leads to some very sweet and endearing moments between the two. This feels fresh enough and avoids a good deal of the common tropes. This was the best volume in the series so far.
Je n’aime pas trop voir les tomes traîner trop longtemps dans ma pal, les voir s’accumuler les uns après les autres. Mais en même temps j’aime bien parce que, comme ici, ça me permet de pouvoir enchaîner tous les tomes les uns après les autres et finalement ce n’est pas plus mal non plus! Plus j’avance dans ce manga et plus l’histoire me plaît. J’avais peur qu’on tombe dans le redondant et bien je suis ravie de voir que ce n’est clairement pas le cas!
Dans ce troisième tome, Anna Yamada, au sommet de la pyramide de popularité de l’école, et Kuôtarô Ichikawa, atteint de timidité maladive. Leurs mondes n’auraient jamais dû entrer en collision, mais voilà… Le sentiment amoureux qu’ils nourrissent l’un envers l’autre et qui habite leur quotidien continue de grandir tranquillement, leur offrant chemin faisant la découverte d’un monde rempli de petites merveilles. Les instants précieux se multiplient en classe, à la bibliothèque et… chez Ichikawa.. ?!
Comme je viens de le dire, j’avais un peu peur qu’on tombe dans le redondant, qu’on finisse par tourner en rond et que ça finisse par me lasser. Je suis ravie de voir que ce n’est pas le cas du tout! En fait la relation entre Yamada et Ichikawa ne cesse d’évoluer en quelque chose de plus intime, du coup ça amène de la nouveauté, des nouveaux sentiments, des nouvelles émotions et donc les scènes sont bien différentes malgré tout. J’aime vraiment beaucoup la tournure que prend la relation entre ces deux là. Yamada était déjà très attachante mais je la trouve encore plus maintenant. Ichikawa également d’ailleurs, je les trouve tellement adorable à rougir comme ça, à se sentir gêné et tout ça. J’adore. J’ai beaucoup aimé le moment où Yamada rencontre la maman de Ichikawa, c’était un chouette moment je trouve. Et puis je trouve qu’ils passent de plus en plus de temps hors de l’école ensemble!
Un troisième tome qui fait avancer la relation entre nos deux personnages d’un cran encore. Ils semblent tous les deux ressentir des sentiments bien plus forts que de l’amitié. Certes Ichikawa l’a remarqué et est très conscient de ça, autant ça n’a pas l’air d’être la même chose du côté de Yamada, elle reste un peu plus sur la réserve et comme l’histoire est du point de vue de Ichikiwa, on ne sait pas. vraiment ce que Yamada pense réellement. Sur ce je me jette sur le quatrième tome!
We got these characters getting closer and closer.
Yamada plays a "I'm dumb" game but we all know what she wants. To get closer and closer to Kobayashi. It's so obvious she likes him and she showcases it more than ever in this volume. From when they almost sit next to each other, to meeting in a room way to small for both of them, to him being sick and her visiting him, get all cute/fun moments.
'The Dangers In My Heart' is a bit more of your typical odd-couple romance by vol 3, but it's still very cute; looking forward to seeing what happens next now that they've both sort of realized their attraction to each other.
Kyo is always unsure of himself and does not fully perceive the signals sent by Anna, leading to situations and misunderstandings. The structure of each chapter describing an event in the day of the two is enjoyable. The chat-room exchange is also pleasant.
I absolutely love this series - kyo is adorable and even though he's very intelligent he's super dense, but a lot of that is because of his low self esteem. Yamada is becoming increasingly tender towards kyo which is very cute. I think its kyo's inner monologue that makes this manga work so well.