Title: Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You Vol. 2Author: Haruka Mitsui
Series: Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You #2
First Published: December 21, 2021
Publisher: Kodansha
Pages: 158
Genre: Drama, Romance, Shojo
Format: Web
Source: Web
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Synopsis:
Mizuho's been thrown into a huge fluster after getting an impossible confession from Saito-sempai, whom she admires... and having little to no experience in love, she ends up bedridden with a fever. While Kizuki and her other childhood friends take care of her, their emotions also run high and won't calm down. In the midst of this, Shin, who's always calm and collected, skips class to invite Mizuho to go to the beach. Mizuho laments that, "Now that I've been confessed to, I don't understand my own feelings anymore..." To which Shin says, "Just reaffirm your own feelings!" and suddenly embraces her!
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While I felt cautiously optimistic about volume one, volume two convinced me to invest my time into reading this series. Volume one heavily focuses on Kizuki, one of the four childhood friends who is the most overt in his crush on Mizuho. The star of volume two though is Shin, the reserved honors student of the group. I’m already so biased toward Shin, and many of the scenes involving him had me kicking my feet.
The pacing in this volume was a little better, but plot threads are dropped in without much context and are being peppered in to be picked up later. Snippets of plot lines about the other two characters, Shuugo and Airu, are introduced in this volume, and I’m curious to learn more about both of these characters, especially Shuugo. The group dynamic between the four boys is fun, and I like all of them as characters.
I’m still not very convinced by the swim captain, who Mizuho had confessed to in volume one with absolutely terrible timing. So the competition between Kizuki and the captain felt a little out of place. The budding romance between Kizuki and Mizuho also feels a bit forced, but realistic too. Mizuho understandably doesn’t know how to feel, between the seeming rejection and confession from her crush to the overbearing attentions of Kizuki, who she previously only viewed as being like a little brother.
Mizuho’s fear of change and uncertainty about love is illustrated well, I could relate to her in a way. As a young girl that’s still figuring herself out, it’s easy to get swept up and to just pick the first guy that gives you attention. Springtime of youth, indeed. A solid second volume overall, and I’m not fully invested in seeing where the story goes from here.
Quote
“The one who’s afraid to know their own feelings… Is me, huh?”
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About Haruka Mitsui
A popular and prolific shojo manga artist in Japan, Haruka Mitsui’s previous manga, I Fell in Love After School, has been published in English digitally. Anyway, I’m Falling In Love With You is Mitsui’s first work to be published in English in print
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