Burn the House Down Vol. 6

Title: Burn the House Down Vol. 6
Author: Moyashi Fujisawa
Series: Burn the House Down #6
First Published: March 13, 2020
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Pages: 207
Genre: Drama, Josei
Format: Web
Source: Web
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Synopsis:

Anzu Murata, assuming a false name, sneaks into the Mitarai household under the guise of a housekeeper in search of the truth behind the fire 13 years ago -- a fire for which her mother was labeled the criminal behind its outbreak. Operating independently, Anzu's younger sister, Yuzu, reunites with their estranged father and presses him for information, but Makiko finds out about their clandestine meetings. Anzu takes action to keep their father quiet about their plans and becomes Makiko's manager, narrowly snatching the two sisters from the brink of disaster. While feigning disinterest in the Mitarai house, Yuzu secretly continues the search for the truth by looking into Makiko's fans from 13 years past!

Review

Goodness gracious what an incredible end to the volume. I usually hate cliffhanger endings but they are used effectively in this series to keep me plowing through each volume. The only reason I stopped when I finished was that I had already stayed up two hours past my bedtime on a work night. The volume was a tell-all about Makiko, picking up where the last volume left off and piecing things together. There is a subplot with a character who was just a side character up to this point that I couldn’t stand, but it was deeply satisfying seeing Makiko show her fangs in this segment. All that aside, this volume has delivered greatly on the romance that I’ve been dying for in this series and I’m eating it up!

Social media is hell and that becomes extremely apparent in this volume. It’s shows how the stuff that we do online can come back to haunt us, especially with how connected the internet has become to our personal lives, it’s just so much more different than it used to be 15 to 20 years ago. I know I’m showing my age a bit having grown up through these massive changes in the online space and it’s given me whiplash, I think about these topics often so it was great to see it covered in this series. The story is setting up Makiko to be the perfect villain in this story, too perfect in fact, and I can easily see it all being one big red herring in the end. It’s the kind of twist that I expect, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want Makiko to be the ultimate villain of this story, she’s just so good at it.

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