Manga Review 9 Last Game

Ah the vast realm of shoujo manga. A very wide and heavily traveled kingdom indeed. *twirls mustache sophisticatedly*

{Spoilers, maybe.}

The love story between two childhood friends, a crybaby tsundere and a blockhead. The crybaby tsundere being Yanagi and the blockhead being Kujou.

Their love story is quite admirable. It follows the 10 year relationship between the two from elementary school to college and how the dynamic between them changes. In their lives the only thing that stays constant is their relationships to one another and their families. Kujou’s ultimate priority being her mom slowly shifts over time goes from being all-encompassing to important, but leaving time for friends. Yanagi’s priorities basically stay the same since he’s liked Kujou for a decade. The friend zone was strong in this relationship.

However, with time and Kujou’s slow realization of her feelings because of Momoka and Souma causing trouble between the two as minor prospective love interests (ohoho the love polygons), their relationship started to bloom. The story follows the two of them mostly in their college years, except for the childhood flashbacks when Yanagi realizes he has to be more responsible to be respectable in his own right. This quality of wanting to be better through his own means is admirable; therefore I approve of him as Kujou’s wife, even though Souma was so precious with his vegetables and ambitions too. Through college the two of them connect on a deeper level with love conflicts, discovery of true feelings, and cliche school events (but honestly, all shoujo is cliche at some level).

Overall, I think this is a great completed shoujo manga that you can read without the stress of having to wait for someone to scanlate or update the manga you read (as of 1.2017). It’s relatively short as well with only 56 chapters. Quite satisfactory and super cute because who doesn’t love a happy ending?

This airport scene gives me life and unrealistic expectations for my life

Their wedding was so beautiful tbh

Image Sources: my own screenshots with my own phone (y)