It had a rough start, but a great middle part, and then, unfortunately, a rough ending.
Plot
After seeing her best friend, Yuzu, being confessed to by another classmate, Minami realizes she wouldn’t be quite okay with Yuzu dating someone else, even though she wants her to be happy. As Minami hopes to go from best friends to lovers with Yuzu, she only struggles with these new, intense feelings towards her and is not sure how she should tell Yuzu, who seems to be completely dense about all of Minami’s signals!
My opinion
The art is cute, the character designs are typical yuri/cgdct, the characters being quite similar but still have distinctive features, and you’ll get the usual yuri dating tropes. Festival, fireworks, fever, bath, school trips, school festival … what was not so common was the planetarium and the ski trip. That was cool as a change.
The supporting characters were really nice, and our MCs would’ve been totally done for without Kamiya – the angel!
I’m disappointed we didn’t get to see more of Tsubasa and Kosame, though.
Volume 1 was awful.
It had a sweet first chapter, but Minami was way too much, too annoying from chapter 2 on! Felt like I was reading a thriller based on her heartbeat.
Volume 3 and 4 were my favorites
The progress there was great!
Well, as other reviewers on other platforms have said, the progress was more episodic, yes, but it still looked like they were having fun, and Minami finally calmed down a little in v3. It was actually enjoyable watching them together, after I wondered in v1 how they were bffs for 7 or so years.
Even the first half of volume 5 seemed really promising!
There were some really cute moments there! <3
But then there was this one moment that should’ve been the climax, yet it ended up being very anti-climatic. When it came to the verbal confession at the end, I didn’t feel anything for them anymore. I didn’t need for them to be together as lovers anymore, I would have honestly liked if they didn’t end up together and move on from their crush. THAT would’ve been a mature take! Unfortunately it didn’t.
As much as I love melancholy, I did not like whatever the author wanted to show at the end. Was it supposed to be more realistic? Good job, but after the extreme blushing from the previous volumes, i do not see why there was any need to bring this down to earth now. Especially cause you’d want readers to keep rooting for them, not achieve the opposite. Maybe it just me, though, I don’t know.
More often than not, their hopelessness reminded me of ‘Adachi & Shimamura‘. If you like their awkwardness, you’ll definitely like Yuzu & Minami too.
| Criteria | Scores | Our Score |
|---|---|---|
| Art | 1-5 | 4.5 |
| Pacing | 1-5 | 3 |
| Characters | 1-5 | 3.5 |
| Writing Style | 1-5 | 4 |
| Originality | 1-5 | 2 |
Finale Grade
B
Finished reading: 25th February 2025
~Arden Skye
Check my other content on: Newsletter | Youtube | My books
Written By: Arden Skye
Favorite game/film/book: doesn’t have one, cause there are too many good ones!
About: generalist, who likes a bit of everything, but especially has a love for magic, queerness and melancholy. When they’re not arting, they’re probably dreaming/reading through another world, or spending time in nature with their dog.
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/timefliesaway
