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I was rather disappointed in this volume... I'm not sure if the mangaka made this before/after the Rock Shounen stories; but the plot, character development, story progression, everything about the writing really, it was all really bad. Shallow, one-dimensional characters, the reasoning behind every decision, it just screamed "lazy writing/planning". I think the last story was the one that bugged me the least out of all of them, but just because of the end of it, nothing else. Three stories: 1-2: Girl studying in a catholic school works for the school newspaper, she gets involved with the black sheep boy from school, first by claiming he has to be the culprit behind some recent crimes, then because some stalker dude is messing with her and she can't rely on anyone but him. 3: Reminded me a lot of Tamako Market, just not cute. Fish mongler's daughter is constantly annoyed by the cake shop's son, both constantly annoying each other. One day as she was being mocked by some kids (she loves cute things but nobody thinks of her as cute), she's saved by a costumed rabbit who runs away immediately after she saw it. She discovers the rabbit is known as the Optician's Rabbit because he's always giving balloons there, she also happens to have a huge crush on the optician's son... could he be her saviour? 4: Bored, rich girl decides to sponsor the Chemistry Club to ease her boredom with their experiments. She requests them a love potion and since she's so annoyed with the club prez, she decides to test it out on him.

...just don't, it's too bad to put into words.

The premise had potential, but honestly I don't think it developed well at all. Girl is "saved" from delinquents by another delinquent who took her in as her "dog". In one of the many fights the delinquent had, someone got the upper hand and hit his head badly; this made him have a sort of "mental regression" to his 7-year old self, it made him kind, thoughtful, cute, and completely devoted to the girl.

Highschool girl helps a woman find her ex's belongings in a train station. //Also, that kouhai was fkn cute ...I absolutely adore this mangaka's art style. Everyone's so beauuuutiful

All the stories go like this: 1) Barairo no Hoo no Koro 2) J no Subete Vol.1 3) 2 Shuukan no Adventure 4) J no Subete Vol.2-3 Man... what a rollercoaster of emotions, I feel sooo bad for how much so many of them had to go through. I'm quite fortunate to have been alive in this time, when issues true equality is able to be fought for a bit more openly than back then (we still have a long way to go, but we've definitely gone a long way since those years). This series definitely is worth reading, it touches on several topics that are still quite relevant today and really makes you see how much the characters suffered throughout their lives, not just by other people's hands but by their own "demons" as well. For this particular section of the series, at first I really felt annoyed at Andrew, his attitude. Then I pitied him a bit, considering all anyone ever thought of him was "the Mayor's son", having been on a sort of similar position, I KNOW how angering that ends up being. Middle-school Paul was cutest out of ALL the characters in the entire series, I think... it was such a pity to see him all grown and changed :P Then the ending... gah. I REALLY feel bad for Andrew now, it's like nothing ever went right for him, life just kept shitting bricks on him and his lack of maturity just made things worse. I'm glad J has someone that cares for him deeply, but I think that that person could have been Andrew too, and the person for Andrew could have been Paul, you know, who knows, all three or I don't know! But it feels bad that only Andrew got the short end of the stick, all the way to the very end.

All the stories go like this: 1) Barairo no Hoo no Koro 2) J no Subete Vol.1 3) 2 Shuukan no Adventure 4) J no Subete Vol.2-3 Man... what a rollercoaster of emotions, I feel sooo bad for how much so many of them had to go through. I'm quite fortunate to have been alive in this time, when issues true equality is able to be fought for a bit more openly than back then (we still have a long way to go, but we've definitely gone a long way since those years). This series definitely is worth reading, it touches on several topics that are still quite relevant today and really makes you see how much the characters suffered throughout their lives, not just by other people's hands but by their own "demons" as well. For this particular section of the series, before reading this I _really_ didn't like J, not one bit. I saw him just as "that little brat that got in the way of Paul and Andrew", but now it's like... this poor kid had so, so many horrible things happen, lived such a pained life, grew up with no self-worth whatsoever because all everyone else saw him with was disdain. I'm sure that there's still a lot I can't really understand about J's circusmtances, I don't know if there was a real desire to be a woman and not just a crossdresser; in either case really, I'm pretty certain that there's a lot of nuances that went over my head or if even J's situation was really an appropriate portrayal of someone in that position, I don't know. I don't have anyone close to me that is going through anything even remotely similar, but if there were, I wish I could do something for them.

MOMO ️

Straight-laced class president VS teasing prince in search for distractions. It sort of seemed like the King had something on his mind when they were discussing the Prince, but I guess we'll never know...

Cute story about a girl that's in love with her teacher. Done if a far better way than any other student x teacher stories I've encountered... Only issue I have with this is that it'd be nice to see how things go once she finishes school, I mean, you can see where things are going, but it would be nice to actually see it happen.

What a beautiful story. The art might have looked weird at times but the story, character development, and pretty much everything else makes up for it by leaps and bounds. I can't say I'm personally close to anyone that's hearing impaired, so I'm not 100% certain that their representation is not just accurate but also tactful. Nevertheless, I have the feeling that they handled things tastefully and compassionately. At the very least, the mangaka managed to write a touching story that can inspire people to make the extra effort to understand those who are different than them. I truly loved it. It'd be great if "another time" came and we could get the younger siblings' story (: