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Review: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 4

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 4 Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 4 by Aka Akasaka
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ch 34, Pg 18
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Overall this was by faaaaaarr the least funny volume. But, considering how funny these volumes usually are, that's still not really bad at all. Though, I did read it at night while my family was sleeping, so there might have been some influence there for me not to laugh so as to not wake them. I'm not really sure about that though because there still were parts that made me laugh out loud nonetheless.

Ch 31, Pg 6

Although I wasn't laughing as much during this volume, it was still really enjoyable to read because of how attached I am to the characters at this point. This volume also finally started incorporating multiple longer plotlines that spanned multiple chapters, so that was fun. It only took them 30 chapters to finally get an overarching plot going on... (sarcasm). So rather than being excited to see what new gags they're going to come up with, I'm excited about how the storyline is going to finally progress.

Ch 31, Pg 11
(I felt this soo hard with track and field, back when I was the best sprinter at my middle school.)

So far I've been reading this series for the laughs, but this volume made me actually start caring about the romance as well. This is officially labeled as a romantic comedy, but up until this point I completely disregarded the "romantic" part and was completely engrossed in the "comedy" aspect, as is also evident in how I labeled it in my review of volume one. There were some cute moments in this volume, and it makes me really want to cheer for Kaguya and "S" dude to get together!!! (It's been four volumes and I still can't remember his name... Wait, it's Shirogane!! I think? I'm trying... OTL) They obviously won't get together until the end of the series though, because that'll defeat the whole point of the series when they do. That's probably not going to come for a looooong loooooong time though.

I couldn't rate this on a laughs scale like I did for the last volume because... Well, as I've already explained that wouldn't be accurate. So once again, I am stuck. Four or five stars? I've always said that if you have to contemplate it, then it's probably not a five. But then my problem lies with the fact that I feel like this is potentially one of my favourite manga, and so I should give it a five for that. I think I'm just going to keep this at four stars for now... The next volume will have the opportunity to provide the finishing blow to push this to five stars if it is up to the task. Though I that is also what I said about volume three, so who knows.

Ch 37, Pg 7

This is a very good manga series, I would highly recommend it. I don't know why I keep saying this at the end of these reviews though, because if you hadn't already started reading this series I don't know why you'd be reading this. Nonetheless, it is true, so I will say it. :)


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