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Review: 寄宿学校のジュリエット（３）

寄宿学校のジュリエット（３） 寄宿学校のジュリエット（３） by 金田陽介
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Brb, crying.

Crying girl from the anime “Nichijou” gif

Not actually, though. Like, I didn’t shed any actual tears or even get close to it, it’s just that this series… is so good.

The romance between Romeo and Juliet is still weirdly innocent, but the actual story is so engrossing and entertaining. It also seems like almost literally every single character is complex and interesting and multi-layered. (Only the background characters like Maru’s lackeys are undeveloped, but honestly they really don’t need any development anyway.) The relationships between characters keep getting more and more complex, and the situations that the characters have to deal with are also super juicy. This is such an addicting series.

My initial problem with Romeo and Juliet’s relationship was that it seemed pretty unhealthy and one-sided to me. Later, I found it very weird how sexually immature they both are, and how un-intimate their relationship is. What is interesting is that someone in the actual manga also has some similar feelings, and sees their relationship as unstable and bound to fail, and thinks so because of the same reasons.

“In the future, if those two continue to hover around each other uselessly…
Like toothless gears rubbing together, then they’ll break apart sooner or later.”


This is what I’ve been saying since volume one!!!! Although I was very unnerved by their relationship in the beginning, I’m actually really cheering for them now and want the best for them. But in the end this is Romeo and Juliet, which does not end well… So spicy!!! I need to know what’s going to happen!!

Also I really just want them to have some fricken intimacy for once, Jesus Christ. I’m not asking for some freaky hentai sex or anything, but god damn they’ve been dating for three volumes and they still get nervous asking each other out on dates, and I’m still waiting for a god damn kiss. The lack of proper romance still isn’t anything that ACTUALLY bothers me, though, I’m just flabbergasted at how vanilla it is.

Brb again, praying to the licensing gods that this’ll be picked up by western publishers some time soon. *Edit:* You can actually buy an english e-book of the first volume now, officially licenced as Boarding School Juliet! Weird, I didn't know that was a thing. But apparently Kodansha (a publishing house) is doing this thing where they release e-books before they print them? To test the waters or something? I don't really care for it since I'm a book/manga collector, so I just want them to start printing these, damn it!!! *Edit #2*: They're now officially being printed, hurrah!!


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Volumes: 1, 2, 3*, 4

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