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Review: 寄宿学校のジュリエット（４）

寄宿学校のジュリエット（４） 寄宿学校のジュリエット（４） by 金田陽介
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’ve been purposely not swearing in my reviews for the past while because I’ve found that I don’t like reading them there, but I must now make an exception…… (Click for fitting background music)

Angry

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M SO FUCKING MAD! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Head wall slam

THAT EEEEEEEEEEEENDING!!!!!! (For context, this volume ended on Chapter 20: “Sea, Romeo, and Juliet Part 1”) First of all: I can’t believe they ended the volume like that. Second of all: I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY EVEN DID THAT AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh wait, actually, I can. I can very easily believe it, and had the bad feeling that they would do that, BUT I WAS VEHEMENTLY SCREAMING FOR THEM NOT TO ANYWAY!!!!!!!!! BUT. THEY. FUCKNG. DID!

Sigh

Ahem. Other than swearing, I also never gif spam (and frankly hate it when other people do…), but this is clearly a special case we have here. I am livid. I am the embodiment of wrath itself. They fucking baited me. They baited me so hard. I saw it coming, but I wanted the reward so… so badly…

Tears

Literally none of this review will make sense if you haven’t read this series, but if you’ve read any of the previous volumes you might be able to get it. Or if you read my Reading Comment. I suggest you don’t do that though because then you’ll definitely catch on and lose the anticipation for when you read it yourself. Though, from this review so far, I might’ve already given it away. ^^” Let’s try and make this an actually somewhat useful and less spoiler-y review, now.

Have my complaints from the previous volumes been fixed yet? NO. (view spoiler)
Is the art still good? ...Duh? It’s not something that I’m still super enamored by or anything though.
Is it still funny? There is never a chapter that fails to make me laugh multiple times! The comedy is one of the best things about this series.
Is the storyline/drama continuing to be juicy? Like always. The first three chapters of this volume finish up the Romeo, Juliet, and Birthdays arc which was started at the end of the last volume. Can mangakas please stop starting new arcs at the end of volumes please??? For my sanity’s sake???

I don’t know what the heck that Q&A thing was supposed to be, but we both knew from the start that this wasn’t going to be a standard review. Manga sequels are always weird to review, anyway. There’s always a million volumes and it’s like, who’s going to read your review of the 57th volume of Naruto? No one. They’re going to be too busy reading the actual volume to give a shit about your opinion, that’s why reviews always get less and less “likes” the deeper you go into the volumes. Except for my review of volume 7 of My Hero Academia somehow got more likes than I usually get??? It was another rant-review because they chose the worst possible spot to end the volume, lmao. Not that I actually care about likes, obviously. If I was in this game for likes then I would have quit 200 book reviews ago. I don’t know what this paragraph is. 2meta4me


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