Sasaki and Miyano Volume 05 Review

[Sarah]

The latest instalment of this accessible and convincing Boys’ Love manga highlights the insecurities felt by both Sasaki and Miyano as they try to understand how they feel about each other.

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[Demelza]

It does bug me a little that the team decided to swap out fudanshi, given the target audience almost certainly knows what that term means. Heck, Seven Seas released a series where they kept fudanshi in the title. Maybe it's just weird to me because we have these two characters where one is super into otaku culture and the other is learning from him, at some point Miyano has certainly explained to Sasaki (and thus us) what these terminologies mean.

Anyway, that minor gripe aside - Another good volume! I'm enjoying revisiting this content even despite having just seen it in the anime. The addition of the Hirano extra chapters certainly helps, I hope Yen eventually licenses their spin-off when they're more caught up with the main series.

 

[Sarah]

That's a good point re. Miyano doing the explaining earlier on. I'm just relieved that the honorifics haven't been translated too: 'Mya-chan' is just not going to work well in English! (The French translation seems to have completely omitted 'senpai' and 'kouhai' which is an 'interesting' choice to make. It feels a little...lacking.)

But yes, let's hope Yen bring us the spin-off series before too long (the art book would be nice too).