Gorgeous but sometimes the artwork is hard to see properly because of the Viz watermark on the ARC.

Toma's love still shines through in every panel and maybe it's beginning to be reciprocated.

Very very slow burn.

Ended on a cliffhanger. ( )

Not as good as the first volume as the story stumbles around a bit, mostly poking around the edges of the big reveal from last time instead of addressing it directly. Also, the storytelling does not flow as smoothly, making me think I was missing panels or pages as it jumped around in the first few chapters. Eventually, it settled into the sports festival trope and plopped in a high-stakes cliffhanger out of nowhere.

I worry that the creator is either flailing to find a direction or is intent on treading water instead of progressing the storyline, but I'm still invested in where these characters and their tangle of crushes are going. And I already have the third volume on hand, so here we go! ( )