Nene Yukimori

I don't think anyone will be surprised by the warm and fuzzy ending to this sweet and slow-paced romance. It gives the audience what they want, though maybe with twice the number of volumes necessary.

Turns out this is the penultimate volume which explains why the main characters suddenly realize that maybe they have feelings other than friendship lurking somewhere in their innocent little hearts. They spend most of the book dithering about in the most darling of ways.

I'll miss the characters, but it's probably a good idea to wrap things instead of stretching this out any further.

Treading water in the cutest way possible.

And Junta Shiraishi's role in the haunted house his class is putting on for a school festival is perhaps the best use of his power to fade into the background in the whole series.

It looks like there are only two volumes left in the series, so I assume there will be some major breakthroughs in the sloooooowly evolving status quo very soon. And yeah, I'll admit I'm about ready to be done with this.

This series is tending toward the too mild again, but I'm going to round up from 2.5 stars because -- even though they are loaded with cliches -- I like the chapters about Kubo's birthday and the fireworks at a summer festival.

But without some sort of shake-up in the relationship status quo soon, I might find myself drifting away from this series no matter how cute the characters are together.