5/21/2023 0 Comments Classmates by Asumiko Nakamura![]() ![]() This tone is rather at odds with the pacing, as after the surprisingly quick romantic developments in the first chapter (titled “Summer”), the next chapter (“Autumn”) suggests that the two are walking home together but not doing much else, like they’ve stalled out. ![]() Certainly the readers don’t know much about them by this point or have any reason to root for them.Ĭlassmates sometimes tries to portray itself in a languid tone, such as how it attempts to establish the atmosphere around Kusakabe and Sajo before digging into their personal selves. Classmates takes this a bit too fast for even my tastes however: within the first chapter we have Kusakabe planting a kiss on Sajo and it feels like this is all happening before the boys even know each other. By not dragging things out the series got to be a story about characters in a relationship rather than a story about characters who might get into a relationship. ![]() ![]() That was something I enjoyed when reading the Kase-san and series. There is something to be said about romances that don’t engage in an overly long “will they or won’t they” period and cut to the chase. Kusakabe offers to tutor him until the day of the recital but it seems like these feelings might linger after that. While Kusukabe Hikaru and Sajo Rihito are second-year students in high school and in the same class, they’ve never really talked with each other before - not until Kusakabe finds Sajo hiding and secretly practicing a song for class. ![]()
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