RyōIchino‘ Double the trouble, twice the better More or less a combination of two familiar comic-like tropes: adults and hot girls pets who become kids. English readers may be better off remembering them matsuri hino‘ Meru Puri and Yayoi Ogawa‘ You are my petbut these are not the only series that use them; Gao Kezhi horse pictures‘ Sayonara, Otokonokoalso in French bid farewellis a particularly good example of the former. But, using Trope in Shigematsu to explore places with darker themes, just like Ogawa has done with her series Double the trouble, twice the better Most interested in becoming a stupid romcom.
That was definitely not let go. In the first volume, Ichino’s series is very interesting, taking advantage of familiar genre beats and making them pleasing, even if they’re nothing new. The heroine Yuki satisfies two of the comics’ most familiar burdens: the debt dad and the terrible boyfriend. The former frightened and risked losing her family’s house (her mother was late), while the latter just abandoned her. He is her boss, which complicates things, especially when she realizes in the book that he is not throwing her to another woman- Once was Another woman. Although we’ve seen both plot points before, their specific confluence here makes Yuki’s life bad enough (albeit overloaded) to offset the supernatural aspect of the story.
That would be the boy she was abandoned on her way home. She found a child who looked like a five-year-old collapsed on the street near her home, and as a good person, she picked him up and brought him in. (She has a bad phone, so she can’t call the ambulance or the police.) She stuffs him in the bed, recharges her phone, and goes to bed…just wake up next to a handsome young man. It turns out that when he took it off he had a weird necklace and despite his true form being his adult, he loved Yuki very much and kept him with her for a while. From her better judgement, she agreed, unveiled the story, although everything mentioned so far is actually important.
This book is probably the greatest power, nothing is just a dressing for windows. Yuki’s relationship fails, her financial strait and even her mother’s death plays the main story of the relationship with Ren. His true identity explains why he can help her, but the bigger problem Why He wants to keep it unrevealed (although we can guess) and push the romance…just like Yuki’s desperate efforts to embrace all the wild plot twists of his life. One of these things she might be able to handle, but all of them are too much, and the poor woman is mostly spent on the verge of collapse as she tries to parse what is happening, both her and what is around her. The only thing she could master was that Ren was younger than her even in his adult form. He is still an adult (almost; he is legal anyway), but she is not satisfied with their age gap, and that’s what she can catch. It was specific, and there was little else about her situation.
For some readers, that age gap (his twenty-eight years old) may be within the knee of death. Although this is not scary, by the numbers, there is a big gap there in maturity. Apart from letting the reader know his cleverness, he still doesn’t seem to have a real reason, but Ichino does a good job suggesting he’s much younger than he’s revealed through the plot clues, and when he starts ordering beer and quickly changing it to tea, the best is the best. There is nothing in the story aside from a gentle kiss, and Yuki does treat Ren like a younger brother or a roommate, which in some way frustrates him. Although he actively hides his true identity, he will have some hindering most of her volumes.
Double the trouble, twice the betterThe first volume of the Romance Realm is not new or deep. It has its problems, but in most cases, creators use various familiar elements to create something that is still interesting, even if it is recognizable. The art is clear and clear, making the volume very easy to read and the translation is particularly readable. It’s a good brain break when you need to relax, and even if I suspect it’s not new, I’m curious to see where it goes.
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