Hiromi Takashima

A sequel series that follows up on two girls who fell in love in high school and shows how they are navigating their relationship as college freshmen. It's sweet, chaste, and mellow, with low-key problems like making time to see one another when their colleges are almost an hour apart across Tokyo and being jealous of each other's new friend and new roommate.

To frustrate indexers and confuse newbies, the cover is numbered as both Kase-san and . . . Book 6 and Kase-san and Yamada Vol. 1. The show more straightforward presentation should make it easy for newbies to jump on here without reading the first five books that were set in high school. show less

Kase and Yamada have to be apart for most of their summer break, but they manage to find some time together at a hometown summer festival and at a beach on the Izu peninsula. The romance is sweet with mild drama provided by Yamada's jealousy and anxiety that she'll lose Kase to someone better and contrasting humor as Kase's possessiveness causes her to step between Yamada and any male with a wandering eye.

Okay. Let me start off by saying I don't read/watch many manga/anime at all. This manga came to me highly recommended because I'm a wlw and fell in love with the anime Yuri on Ice for its respectful representation of gay men. So, yeah, my knowledge of the Japanese genres of yaoi and yuri is fairly limited, but I know they're basically LGBT porn genres for the enjoyment of straight people. Basically fetishization.

Anyway, my friend recommended this (yuri) manga to me because they insisted it show more didn't feel like the "usual" yuri-type manga and because it would soon be adapted to an anime, so sure, I'd give it a try.

I wish I liked it better! :S

Unfortunately, I was extremely uncomfortable reading this. From the first chapter (this goodreads edition might BE just the first chapter? But I read to 5), there was the love interest drenching herself in water to show her bra through a wet shirt, then close-up thigh shots, close-up mouth shots drinking from water bottles, etc. These are high school students, mind you. Apparently most yuri manga are about underage girls (and are extremely sexual about their relationships, and this manga might be the LEAST sexual/sexualized when it comes to them). I don't know. It made ME extremely uncomfortable reading about it, and I'M attracted to women/girls.

The plot also lagged, I think? It's pretty much a "slice of life"-type story between these two girls from different high school classes. If they weren't so sexualized and if the plot explored more than just "in this chapter Kase-San buys Yamada shoes!!" with 100% less "I can't like Kase-San because she's a GIRL" I would be more interested.

Anyway, long story short: it made me uncomfortable and I probably won't be reading on. show less

The relationship gets a little more settled and a little more physical. Maybe it's time to introduce an old flame to shake things up?