Toru

What a fun concept! I'm always a sucker for secret identities and love squares, so this is a fun story for me. Shuumei sees a girl working at a maid cafe, and falls head over heels for her. Except, he's too scared to go into the maid cafe, both out of embarrassment and for fear of looking like a creep. So he decides to dress up as a girl to visit the maid cafe, because it's not creepy when girls go to maid cafes, right? I'm not going to lie, this massive leap in his logic is honestly hilarious to me. It's very much, only a teenager would come up with this kind of idea. Shuumei, now dressed as "Mei", gets to formally meet and interact with the girl he has a crush on, Hana! But unbeknownst to him, Hana is actually Hanae! Hanae dresses as a girl to boost his confidence and to "recreate" his persona and works in the cafe while dressing as a girl. Hanae, whilst working at Hana, meets Mei, who he immediately falls head over heels for. This story honestly has fun playing around with concepts of gender, and the concepts of LGBT love. If not for this secret identity story, it would honestly read exactly like a common high school shojo romance. This first volume doesn't have a lot of meat plot-wise, but again, it's volume one. It's mostly doing the setup and introducing characters for later. This romantic comedy series has plenty of potential that I'm super excited to read! I look forward to the next volumes!… (more)