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Daytime Shooting Star, tome 5 by Mika Yamamori

half_bloodreader's review against another edition

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Mangaka: "Shishio has gradually turned into a terrible grown-up, but I hope you won't give up on him"
Me: haha hahaha ha 🙃🙃

Nothing indecent has happened or anything, but the closeness and him leading her on is still inappropriate 

This volume includes the short Cookie Girl, Cream Boy, which is actually the cutest story by the author that I've read so far. It's still not that impressive thou 🤷‍♀️

originstorytoloveisdestroy's review against another edition

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4.0

As the main character continues to feel confused as to where she lies in her teacher's life, she finally receives the answer that he feels the same way she does as a Daytime Shooting Star. I feel bad for her desperately, cause she feels like he simply cares for her because he's a caring teacher over a caring boyfriend / potential boyfriend. I don't blame her at all, he's constantly jumping back and forth.

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2.0

Shishio-sensei is getting irritating. I like Susume to end up with Mamura. If the mangaka won't stop the love story with Shishio, I'm going to drop the series. I just don't like the teacher meddling with a potential couple. In some mangas, it is a fine plot, but here the teacher is old for the heroine. He also has this uncertainty unlike his student Mamora.

jjamy55's review against another edition

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3.0

Too bad, this was actually my favorite cover! Look at Mamura's dad!!! So handsome... I remembered there were some of my least favorite chapters in this volume, what a shame!

helicuetaro's review against another edition

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3.0

Still like the book but the more I think about Sensei having 24/25 and Suzume, 16, I shiver in disapproval.

rinku's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Re-Read September 2022

All the characters have such a great development in this volume and the setting of the school fest is so nice as well, even though a bit cliché. I also love how some of the side characters get more depth, like Togyu. It’s so cute how he comforts Yuyuka. Besides this, it’s great to see how reflective Suzume is concerning her feelings.

Original Review May 2021

This moment between Shishio and Daiki though.

shaegeeksout's review against another edition

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4.0

I didn't enjoy this volume quite as much, as I feel it is forcing the teacher/student relationship. I am rooting for the other one, so this volume wasn't as fun for me. I did like how the school festival was handled, but I am seriously not going for the teacher/student part of this. If they end up together in the end, I am going to be super upset and mad.

ruthsic's review against another edition

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3.0

It's time for the school festival, which means a break from regular activities and people seeing each other in meet-cute scenarios. Suzume and her class are doing a maid & butler cafe so there are cute outfits galore, and Nekota is doing the school play which means she looks gorgeous as Juliet, and she wants to confess her feelings to Mamura, and there is this upperclassman who is also into her, so it is like a season of crushes going on.

Look, I know this was coming, but you can't blame me for cringing because we are heading into YIKES territory. Suzume is trying to get over Shishio, but now she is getting mixed signals from him and while she tries to tell herself that maybe he is just kind to all students, he just has to tell her that he also likes spending time with her, further pulling her into this mess. Mamura is hostile to Suzume (which she doesn't deserve) and Shishio (which he totally deserves) and even calls him out on trying to seduce a high school student, which the latter gives a puzzling reply to. Like, Shishio knows it is wrong (he is 10 years older, and she is a naive 15 year old unexperienced in love, for chrissake! And instead of staying away, he engineers scenarios in which he can be near her. I mean, even if he is a man-child who relates well to teens and finds her company in which he can be his true self, it is still skeevy. I don't care if I would have found it cute if he was also a high school student - just the power differential between them has me going: "STEP AWAY FROM THE UNDERAGE GIRL!" and never mind the fact that anyone who comes across them (her uncles, her friends) think they are just interacting normally.

The other part of this volume is an unrelated short story manga about a 'refined' underclassman confessing his feelings for an 'unrefined' upperclassman girl, and she initially refuses but soon comes to like him. I was just weirded out by the fixation on skin color (she is darker-skinned, despite no tone being added, while he is light-skinned) so I am just like how is that the basis for a story?

angieinthemorning's review against another edition

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3.0

Shishio/Suzume, zzzzzzz.
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