As Volume 5 of Kanojo to Camera to Kanojo no Kisetsu (彼女とカメラと彼女の季節）opens, we’re facing a terrible moment. Yuki, who has never before been obviously malicious, is showing Akari a picture of Rintarou, half-naked in bed. Akari refuses to be cowed and asks Yuki about the picture, at which Yuki crumbles. It turns out that she’s […]

In Yuri Manga: Kanojo to Camera to Kanojo no Kisetsu, Volume 1 (彼女とカメラと彼女の季節）Volume 1  we meet Akari, an unremarkable high school student who is mesmerized by an ethereal and odd classmate, Yuki. The only person Yuki seems to be on speaking terms with is Rintarou, who likes Akari. Akari is compelled by her interest in Yuki to take […]

At the end of Volume 2 of  Kanojo to Camera to Kanojo no Kisetsu (彼女とカメラと彼女の季節), it appeared to us that loner Yuki was retreating from Akari, and pushing her towards Rintarou. As Volume 3 opens, her gambit seems to be working. Akari and Rin are definitely growing closer – and Akari’s happy about that. They go […]

In volume 1 of Kanojo to Camera to Kanojo no Kisetsu, (彼女とカメラと彼女の季節) we met typical high school student Akari, atypical highschool student Yuki, who is a photographer and asocial outlier in class and sports hero student Fukuyama, Yuki’s childhood friend, who is interested in Akari. Volume 2 begins with Akari experiencing an epiphany about her […]

Even after all the many, many volumes of manga I have read, every once in a while, a manga really surprises me. Kanojo to Camera to Kanojo no Kisetsu (彼女とカメラと彼女の季節）helpfully shortened to “Kano Came” on the cover, is one of those manga. Akari is a very typical high school girl. She and her friends trade […]