In Volume 1, we met Sahoko, who had some kind of feelings about her classmate Aoi. In Kyou, Koshiba Aoi ni Aetara, Volume 2 (今日、小柴葵に会えたら) the story gets infinitely more complex. Sahoko is falling for Koshiba Aoi, but Anna is falling for Sahoko. A fun afternoon doing karaoke puts them in proximity, but does not help solve either of their problems.

Worse, though, Aoi herself has fallen in love… with a guy, and has asked Sahoko for help. What’s worse than helping the girl you like look beautiful for someone else? Sahoko follows them to find out, and ends up sitting with Aoi.

Meanwhile, in the future, Koshiba Aoi won’t be joining them again, today.

As I said in my review of Volume 1, I really like Fly’s art.  But Takeoka Hazuki’s story has taken on a Waiting for Godot feel at this point, since Koshiba Aoi isn’t coming now, or maybe ever? If she won’t come to see Sahoko, what happened between them? Tune in to the next volume to find out!

Ratings:

Art – 9
Story – 7
Characters – 7
Service – 2
Yuri – 6

Overall – 7

Kodansha has licensed this series as Chasing After Aoi Koshiba. Volume 1 is slated for a March 2021 release, with Volume 2 arriving in May!

Douseiseikatsu 3 Watashi ha Anata dake no mono (同棲生活3 わたしは貴方だけのもの) is the third volume of Miyuki and Yuuko doing absolutely nothing and I’m pleased as punch about it. Volume 1 and Volume 2 were relaxed and, despite the slightly assertive title, Volume 3 is no less chill.

Miyuki and Yuuko live together. They love each other. Life is made up of stupid in-jokes, lazy afternoons snuggling, relentlessly teasing one another and being extremely happy in each other’s company with, yes, the occasional actual relationship problem to be addressed. 

As with previous volumes, this is a full color snippet-at-a time slice of life manga. We do see some of their friends and colleagues in this issue, but more often we spend time with them alone together. The final chapters look back at when they began dating and realizing that they liked each other a lot…and deciding to live together.

Satsumaage’s art is visibly improving and there are way more details than previously, which gives the panels some depth.

As an not-too-intimate look at an established couple, this manga feels a little too on the money sometimes, but is generally a pleasant way to pass the time.

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story – 8
Characters – 9
Service  – 1 Almost none, really
LGBTQ – 9

Overall – 9

It still makes a good “just a couple of pages” at night before bed kind of story. ^_^

Hayama-sensei and Terano-sensei have been together about a year now. Their colleagues think they are adorable together and so do their students. They love each other very much. So what conflicts can they possible face, in Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteiru, Volume 3 (羽山先生と寺野先生は付き合っている)?

WELL.

There’s the time that time they go on a ski trip with the other teachers and get caught in a storm and Terano-sensei is lost….only that didn’t happen. Instead they snuggle all night in the cabin until they can ski back down the hill the next morning.

LET’S NOT FORGET

The day where Hayama-sensei has to do external continuing ed and misses Saki so much she sighs out loud…and meets another woman from a different school who misses her lover, who happens to also be the school’s gym teacher. So she gains a friend who is another queer adult woman and they promise to stay in touch.

OMG, THOUGH

Their 1st anniversary is approaching! So they buy thoughtful gifts for one another and spend an night together…and decide to live together.

OH, BUT

There’s the time when there is rumor of a haunted vase in the school. Only, Terano-sensei put that vase there.

So, do not expect there to be angst. I mean, there is. It’s whole panels worth of gut-wrenching concern and occasional irrational panic. But mostly this manga is about two adult women who love each other a lot and sometimes enjoy sex together.

Ratings:

Art – 9
Characters – 10
Story – 9
Service – 7 There is nudity and sex, but it feels less salacious than it actually is, because on the cover we are literally watching them in the bath.
Yuri – 10

Overall – 10

It’s all so wholesome and functional, it hardly feels like we’re creepy voyeurs, which we are. ^_^

I know what’s coming, too, because magazine(!) and it’ll just get more and more squee.

Volume 1 of this series is out in English as Our Teachers Are Dating, Volume 1 and Volume 2 is slated for a January 2021 release.