I’m not a fan of age gaps when the girl is older than the guy, but in this case I am actually liking that possibility. I think they’re really cute together, and it’s slightly less cliche than if a romance was hinted between Sawa and Hajime. I think a lot of people were expecting that. Actually when Riku was first introduced, I thought he would make for a good romantic lead as well.
I remember when I first started reading this I was actually hoping something would happen with Riku. It was mostly because of a mistranslation of him saying he wanted to eat lunch with her, when it was actually about her classmate. I was so sad to find out what the actual translation was, ‘cause I’d started rooting for them lol
Yeah I think that’s why I thought that too, even though in the end it seems to me like
Riku actually liked Sass’s friend.
I know Natsuki Takaya is releasing one shots here and there for this weeks, maybe one day she’ll clarify those lose ends.
I’m actually torn about whether or not I’m okay with the ending. It was bittersweet to me, and something I should’ve seen coming with the buildup to it, but I guess I feel like I was expecting something else?
I will say, going from the cat in the original to the son of the god was interesting, to say the least. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it, I guess?
I’d give it an 8/10 only because we don’t see anything done about the mother, and it’s left kinda open. Hopefully Natsuki-sensei enlightens us about any other details this sequel could have (and I’d reeeeaaaalllly wish we’d seen the original Zodiac show up more than a shadowy Kyou with Hajime, I wanted to see my babies all grown up ╥﹏╥).