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Yeah! Sure, WA2 ends on a very questionable note, but the initial premise was interesting. Love triangles tend to be fairly one-dimensional. Girls fighting over the guy's attention etc. WA2 was cool precisely because it wasn't a love triangle from the get-go, but gradually turned into one...

That was a deeply disturbing opening chapter... "Oh, a romcom with clairvoyance, this could be fun!" Cue a friggin kid that she's about to groom. What the fuck, Japan...

Some thoughts: Premise-wise, I like this - you have your three friends, two of whom are slowly becoming a couple and the binding friend who really doesn't give a crap about all this love stuff and is the BEST friend of both sides of the couple leading to this complicated relationship dilemma of...

What I think would be the most interesting conclusion to the arc is if Junpei, with his deep regret over having delivered a methodical, 'correct' yet boring variation, would actually end up winning the competition. It would be so deeply painful to feel such a hollow victory, especially after...

Yo, what the heck is this. Last chapter was already spoiling us rotten, but now it's just unbelievable. That page 6 dark face silhouette of Miyako hinting at the things she does not want to say out loud. Page 17 with the godly inverted color panel. The beautifully fitting way Junpei tries to...

Sometimes the comment section on here is more entertaining than the manga. "Shinsuke is spineless" - The chapter literally ends with him making up his mind and asking to go with Kiyoka. "Kiyoka is 180ing into a yandere" - The chapter literally ends with her conceding and offering to go all...

That was painful to read. Like not in the sense that the writing is bad, but just insane second-hand embarrassment for Yukiya. It's so odd how he seems so assertive and normal near Miku, but throw him into any normal social situation with more people and he looks like the most socially awkward dork.

Unbelievable chapter. One fascinating point I always found about japanese art, be it visual mediums like manga and anime, but also dancing and singing, is how much emphasis there is on capturing 'beautiful things'. The japanese just have this love for something that I can only describe as...

Eh, on one hand - neat to see she's taking initiative and this isn't dragging it on. On the other - that is an unbelievably forced way to make him decide. If you present this whole narrative of having to pick a gf over a friend, maybe don't actuate it into some dramatic decision just 2-3...

You know, if this really is the angle the mangaka was going for, they did a pretty poor job of communicating it. Or it's somehow lost in translation. By that I mean Hinaki really only seeing him as a best friend and not developing feelings. If it really is the angle, I think it's original and...

I think a lesser mangaka would have had Junpei ignore the advice and then get himself in deep trouble over nerves to generate some easy tension for the reader, but the author here has already established that Junpei, rebellious as he is, has learned to trust his teachers and so it would come off...

This manga irrationally pisses me off. It has so much potential: the premise is great, characters are fantastic, the art is beautiful. However, the scene writing and overall flow of the story is an absolute disaster. It's so incoherent, so all over the place. It's like the author has ADHD...

Probably my favorite aspect of Dance Dance from a writing perspective is that Junpei is 'naturally talented' but it's only helping him a bit, rather than automatically making him amazing. He doesn't win anything yet, people are only believing in his potential so far. We also constantly see...

Kind of shocked Kyouka hasn't been aware of Shin's feelings. It felt fitting of her character to have that level of social awareness, but just mental-block those feelings since she felt he was already an item with Hinaki. So this really decreased her character writing in my eyes. Hinaki trying...

I'm glad she had her revelation to be a character in the story and not the outlooker, but given how this was at the core of her character narrative, I would have expected a more explosive & emotional scene. Granted, in some way, it's quite fitting for Kiyoka to do all this mental legwork in her...

Of all the sports manga, I feel like ballet is one of the most interesting, because it can have such extreme narratives of failure, due to how ruthless the field competition is. You have to sacrifice your entire childhood, build up barely any transferable skills, the margin of success to 'make...

"Dating Miku is my goal, but... It's also not" Friggin hell, I lost it reading that ahahahaha. True philosopher over here.

Ok...? I get that she exists as a vehicle for Natsuki and Junpei's relationship to create jealousy & help Junpei make up his mind that he maybe likes her (or doesn't and is still hung up on Miyako) but that was just insanely forced. Maybe it'll backtrack on all this in the next ch then it's...

"You should try loving me a little more" is such an amazing phrase, but also something I would absolutely never imagine a middleschooler saying. It's a funny 'flaw' with this manga in that the middleschoolers act too much like actual adults at times. Author really has no chill with the "so much...

Looking back, yeah, it's just first year and 3rd year, but I always had the impression their age gap was at least 3 years. She did say her age at some point when they met, need to find that chapter. But regardless it has that weirdness to it for me.