Kanojo ni Naru Hi Another Chapter 2

Konnichiwa~

Sagara and Narumi, the couple
of this story. 

Chapter 2 of Kanojo ni Naru Another came out! Well it actually came out awhile ago…..sorry !

Despite being a pretty late, I want to review it. I really liked it and it would really bother me to never talk about it! So let’s begin:

After deciding to be friends, Sagara and Kurosawa begin spending more time together. Sagara having been a loner most of her life, isn't really sure how to act around her. Plus she's still dealing with the fact that she is now a "she", no longer a "he". She won't even buy a bra because she considers that giving into defeat and letting her past self, the person she's been for so long, disappear.

In the first series, they focused more on the tension between the main characters . Which was done well, but I think it didn’t take advantage of the psychology of emergence. Emergence is a very unique situation and the author does a better job of analyzing the emotional impact of it. Having both Kurosawa and Sagara was smart, it allows you to compare and contrast the experience of two different characters. Even though Kurosawa had the advantage of emerging at an earlier age and seems to have completely accepted her life as a girl, you can argue that liking girls is her final protest.

It wasn’t made very clear in the original series, but its be made clear that emerged boys begin liking boys after some time. I thought it was odd that so many boys simply forgot about their attraction to girls and developed a new attraction for males after they became biologically female. In this series, multiple characters state that its natural to develop such feelings because emergence is a tool used by the ecosystem to ensure that there are enough breeding pairs (Does this mean there aren’t any homosexuals in this

While Narumi got a color-page and
more intimate pose, Kurosawa got this.
I love Sagara's discomfort here though

alternative universe? I have no idea, everyone makes it sound like being a girl means you’ll eventually like boys). Anyway, because of the society the manga depicts, it can be said Kurosawa still preferring girls is a way of rebelling against emergence. Even if she acts and dresses like a girl, she doesn’t like boys and she never will, because originally she, was a he.

I’ve become very fond of her character after reading this chapter, after seeing the depths of her feelings for Sagara. When she first confessed, though I found her an interesting element to the story, I thought her feelings were very shallow, based only on appearances. But she reveals how deeply she cares about Sagara. At first glance, some of her actions might seem selfish, but just wait and see: she’ll prove how much she cares about Sagara’s feelings and well-being. Kurosawa wants to comfort and assist Sagara whose just emerged and is obviously struggling with it.

Sadly, I think her character is going to lose in this love triangle.

Narumi claims his rival is Sagara, but why does he blush so much when he’s around her? He may flirt with Kurosawa, but Kurosawa can never get him to such embarrassed faces. Plus, he had no problem accepting the fact she was an ex-boy, so the fact that Sagara used to be a boy won’t stop him for long.

Kurosawa will become the friend loner Sagara never had, at least that’s my theory.

I hope I’m wrong and this manga isn’t so predictable, even if it is, I’m really enjoying and I hope the rest of you are as well.

Bye-bye

~Nadeshiko-chan