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A review by alexis_sara
The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This, Vol. 2 by いけだたかし, Takashi Ikeda
5.0
While I said in my previous review I wasn't rushing to pick up the second volume, I did in fact pick up the next volume very quickly after. I lied to the internet and myself, I can't help but enjoy a wholesome pair of adult ladies living a life together.
Wako's career starts to move forward and she learns about Yuri Bait from her two other co-leads on the anime she is voice acting for. Kyoko and Mirei become main stays of the cast for at least this volume with Kyoko's hidden feelings under the fake baiting becoming clear. It adds some more romantic drama and a second one sided romance with Ataru's pinning for Ellie ending up with them meeting.
This story does cut between different characters perspective from time to time mostly keeping their eyes on Ellie and Wako but going to the other sapphics around them. We also get to meet one of Ellie's fan girls, well a fan girl of one of the BL works she has made. The author is clearly trying to give us a sense of place and world despite this just being out world.
Wako and Ellie's relationship does get a bit more tension with Ellie in particularly clearly starting to feel insecure about Wako's affections for her. This minor drama doesn't stop the wholesome feeling and doesn't going into "just talk to each other" annoyance territory. This volumes addition of showing that these lesbians and sapphics have sex is nice and good, it's good to see something clearly aiming for wholesome not feeling the need to ignore the fact that these people have sex lives.
What I'd really like to see from future volumes is more exploring queer identity. I wanna hear like what does Ellie think about her own sexuality with Wako being the only woman she has ever been with and ever wanted to be with. Wako is a lesbian but she doesn't seem to have every attempted to jump into the culture despite living in the city. I'd love little dips into that but I'd be happy just exploring where these new characters go and keeping up Wako and Ellie's love. I really would love to see them work on a project together and the dynamics that presents for them. Given this is being created right now and we are going through a yuri renaissance I'd love to see one of them work on a yuri project and see how exploring sapphic stuff in their work feels for them.
Overall, unlike the first volume, I leave this one knowing I want to read Volume 3, I think it's really good, I love that the women are drawn to actually look like adults, rejecting the kinda moe style a lot of Yuri is drawn in. I love this series and it might be a nicer wholesome treat then one of my all times favs Kase-san.
Wako's career starts to move forward and she learns about Yuri Bait from her two other co-leads on the anime she is voice acting for. Kyoko and Mirei become main stays of the cast for at least this volume with Kyoko's hidden feelings under the fake baiting becoming clear. It adds some more romantic drama and a second one sided romance with Ataru's pinning for Ellie ending up with them meeting.
This story does cut between different characters perspective from time to time mostly keeping their eyes on Ellie and Wako but going to the other sapphics around them. We also get to meet one of Ellie's fan girls, well a fan girl of one of the BL works she has made. The author is clearly trying to give us a sense of place and world despite this just being out world.
Wako and Ellie's relationship does get a bit more tension with Ellie in particularly clearly starting to feel insecure about Wako's affections for her. This minor drama doesn't stop the wholesome feeling and doesn't going into "just talk to each other" annoyance territory. This volumes addition of showing that these lesbians and sapphics have sex is nice and good, it's good to see something clearly aiming for wholesome not feeling the need to ignore the fact that these people have sex lives.
What I'd really like to see from future volumes is more exploring queer identity. I wanna hear like what does Ellie think about her own sexuality with Wako being the only woman she has ever been with and ever wanted to be with. Wako is a lesbian but she doesn't seem to have every attempted to jump into the culture despite living in the city. I'd love little dips into that but I'd be happy just exploring where these new characters go and keeping up Wako and Ellie's love. I really would love to see them work on a project together and the dynamics that presents for them. Given this is being created right now and we are going through a yuri renaissance I'd love to see one of them work on a yuri project and see how exploring sapphic stuff in their work feels for them.
Overall, unlike the first volume, I leave this one knowing I want to read Volume 3, I think it's really good, I love that the women are drawn to actually look like adults, rejecting the kinda moe style a lot of Yuri is drawn in. I love this series and it might be a nicer wholesome treat then one of my all times favs Kase-san.