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Manga: Aishiteruze Baby Vol. 2

Warning: This document contains spoilers!

Story: 8
In this volume Kippei continues to take care for Yuzuyu, however when he tries to combine that with starting a serious relationship with Kokoro, he forgets to make Yuzuyu lunch or to collect her from school. Yuzu feels that she has become a burden to Kippei and decides she is going to take care of herself from now on. She tries to walk home by herself but she ends up being lost.

I find this volume as strong as the first. It continues on the same serious tone. This time there aren’t negative influences from the outside, but it is all about Yuzu’s insecurities to lose Kippei to someone else. Kokoro plays a bigger part in this volume then in the last and more of her background is revealed.

A fun bonus is an extra chapter where the readers see Kippei when he was Yuzuyu’s age just before his brother was born, and how he too was afraid to lose his place to his brother. The selfish feelings from the 5 year olds come across as very realistic.

Art: 8.5
The artwork stays of the same quality as volume 1. In my opinion Yoko Maki manages to get the emotions of the characters across to the reader. Further I don’t have anything to add in order not to repeat myself.

Characters: 8
Yuzu gets a letter from her mother and therefore she is reminded how much she misses her. Now there is the chance that Yuzuyu has to share his attention with Kokoro, and Kippei keeps making mistakes in taking care for her, Yuzu feels she has become a burden. She wants to be a big girl so that Kippei doesn’t have to worry about her and can spend more time with Kokoro. However since she can’t make it home alone from school, she only ends up worrying Kippei and the others more.

This volume concentrates more on Kokoro. The reader gets to see a part of her past. Also the relationship between her and Kippei develops in this series; however they both realize that Yuzuyu needs Kippei the most right now and they break up again.

Volume 2 wasn’t as endearing is the previous one. It is clear that Kippei finally is ready for a serious relationship, however it is hard to combine this with the care Yuzuyu needs. I, as reader, could clearly feel how he wants both and tries to juggle to get it, but ends up needing to give up his wishes for Yuzuyu. It also comes across how hard Kippei finds this to do.

In the end of the volume Yuzu’s mother pops up, but there isn’t much revealed about her yet, except what she writes in her letter to Yuzuyu.

Overall: 8
This volume continues on the same level of quality then the previous one. I still enjoyed the story very much, however I liked the previous volume a tad better, and that is why I rated this one a bit lower. But it is still a great series and I’m looking forward to buy volume 3!