Kiss Him, Not Me Volume 7
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Publisher Description
It’s me, Kae! After resolving my differences with Shima-chan, the gang is all together again for a special trip to visit the shrine of a beloved anime character…I mean historical figure! Things get steamy at a hot springs inn—communal baths, pillow fights – seeing these gorgeous guys together is just too much! But it’s not all fun and fantasies when Igarashi buckles down to win me over. Are these feelings I get around him something more than friendship? Mutsumi-senpai has also stayed close after his confession, and a strange turn of events on our vacation gives him the chance for more alone time with me. Back at home, the other boys’ progress has Nanashima feeling left out in the cold. Without some otaku common ground, he doesn’t know how to get closer, but his little sister’s anime obsession might be the answer he needs! He’s really working hard now, and after all that effort, he makes a shocking move to declare his feelings…
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Attractive character designs, diverse personalities, and eye-grabbing layouts highlight this manga focused on the life of a fujoshi a fangirl who obsesses over pairing male characters with each other. Kae Serinuma is an unpopular, overweight, pop culture obsessed high school student. After her favorite character is killed off, she goes into a depression spiral that makes her lose weight; she comes out on the other side as a beautiful and thin object of affection of the four cutest guys in her school (whom she "ships" together in her daydreams). This book could easily go wrong, but it's a well-played farce filled with both laughter and empathy, no doubt helped by the fact that the author is a well-established writer of yaoi ("boys love") manga. The boys, especially, are far from tropes. Rather than saying that thin is beautiful, the narrative lightheartedly tackles both the boys' confusion of what to do with a girl who has weird interests, and Kae's struggle to learn how to function like a normal person and yet stay true to her uniqueness when suddenly given the chance.
