The cool, smart one who’s good at almost everything, and his average, dorky friend who struggles to do anything right­—Yamato and Kakeru.

His jealousy, his possessiveness, his yearning to be more than “just friends”… But Yamato is absolutely terrified of losing his best friend Kakeru if he ever admits the truth that he is and has been in love with him forever. ANNtv, ANNCast, Answerman, Astro Toy, Intern Annika, Brain Diving, Buried Treasure, Chicks On Anime, Crashing Japan, The Dub Track, The Edit List, Epic Threads, From The Gallery, Hai Fidelity, House of 1000 Manga, Ima Kore Ga Hoshiin Da, Old School, Pile of Shame, RIGHT TURN ONLY! Yet Yamato's feelings are made quite apparent through his perspective, and he's just filled with such longing, hesitancy, and pining on his part. began as a web comic on the author's Twitter account on April 13, 2018 before official serialization began in Gene pixiv on November 23, 2018.

And Mika’s accomplished graphic style is really well suited to portraying the characters; I’ve mentioned before that some of Kakeru’s extreme reaction shots (and they are extreme! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Extras at the end comprise a page of helpful translation notes and the mangaka’s Afterword, as well as several amusing bonus shorts, including ‘If Yamato Was Cheerful and Kakeru Was Not’. I thought about waiting until I could give you a complete review, but this manga started in 2018 and it’s still releasing so I have no clue when it will be complete. It was, however, very-very expensive; sold almost 4 times more than the recommended sale value printed on back of the book from 4 months ago. Sometimes this happens after a long time-gap, sometimes these stories portray the relationship changing while the two are still at school together, as is the case with I Cannot Reach You. I found this friends-to-lovers story to be very enjoyable and quickly became invested in seeing these blundering boys end up together.Having been established since February 2004, Anime UK News is constantly striving to deliver high quality UK anime news and reviews to your computer screens each and every day, being sure to maintain high standards of writing and reliability. Yamato's fear is so palpable and the tension between him and Kakeru is so fraught that it feels actively painful to read.

It's a story that effectively combines the slice-of-life, fantasy, and underdog genres in a digestible package. It takes me back to my first love story that wasn’t understood at the time as this series so skillfully is.Looking back over the last five volumes, a picture emerges of a long companionship that is slowly disintegrating because the two friends no longer share the same goals. With no memory of what happened in Kyoto, Yamato continues on as if nothing has changedeven though everything did. But even though that misunderstanding is cleared up and they agree to go out together to the cinema on The Day, Kakeru is so agitated at the prospect of going on ‘a date’ with Yamato that he spends a sleepless night with the inevitable consequences. I had a sneaking suspicion from the first chapter that this might be one of the cutest childhood best friends-lovers I'd ever read.