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There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless… Manga #8
There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... (Manga) Vol. 8
192 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2026
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May 5, 2026
Were we just talking about harem stories? Maybe, yet here’s another one of them in the truest sense of the word, just way yuri-er. Oh, plus a couple of other little tweaks along the way that help.
This genre mashup has proven fun, but this particular volume eschews some of that in favour of drama and it turns out to be just as effective. The humour still pokes through, sure, but the narrative weight here is very good.
We open on a couple chapters focusing on Ajisai in the aftermath of that last arc and her coming back down to reality. She meets up with some of her old friends and we learn a little more about her past.
Except Ajisai has Renako on her mind and seems set to just sit back and not rock the boat instead of actually making her feelings known. This leads to, of all things, an aquarium date between Ajisai and Oduka (freakin’) Mai.
Well, it’s framed that way, but it’s really a chance for the two of them to talk about Renako and their own feelings. There’s a certain melancholy to the way that Mai feels about all this, yet she doesn’t want Ajisai to live with regrets.
It’s a surprisingly sweet moment between the two of them (and a wee bit flirtatious) and it’s a lot more mature than the Mai we saw from earlier in the series. Mai’s grown, just a little, and she and Ajisai are an interesting pairing.
Renako, for her part, is staggered by Ajisai’s confession because the truth at the heart of this series remains as relevant as it ever was: Renako doesn’t love herself or see what’s so great about her.
The moment Renako realizes that is a hell of a blow, an unintentionally blurted out statement that hits like a sledgehammer. And Mai is there to try and help her through it, naturally, since Mai’s always there for her in her way.
Except that doesn’t solve anything, and a morose Renako ends up learning a shocking truth about her friend Kaho when she goes on the search for a girl she used to know back in cram school.
While this seems poised to add Kaho, somebody who Renako used to be able to talk to for hours, to the harem pile… well, not so fast. The pivot this takes is kind of brutal, as two people who used to be great friends find they’re no longer on the same page.
It resolves a little too quickly, but it’s such an interesting contrast between two people who reinvented themselves for high school. Kaho is very happy with who she’s become, yet she can’t get what she wants. Renako has what Kaho wants, yet isn’t happy with herself as a person.
It sort of begins to pivot back towards ribaldry leading to the next volume, but that’s not really a bad thing. After a volume as heavy and well done as this, it could use a little levity.
Everybody here has their hangups, but it’s poor Renako who can’t seem to realize that people love her and would accept her if she came clean about her life. Her reinvention has worked almost too well and now she has to deal with the imposter syndrome she unintentionally gave herself.
4 stars - this one has some fun gags and a super cute aquarium date, sure, but it wallops the drama button hard and really carries it off. It has a heft that makes it more than just a genre piece and beyond what the earlier volumes hinted at.
This genre mashup has proven fun, but this particular volume eschews some of that in favour of drama and it turns out to be just as effective. The humour still pokes through, sure, but the narrative weight here is very good.
We open on a couple chapters focusing on Ajisai in the aftermath of that last arc and her coming back down to reality. She meets up with some of her old friends and we learn a little more about her past.
Except Ajisai has Renako on her mind and seems set to just sit back and not rock the boat instead of actually making her feelings known. This leads to, of all things, an aquarium date between Ajisai and Oduka (freakin’) Mai.
Well, it’s framed that way, but it’s really a chance for the two of them to talk about Renako and their own feelings. There’s a certain melancholy to the way that Mai feels about all this, yet she doesn’t want Ajisai to live with regrets.
It’s a surprisingly sweet moment between the two of them (and a wee bit flirtatious) and it’s a lot more mature than the Mai we saw from earlier in the series. Mai’s grown, just a little, and she and Ajisai are an interesting pairing.
Renako, for her part, is staggered by Ajisai’s confession because the truth at the heart of this series remains as relevant as it ever was: Renako doesn’t love herself or see what’s so great about her.
The moment Renako realizes that is a hell of a blow, an unintentionally blurted out statement that hits like a sledgehammer. And Mai is there to try and help her through it, naturally, since Mai’s always there for her in her way.
Except that doesn’t solve anything, and a morose Renako ends up learning a shocking truth about her friend Kaho when she goes on the search for a girl she used to know back in cram school.
While this seems poised to add Kaho, somebody who Renako used to be able to talk to for hours, to the harem pile… well, not so fast. The pivot this takes is kind of brutal, as two people who used to be great friends find they’re no longer on the same page.
It resolves a little too quickly, but it’s such an interesting contrast between two people who reinvented themselves for high school. Kaho is very happy with who she’s become, yet she can’t get what she wants. Renako has what Kaho wants, yet isn’t happy with herself as a person.
It sort of begins to pivot back towards ribaldry leading to the next volume, but that’s not really a bad thing. After a volume as heavy and well done as this, it could use a little levity.
Everybody here has their hangups, but it’s poor Renako who can’t seem to realize that people love her and would accept her if she came clean about her life. Her reinvention has worked almost too well and now she has to deal with the imposter syndrome she unintentionally gave herself.
4 stars - this one has some fun gags and a super cute aquarium date, sure, but it wallops the drama button hard and really carries it off. It has a heft that makes it more than just a genre piece and beyond what the earlier volumes hinted at.
December 31, 2025
She a bit of me as an cosplayer 😆
June 9, 2026
3.5 stars.
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