I'm so in love with this Rascal series, they're so adorable. Even though I'm not much of a romance girl, these are so lovely, and the fantastic elements in the story are fascinating. In this volume we have another version of Adolescence Syndrome, where a girl, so fearful of her reality, starts looping days until she can get the result she wants, thus trapping Sakuta in the loops.
As with the previous one, it's fascinating seeing how the emotions and mental stability of the characters is what is triggering the Adolescence Syndrome and its consequences. The girl we see in this book, Tomoe, is a teenager terrified with being left out. So she always answers every single text from her friends, agrees with them, watches the video they watch just so that she can talk about them with them, she does everything in her power so no one hates her, but all of this stress is taking a tall on her, and honestly, this is no way of living, as there will come a point when she won't be able to avoid frictions. All this tension triggers her Adolescence Syndrome, and until she resolves her inner issues, things won't stop.
It was another fantastic story, that also deals with unrequited love. How much pain can you hold, how much hope you can have, but also about how you need to deal because you can't force anyone to love you. It was heartbreaking sometimes, but I loved how the theme was explored, and while the anime is very close to the books, in here we get to see character's feelings way more deeply. I'm so afraid of getting to the Kaede book, because I know how that story ends and I can already predict lots of tears.