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A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Vol. 5

(熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる / A tropical fish yearns for snow. #5)

Makoto Hagino

4.27 · Rating details · 83 ratings · 7 reviews

Sometimes you find what you yearn for…

When her dad gets a job overseas, Konatsu Amano has to leave the Tokyo life she’s always known and relocate to a small seaside town to stay with her aunt. The move also means starting a new school surrounded by complete strangers, and it’s a lot to handle for a girl who has trouble with change. But on her first day in her new town, Kon ...more

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Published November 10th 2020 by VIZ Media LLC (first published June 27th 2019)

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Nov 23, 2020 Geoff rated it liked it

Shelves: arc, comics, in-translation, net-galley, read-2020

So we're in volume 5 now and things are moving suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper slow; then again, some of the main characters' growth is all about learning how to communicate, so to some extent the slowness is thematically correct. Still love the environment and supporting characters (it was really nice to see an increased focus on Kaede in this volume) and think the central love story is charming, albeit slow. I enjoyed this volume's central focus on getting Koyuki to actually talk to the people in he ...more

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Nov 16, 2020 Mark Evans rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Koyuki had a bit of an emotional outburst (for her) at the end of the last book and that lead to her withdrawing a bit. However, a chance meeting gives her a new outlet for her frustrations in life, although it may not come without some unforeseen consequences...

Sometimes a book isn’t giving you what you want and that’s not okay. You’re waiting and waiting for romance to finally erupt between two leads and you have an author who is coy about every last detail on where the story is going.

And then Koyuki had a bit of an emotional outburst (for her) at the end of the last book and that lead to her withdrawing a bit. However, a chance meeting gives her a new outlet for her frustrations in life, although it may not come without some unforeseen consequences...

Sometimes a book isn’t giving you what you want and that’s not okay. You’re waiting and waiting for romance to finally erupt between two leads and you have an author who is coy about every last detail on where the story is going.

And then, sometimes, you’re given something else instead, which turns out to be as good as or better than what you wanted. That’s where we are with this volume. I have found Kaede to be a bit hyper compared to the rest of the cast and more of a nuisance than anything else, often functioning as an impediment to the story.

Well, so much for that sentiment. This volume brings her to such life while toning her down a little by adding layers to her, yet at the same time keeping the core of what makes her Kaede.

I am a sucker for stories that are about communication and the way we relate to one another, and this volume embraces that so wonderfully well. By having no real history together, Kaede and Koyuki are able to communicate in a way that they cannot with others, especially the very guarded Koyuki.

The amount of bottled up feelings erupting from Koyuki about her family, her future, and, yes, Konatsu show that she’s been pushing back on expressing herself to an unhealthy degree.

Consequently, seeing these two hang out is one of the most pleasantly enjoyable moments since the series started. It was amazing to see Koyuki just enjoy herself unabashedly for a change. There’s a full on Moment where they’re collapsed on the floor sharing a look and it’s just the perfect summation.

Of course, the book makes it clear that there is a double-edged sword to expressing one’s self. Without realizing it, Konatsu expresses how she’s really come into her own, but in a way that couldn’t be phrased worse for poor Koyuki.

And then there’s the ending. I mean, the implication through all this is that Konatsu is so important to Koyuki that the latter is afraid to open up fully to somebody who means so much to her. Of course, that’s all fine if you know this, which Konatsu doesn’t, and it sure looks like some bruised feelings are on the horizon.

4 stars. A beautful piece of work. No movement on the main pairing, if it even exists, but this time out I didn’t even notice it. This book may not always be doing right by its characters, but, oddly, it is doing amazingly well with its characterization. ...more

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Nov 08, 2020 Rebecca rated it really liked it

Shelves: lbgtq, manga, ya

Konatsu's barely in this volume, but that works better than you might expect as the focus remains firmly on Koyuki and she gets to know Kaede a little better. ...more

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Jan 19, 2021 Bee (BacchusVines) rated it liked it

Shelves: 2020-releases, 2021-challenge, manga, owned, lgbtqia, sea-reads

3.75

We don't get much of our two leading ladies, but I do love seeing the friendship blossoming on the other end. This volume really looks at the different ways that Koyuki experiences loneliness, and same with Kaede. I really like how slow and steady these volumes are, in exploring the girls' feelings and how they progress into the world. ...more

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Feb 10, 2021 Ashley N. rated it liked it

Shelves: read-manga

I'll give this series another volume before I decide if I want to keep reading. The beginning of the series started strong and I adored the characters, but this volume was so slow. The slow-burn of not talking about feelings (like loneliness) is not really connecting with me. Koyuki is gaining some character development, but something is not quite connecting—I know she's put herself into a position of wanting to appear a certain way, but all the characters inability to communicate to supposed fr ...more

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Aug 01, 2020 Rahel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2020

Reviewing the series so far, as this is the current volume that has been released here in Germany! So far: very cute and slow paced. Sometimes, you just want to whack these two over the head because they make mountains out of molehills, but that's shoujo(-ai) in general for you. I love the setting of coastal town, with the aquarium club at the center of the story. The animals are drawn very well (and aren't creepily humanized like it's sometimes the case), and the art style in itself is definite ...more

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