I was quite torn over writing this review. The girly side of me so loved this story. Yet, the academic side was looking for every little thing wrong with it.

Don’t you just hate it when you get a volume of shoujo manga that’s full of short stories? Arina Tanemura is bad about this, but I imagine fans do want to read her short stories sooner rather than waiting for a collection. Still. There’s only three chapters of story in here. There’s a short chapter about Ushio, a couple gag chapters about the pets, and a longer short story unrelated to the series. It could be worse, but I really just wanted to press on with the story.

As the conclusion approaches, all kinds of things happen that are probably supposed to be dramatic but just make me laugh. Haine confronts the twins’ grandfather about an archaic family tradition that establishes one as the heir and the other as mere stand-in, demonstrating her anger by ripping up a chair cushion. She then proceeds to talk down a gun-wielding friend by diagnosing his angst within three pages, gets shot anyway, narrates insipid dialogue like “Even if I’m mistaken… if what I make my mind up to do will lead to happiness then I can do it,” convinces gramps to acknowledge both twins, relays the good news to the boys, and then promptly collapses from her wound.