Manga: Boarding School Juliet 4

Boarding School Juliet Vol 4
Rating: 4/5
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Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

All Romio Inuzuka wants is to wish his secret girlfriend Juliet Persia a happy birthday, but when Inuzuka's authoritarian older brother Airu suspects their relationship, the star-crossed couple's plans--and their confidence in keeping up their mad masquerade--all go down the tubes. Luckily, Persia's big day isn't over yet, and Inuzuka has one last chance to fool his big bro and meet up with her, and it just happens to involve roping the Black Doggies into "crashing" Persia's birthday bash at White Cat House! 

With this volume not only do we see the end to the "birthday arc" but I feel like a certain stage of the story also comes to an end as well before we enter the next phase. Hasuki attempts to cheer up Romio as Persia is avoiding him for his own good, meanwhile the White Cats are setting up a Birthday party for her all ready for the Black Doggies to crash. 

We meet Cait Sidhe who's the White Cat's head prefect...and a bit odd as well as seeing the other prefects and the angsty separation is resolved! Persia has a couple of realisations and there's a bit of an admission on her part! Unfortunately we have a big showdown and it came earlier than expected to be honest, but it was suitably dramatic. Romio and Persia both have a goal to aim for, and I'm sure we haven't seen the last of Romio's brother but he seems satisfied. We then move on to focus on Romio a bit more, and we get to see a lot of Teria as he works with her so she can show him the ropes of being a prefect. 

It was nice to see some more of Teria on her own, without her sister, and to get to know her as she's quite shy. It was also nice to have a few chill and funny chapters after the drama of the first half of the volume. I also did enjoy seeing Persia tease Romio, I feel like we haven't seen that playful, relaxed side of her as much. 

Like I said, I feel like this volume closes phase one of the story with the initial confession and overcoming the trials of the start of their relationship. They're done getting to know each other, their feelings and relationship are fully established, and they've kind of relaxed in to it as well and their relationship has strengthened. They've overcome a lot and by the middle of this volume they've renewed their resolve and they have an action plan for what they're going to do and the second half of the volume shows the beginning of that. Their journey to becoming prefects is obviously the next step of the story.