Manga: Tokyo Tarareba Girls 5

Tokyo Tarareba Girls Vol 5 
Rating: 4/5 
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Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

After yet another devastating encounter with Key, Rinko constantly questions what it means to be a "good woman." The haunting thought drives her to consult a fortune teller, who seems to nail her problems right on the head. When Rinko brings Koyuki and Kaori along to experience the psychic for themselves, things devolve into an argument that drives the close friends to go their separate ways. But a friendship as strong as theirs is not so easily broken, and the trio will need all the support they can get as the third wedding rush begins...

Thanks to good old Key, Rinko is struggling with the question of what makes a good woman, and that question leads she and her friends to a fortune teller. What could possibly go wrong, right? 

I mean the fortune teller nailed each of them and their situations but the events after that? We see our tight knit group of friends have a pretty big falling out and I was sitting there reading the scene, and the little jabs like "ooooooohhh" and wincing. 

Usually I'm all about Key getting on my last nerve in these reviews, but this time it's Kaori's man that's more of an a-hole. I would have slapped him one, personally, I'm not going to lie. But speaking of Key, we do learn some more about him in this volume that made him start to make a little more sense. I personally find him quite hard to read, like was he actually trying to stand up for Rinko at one point? Was he feeling bad? 

I loved the fact that this volume doesn't drag out the argument, and we had some super relatable and excellently timed chapters to do with their friends wedding. Literally me right now, I can't lie. 

With this volume we examine the girls relationships a little more closely and while one of them tries to bring it to an end, for the other there's a huge bomb to be dropped that leaves us on a cliffhanger and has you thinking "oh s***". The main focus of this volume is mostly Rinko's two friends but I feel like we're seeing a shift in their relationships and their thinking about the situations they're in!