Manga: Aoharu X Machinegun 15

Aoharu X Machinegun Vol 15 
Rating: 4/5
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Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

The TGC is a far cry from easy, but Toy?Gun Gun and Star White are squeaking through their close matches! During a break from the fierce fighting, Fujimoto and Ichi reminisce about their fateful encounters with Midori. These seemingly preordained meetings took place at difficult times in their lives, whether in regard to survival games or personal struggles...but just how life-changing were these events? 

So you guys might remember a little love triangle involving one of the other teams taking part in the TGC? Yeah, surprisingly that gets resolved at the start of this volume and it went so hilariously ridiculous because poor old Tachibana had to tell more people she's a girl...and it took a lot for them to believe her! I'm actually quite pleased that more people know, I did wonder if she'd ever tell the others that she's acquainted with.

My favourite moment though? One of the other teams members asking her out and Yukimura and Haruki's reactions, I cackled so much. Yukimura genuinely shooed the person, although I have to say...Taku is now one of my favourites, bless him. Can we have some more of him in the coming volumes? 

I've been curious about Star White and their origins and connections so I appreciated getting to delve in to Akabane's past and how she got in to survival games along with how she ended up teaming up with Midori and Fujimoto! But we also get the same for Fujimoto himself, and he's just really adorable okay!? I loved getting to see more depth to both their characters and getting their background and what they were like in the past and what led to them joining the team. I also feel like it showed a softer side to Midori you don't get to see often and he's a bit of a softie really isn't he?! 

As you can imagine from what I've said so far, this volume focuses on them more than Toy Gun Gun, but there's still plenty of action to go with the walk down memory lane, don't worry! Star White are up against team Kusanagi, and I thought it was a nice touch that we got to see how well they worked together as a team and looked out for each other after seeing how they initially all bonded. So while this volume delves deeper in to some of the side characters, it's no less action packed than the others and gives us a deeper understanding of one of TGG's "enemy" teams!