Manga: Hitorijime My Hero 4

Hitorijime My Hero Vol 4
Rating: 4/5
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Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

It's only been a couple of months since Kousuke's confession, but Masahiro already feels like his wife! With so much joyous romance in his life, Masahiro begins to have doubts that any of it is for certain. Unable to feel grounded, Masahiro struggles to keep steady. From fights with his mom, to running away from home, there's still a lot this street punk needs help figuring out...

Keeping the plot moving forward, and fleshing out the characters a bit more we delve in to Masahiro and his home life a little in this volume. There's a sad flashback at the beginning of the volume that gives us some initial insight and a sense of foreboding, and makes an interesting contrast with the following scene featuring Kousuke's family. The contrast is quite stark and it was a nice way to show you why he spends so much time hanging around their house aside from Kensuke and Kousuke. 

We do get some heartwarming and cute moments as usual, but things do get pretty dark when we start to see more of his mother and what his relationship is like with her. It's not really a great situation and I really empathised with him in this volume. 

I also liked that we got to see more of reluctant friends Hasekura, I live for it to be honest. He's secretly soft and you can't convince me otherwise, although why Masahiro went to him is pretty obvious. He probably thought Hasekura's the only one who would understand and wouldn't bother him about it all. Meaning Kensuke had to get involved because Masahiro wouldn't talk. 

This volume also gives us a little more page time for Natsuo the bartender, and I'm so curious about him. He seems a little mysterious, and I've got my suspicions about him, and I'm sure I'm right because it's heavily hinted so it should be interesting to see how that will play out. 

This volume gives us a huge amount of insight in to Masahiro, and it comes at a nice time in the story. It's after we've seen the romance start, and hit its first bump and it's come during a relatively calm time during their new relationship. Masahiro and his inability to go to Kousuke with the issue is going to be the next bump in their relationship that they need to overcome, I think as they still are getting to grips with each other and how they react to certain situations. I did really feel for Masahiro, and I'm rooting for him because I can see why he reacted the way he did, bless him. There's also some interesting bonus content in this volume!