Manga: Again 10

Again!! Vol 10 
Rating: 3/5
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Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

The curtains close on the drama club and the ouendan's underground performance of I Want to Die: The Musical to a roaring success, but the real drama soon follows Kinichiro, Aki, and the rest of the cast off stage. The group may have successfully set Hanataka on the path to stardom, but when Aki comes to an alarming realization about her relationship with Hiro, and the fate of the ouendan falls into jeopardy once again, one thing becomes certain: Not everything will be like it was before the do-over. 

The performance of the drama club comes to an end and Imamura has some heartfelt and heartwarming words for Hanataka that really hit home, I feel. He might not be all that good with people, but he can be pretty good with words, it would seem. As that arc draws to a close, there's a bit more of a focus on our other time traveller, Aki. 

We haven't really seen all that much of Aki, she's very much a side character but she's also dealing with the whole time travel thing as well, and things are just as different for her as they are for Imamura. However, she's only just starting to suspect what's going on with Hiro, though she's too afraid to outright ask him. I've come to quite like Aki, it has to be said, and I've been rooting for her to kick him to the curb. 

I've always thought that Hiro was a bit of a d*** but I didn't realise quite how much of one he was until this volume. Wow. I felt for Aki so much, but I was also sitting there like 'sweetie, you can do so much better than that trash'. The thing is, poor Aki doesn't have the friends that she had the first time round, things have been changed so much for her but luckily she does have the Ouendan Club and it made my heart all warm and fuzzy to see them have her back and try to help her. Although it did end up becoming quite funny as well! 

Things have been pretty chill with this series, nothing too dire is happening...until now. It would seem that while some of their schoolmates fates have been changed by them, presumably for the better, other things are starting to change without their interference being behind it...like the weather for example. 

There's a lot of things happening in this volume, including a glimpse in to why Usami left school back before the do over after the Ouendan was shut down, but things are starting to take an interesting turn once again as we get a glimpse of the future of the Ouendan...and it seems history might be attempting to fight back?