My Wife Is Wagatsuma-san, Vol. 3 has me hooked. I've already purchased Vol. 4 through Vol. 6, and I've read the first three tankoban volumes today. Everything I could have said about this series, I've said in my reviews of the first two volumes. Yeah, it's derivative, and there are a bunch of references to Japanese pop culture that the most ardent Japanophile would miss, from TV shows to puroresu to anime to true crime in Japan. The "DX" characters' focus on popular culture is typical of their lack of social graces. They want to be friends with girls and popular boys in class, but all they really care about it what they see on the television and the computer.
As I explained in the first issue, this series is still in the "black comedy" phase of the romantic comedy. Hitoshi is a really nice guy, and he's become friends with Wagatsuma and Silvia (who is absent from this volume) in the 2011 timeline, but he's mostly stuck with his loser friends. I laugh occasionally while reading this manga, and it is sort of funny, if not memorable. Still, I forked out $28.97 for the next three books (Vol. 5 and Vol. 6 ended up being $10.99 in digital format), mostly because I needed some light summer reading.
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