After getting struck with her own arrow, the cupid Asa falls in love with a human boy. The only way to cure her new affliction is by getting a genuine confession of love from him, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem like it will happen anytime soon.
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Info about this series (ongoing)
This series is currently ongoing, with three volumes published in Japanese.
What’s this series about?
Asa is a cupid with a rather unique personality. While she really doesn’t care about the humans she spends her days observing nor the gods she lives with, she does her job diligently for the sake of her mother.
When she only has one matchmaking quota left for the day, she goes on the hunt for a confession scene. She would strike the person receiving the confession with her arrow, they would fall in love with the confessor, and a successful match would be easily made. She quickly spots a confession scene and hits her target with an arrow. Strangely, though the arrow did successfully hit the boy, he turned down the confession. Even more strangely he is somehow able to see Asa. Just what is going on!?
When the human girl who confessed to him walks away and it’s just him and Asa left, he lets his true personality show. Just like Asa, he also has a bit of a dark side. He accuses her of being a stalker in cosplay, and attempts to take her arrow from her. When she struggles, he accidentally pierces her with her own arrow. She passes out from the shock, and wakes up in an unfamiliar room with him at her side.
When she gets a sense of her surroundings she realizes that she’s lost her wings and arrow, and is now somehow completely human!? As it’s the human boy’s fault she’s in this mess, she expects him to at least help her out until it’s resolved. Although he isn’t all that excited to help, he can’t exactly abandon a girl who claims to be a homeless goddess.
How can the situation be resolved? Well, the only way out is through—the cupids arrow she’s been hit with wants a confession from the human boy. Unfortunately neither the boy nor Asa understand the first thing about love.
My thoughts on this volume (Spoilers!)
I sampled this one quite a while ago and wasn’t fully sold on it. I found the boy, Nagi, to not be all that charming, and felt very bad for poor Asa—she was abandoned by the heavens after turning human! She lost everything in the span of an hour, and her entire life was in the hands of one apathetic teenage boy. Who wouldn’t find this setup stressful!?
Thankfully this volume address and takes away all the concerns that the first chapter brought. Though it’s true Asa isn’t able to return to the heavens until she secures a genuine confession from Nagi, her goddess mother does provide a bit of help. This is Asa’s problem though, so it’s only fair the brunt of the responsibilities lay on her shoulders.
There is also the case of the mysterious Kansai-ben speaking boy introduced at the end of the volume. Just like with Asa, all of the classmate’s memories of him seem to have been warped—like they have all been brainwashed to believe he has been there from the start. While it’s been confirmed Asa’s mother brainwashed everyone to make it easier her her to eventually extract a confession from Nagi at the beginning of the volume, we know absolutely nothing about this new boy.
This second round of brainwashing works on everyone, even Asa herself, except for Nagi. It’s almost as if the gods are unable to interfere with him!? Neither Nagi’s arrow nor her goddess mother’s mind warping had any affect on him, and now he’s the only one able to spot the suspicious person. I want to believe he’s an ally of Asa, but it’s been made clear she was a bit of a loner in the heavens.
In terms of romance, I enjoyed what this volume had to offer! Nagi’s character really grew on me the more I read. He really is just a teenage boy who doesn’t understand romance, so I can’t fault him for keeping his female classmates at a distance. I think he and Asa really are perfect for each other, as they both have rather bad personalities. While Asa is full of herself and looks down on most people (especially boys), Nagi doesn’t have an interest in seemingly anyone, but pretends he does for the sake of his easy going life.
The majority of the romance in this volume follows a similar format: Asa, having no practical experience in romance, clumsily attempts to seduce Nagi. Nagi easily brushes her off nonchalantly, and then once Asa lets her guard down, he returns the favour, leaving her flustered. Though he doesn’t show it, I do think Asa’s constant attempts at romance are having an effect on him! At the very least he seems to find her interesting—she’s the only one he doesn’t have to pretend to be kind in front of, after all.
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