| Week 9 | November 23 2024 |
|---|---|
| Pages | 167-186 |
| Chapter | 15 |
- I’m reading along
- I have finished this part
- I’m planning to catch up later
- I’m skipping this book
- I’m reading this book after the club has finished
These latest chapters have been cute and all - especially Ruri’s 重い！ face - but they’re barely Ruri Dragon any more. They’re just… Ruri.
Also, why’re they having an after-school study session so far from school?
Though, I’m intrigued that it’s actual McDonalds and not like, WcDonalds. Or, at least, it’s McDona…
I guess the story is settling into a cadence where a dragon trait pops up every once in a while, and it’s just a normal high school slice of life outside of that. I don’t really mind it. It’s fun seeing her navigate the situation with the classmate who says she hates everybody, but is clearly being too nice to them for that to actually be the case.
Although she was cold towards Ruri in the beginning. I guess she just had to warm up to her, which was aided by Ruri’s persistence in interacting with her.
By the way… this was the last week, we’re done!
So, how did everyone like volume 2?
Volume notes
I have to admit that while I liked it, I wasn’t particularly happy with how little of a role (i.e. absolutely none) her being a dragon played in the later half. I think it’s still a pretty good read, but her half-dragon nature is the hook and the special feature of this manga. Take that away, and it becomes a generic school life setting - and well, that’s just not what I would expect from something that started with “I grew horns, and found out I’m a half-dragon”.
Here’s what I wrote in my review on Natively:
We’re done for now.
Yah, I just said that. 
Volume one started with her almost incinerating a classmate, and finished with electrical weirdness. Volume two started with the risk of her electrocuting someone, which quite literally fizzled out, and finished with “Maeda doesn’t like me, and I can’t have that”.
With this week, we’re definitely a 100% done reading volume 2 in this book club 
To be honest though, even volume one was kind of like this. For the first half it was 70% dragon / 30% high school, and then it went 5% dragon / 95% high school for the second half… until the last few pages when we got that electrifying cliffhanger.
For me it felt a bit more tolerable in volume one since the first half still felt so novel and had a lot of dragon-related stuff, but in this volume 2 I feel like didn’t even get a lot of that. Barely any new info, a more involved repeat of the “you gotta let it out” routine (this time with electricity instead of fire), and… that’s it. And then we’re back to generic high school setting for the whole second half. I’m not sure a few pages of cliffhanger would’ve improved that much. I really want the author to find a better balance. But… ah, well. It is what it is.
VOLUME 3 ANNOUNCED WE ARE SO BACKKKKK
Annouced? Isn’t it already out?
THAT IS TRUEEEEEEE
But it was also announced, just… a while ago 
@Belthazar ruridragon 3 is in in our local (and 気になっている人 as well).
Have they been steadily raising prices or is this just the new manga price for new releases? Yotsuba 8 was $14, but Ruridragon was $21. I got rused into buying the collector’s edition of 気になってる人 at a truly ridiculous price but that was my fault
Sigh, physical collecting is so expensive
Yah, I noticed. Yotsuba too. But not, however, the next Yuru Camp. Trying to decide whether to wait for that so I can get them all at once, or make two trips…
Finished this vol. Imho they tie the dragon stuff and the slice of life stuff better together this volume (not that I had a problem in v2), so perhaps those who had those issues will enjoy it more?
I would say on my first run I understood about 75-80% of it and after looking through the eng the rest slotted into place, which is quite nice. I really love the art for this series though sometimes the various regular students all kind of blend together
(Also I was wrong on the costs - Ruri was only $14, it was Yotsuba that was $20 =___=)