"Nighttime for Just Us Two" Volume 1 by Maki Miyoshi is a story about a girl, Nikaido, who feel she is an outsider at school. No one remembers her name and she's invisible to everyone.
On a night walk, she meets the popular guy from her class, Koga-kun, but he presents himself as someone else... an alien that is exploring human life on earth. o.0
The first time I read the synopsis for this story I burst out laughing because... a shojo manga with an alien?! Never heard about it before and sounds crazy enough that it's hard to not check it out!
I think this first volume was awesome! It was punchy and fast-paced and managed to show both Nikaido's loneliness, Koga's desperation, and Chiro-chan's happy attitude about living the human life. It was so funny!
I love how Chiro-chan (the alien) and Koga (the human) come across as two different people. Chiro-chan is bright, happy and an airhead and Koga is... well, right now he is scared and is convinced he is crazy because he wakes up somewhere else than his bed, and people talk to him about stuff he has done but doesn't remember. As a reader, you wonder along with him if he has a split personality? If not, how and why is he then a host for an alien?
This first volume brought up lots of questions I can't wait to get the answers to.
This was an interesting and quirky read about teens and how they can feel like they are a different species until they find that person in the entire universe that understands them.


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