Title: Futari Switch Vol. 2
Author: Akira Hiramoto
Publisher: Yen Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
Genre: Slice of Life, Comedy, Supernatural
Publication Date: February 24, 2026
The Story
A storm brews outside, and an innocent hangout between friends becomes interesting when Rino continues to make advances on Shinichi (with Ichigo trapped inside). Ichigo (with Shinichi trapped inside) can only watch as Rino tries to apply her Devil’s Touch to him, which is said to render any man powerless and confess his love for her. Of course, Rino will stop at nothing to make Shinichi hers; however, it’s up to Ichigo to try and put a stop to it. To make matters worse, the power goes out! This causes Shinichi to take matters into his (her) own hands and do something drastic!
Meanwhile, we catch a glimpse of the mysterious girl outside the apartment again, as if she’s biding her time and waiting for something.
Once the fiasco ends, Rino continues to make a move by inviting Shinichi out on a “date.” Fearing that she’ll make another move, Ichigo invites Yuuto along to make it a “double date.” After more antics, Rino can’t wait any longer and suspiciously asks Shinichi to follow her to her favorite toilet so that she can use the restroom. Of course, this turns out to be her leading him to a love hotel, but before they can step inside, three street punks approach them and want to get in on the “fun.” Of course, with Ichigo trapped in Shinichi’s body, he/she uses their fighting skills to hold them off… that is, until something happens… something that could end up turning the tides of this fight at the worst possible moment!
Characters
The biggest focus of this volume was on Rino. Pushy doesn’t even come close to describing the kind of woman she is. You can tell that she’s the type who, if she has her eye and mind set on something, she will go to great lengths to get it. She has a deep crush on Shinichi, so using this mysterious power known as the Devil’s Touch, she tries to seduce him over and over again. It’s not actually a magic power, but more or less, she just knows how to touch a man in all the right places to make him putty in her hands. She seems kind of psychotic, too, and that, to me, doesn’t exactly endear me to her as a character. I find her more annoying than anything else, and with how obvious she makes her advances, you’d think more people would step in and tell her to seek therapy or something, but everyone just kind of lets it slide. Just an overall creepy and weird character.
Next up, we got some development on the Ichigo x Yuuto relationship by way of the conversation with Yuuto’s little sister and Soukura. First, Ichigo (as Shinichi) goes to pick up Yuuto’s little sister from school with him. At Yuuto’s home, she asks her if Yuuto has a girlfriend, if he has any crushes on anyone. Obviously, she’s using the situation to her advantage to get information on Yuuto because that’s who she originally had a crush on. She gets some helpful info there, which gives her some hope!
Next, we get the same kind of treatment with Shinichi x Soukura. As he was running, Soukura came running up behind him on her daily jog. She asks him (as Ichigo) to run with her. There, she openly confesses that she has a crush on Shinichi, completely unaware that he’s in Ichigo’s body. She’s also worried about Rino because of all the advances she’s made towards him, but Shinichi received his confirmation that the girl he likes feels the same way about him!
Lastly, we have this mysterious girl who has not been named yet, but we do know that she has a vested interest in the cucumber that caused their bodies to switch… even going so far as to capture it and tie it to a tiny little chair (that was absolutely hilarious). There is one odd moment, though, when she got into her car, and a dog ran across the road, giving her a judgmental stare. She made the comment of “stupid old man,” so that tells me that there could be more swaps happening, and/or she was referring to an old man who was the dog’s owner? It’s kind of hard to tell, but just that one line made it clear that she knows way more than we think.
Final Thoughts
So, I want to get this out of the way first. Was this volume translated by AI? I swear that there were so many instances where it felt as if the translation was a literal word-for-word translation of Japanese to English. There were other times where words and phrases didn’t flow naturally, nor did they come across as the way people would speak normally. I had to do a double-take and re-read some of the dialogue just to make sure I understood what was being said because it just came across so unnaturally. Either that, or the writing in this series is just that eccentric.
For example, when everyone went out to eat, Shinichi asked Rino to pass the peas and pecorino. Totally fine and natural-sounding. Then, she asked, “Do you like the soft peas, pecorino cheese, and soft-boiled egg salad?” That, too, was fine because she just listed out what the dish was. Then, the very next panel, she asked, “Oh? The peas, pecorino cheese, and soft-boiled egg salad are that good?” Not only did that sound redundant, being just two panels apart, but it comes across unnaturally. Something like “Oh? You find it that good, huh?” or “What’s this? Are you savoring the taste that much?” or even “Oh ho? So, this dish is something that ignites your taste buds, huh?” would have worked so much better. The fact that it was repeated almost verbatim either conveys laziness in translation, someone who took the translation too literally, or it was translated by AI.
It’s not the only example, but the dialogue was just weird all around.
With that out of the way, what about the story? The story itself was fine. I thought that the initial punch from the first volume was lost a bit as the series chose to focus on Rino’s obsession with Shinichi. Again, I didn’t care for her as a character, so that probably factored into why I didn’t enjoy this volume as much as the initial offering, but it was good overall because some of the story plots from volume one did carry over and continue.
This isn’t a typical love story in the sense that it’s not painfully obvious that the two main characters will end up together. Instead, they have their own love interests, and they were able to use their body-swapping situation to glean more information on the ones they have a crush on. In both instances, it gave them hope, which drives the wedge between them, making it seem more unlikely that they’ll end up together, which is quite an interesting angle given 99.9% of romance series always ship the main couple. It could still happen here, but I think it would be refreshing if it didn’t. Give some side characters a chance to shine for once!
The ending was quite interesting, and our yet-to-be-named mysterious woman brings another interesting dynamic to the story. Although the ending makes me wonder about some things, as you would think that a plot point such as that would have been held off for a much later point in the series. Then, I looked it up, and it seems as if Volume 4 is the final volume of the first part. There haven’t been any announcements concerning a part 2, either, and this was as of over a year ago. Akira Hiramoto is working on other series, though, so it could just be on hiatus.
In any event, it’ll be interesting to see how the series continues on from here, given the ending we were presented.
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