Title: A Yuri Love Story That Begins with Getting Dumped in a Dream Vol. 2
Author: Hijiki
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Genre: Yuri, Romance
Publication Date: May 19, 2026
The Story
In this volume, Tsukushi wrestles with her feelings, and whether to confess to Hinoka. She has become hyper aware of these feelings, but doesn’t know how to steel herself or go about the confession, so she approached Sara and Yuu to ask for advice. Yuu stayed behind to keep Hinoka company while Sara profusely apologized to Tsukushi for assuming that they were already dating. Sara goes into her backstory about how she and Yuu got together. Afterward, they come up with the idea of going to the beach, but they’ll go as a “double date” to help Tsukushi set the perfect mood.
After some planning and a few chapters with some side banter, our characters are off, but it seems as if Tsukushi wore herself out! Is everything over before it can begin?
Characters
It’s a classic setup here with Hinoka and Tsukushi. We ended the previous volume with Tsukushi telling Hinoka that she will properly say her feelings to her one day. This left her wondering if Hinoka would return her feelings, but that’s about as far as her development goes because the volume switches gears almost immediately to focus on Tsukushi, and this is the part that’s weird.
So, Hinoka confessed, but throughout the whole volume, Tsukushi acts as if it never happened, and then worries and stresses over whether or not she should confess her feelings for Hinoka. I know that it opened with a dream, but the way that it was laid out, it seems as if the dream ended and Hinoka confessed to Tsukushi. It even stated she would spend each day making her feelings known. So, was that part of the dream, too? It didn’t have the dark panel borders, which would suggest it, unless Tuskushi just understood it as friends loving friends and not as a romantic confession. It just seems really odd that Hinoka would say that and Tuskushi would have to spend the entirety of the volume wondering if Hinoka would feel the same way.
What’s funny is that this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this plot play out. I’ve seen a few other series where a confession happened and the person confessed to is dumber than a box of dead, wet rats, and cannot understand what happened, then spends a bunch of time wondering if the person who confessed to them would love them back. It’s pretty annoying because it just makes your main characters look really stupid. If there is a need to sort feelings out first, then that’s fine, but don’t make the character act like they don’t already know the answer.
Be that as it may, we did get Sara and Yuu’s backstory, but it wasn’t much of anything. If you were expecting some big, grandiose scenario that brought them together, it didn’t play out like that one bit, but that was part of the comedy aspect of this series. To know that things just happened like that was funny.
Also… shoutouts to Hinoka’s based mother. She knows how to give out the true love advice to her daughter (which comes into play towards the end of the volume in a hilarious scene.)
Final Thoughts
The only thing that bothered me about this volume is what I touched upon in the Characters section with Tsukushi. It would make a lot of sense had Hinoka’s confession been made clearer. Because of the absence of dark panel borders, I wasn’t sure if that was part of a dream or not. They did replay the ending to the first volume when Tsukushi swore that she would make her feelings known one day, and that’s what this volume followed up on. Either way, if Hinoka did truly confess, then Tsukushi was made to look pretty dumb by wondering if Hinoka, who already said I Love You, would accept her feelings back. For argument’s sake, I’ll just say it was part of the dream because then, this volume would make a lot more sense.
Going the whole beach confession route is another trope we’ve seen used a lot, but at least we’ll be getting some fan service in the next volume. Whether the confession happens remains to be seen, though. With the way the volume ended, it seemed like an excuse to have things go off the rails, giving them an excuse for their plan to backfire. We’ll see how it plays out, though.
I will say, I did enjoy the banter between Tsukushi and her sister Serina. Serina does love to tease her quite often, but she also seemed to have had a bit of a tough upbringing with being frail. Their mother is obviously overprotective of her, which is why she gets away with being a bit on the sarcastic side. For someone who is playing a minor role, I’m enjoying her character a lot.
We’ll see what happens at the beach in the next volume. Hopefully, no more confusing dream scenarios, though!
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