Title: Fly Me to the Moon Vol. 28
Author: Kenjiro Hata
Publisher: Viz Media
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Genre: Slice of Life, Romance, Comedy, Science Fiction
Publication Date: May 13, 2025
The Story
The time has come! Asimo vs Nasa in a battle of wits is finally here… is what I would have said if the manga hadn’t taken, yet, another detour!
Even though this story has been put on the back burner (and not even mentioned once in this entire volume), the detour that we took was something I have been waiting for! We FINALLY got the answer to Tsukasa’s immortality, and Nasa has found a way to undo it! I’ll let you all read it for yourselves as this is a massive revelation; however, the outcome of this revelation was hinted at going in a completely different direction, but that’s all I will say.
As for what we got, aside from the huge plot bomb that got dropped on us, we spent some time with Tsukasa and Kosaka. Kosaka is determined to find out whether or not Tsukasa is immortal, so while Tsukasa is visiting her, they decide to cook dinner together. During which, Kosaka asks her a bunch of embarrassing questions about her love life with Nasa, hoping that she would slip up and cut herself with the knife. That way, she can see if she heals instantly, thus proving her immortality; however, it doesn’t work. Tsukasa reveals to Nasa that she can delay her healing for up to 27 days… this includes her death as well. It’s this piece of information that tips Nasa off to theorize the source of her immortality and how to stop it.
Outside of that, we get some cute moments between Nasa and Tsukasa after Nasa gets approached by one of his students asking to try some pick-up lines on him to help a friend score a date. Tsukasa catches them at the wrong time, so we spend a chapter or two with Tsukasa thinking about Nasa cheating on her and Nasa having to be overly sweet and complementary to win her heart back and dispel any thoughts of cheating (even though Tsukasa knows Nasa isn’t the cheating type!)
Once the plot bomb is dropped, what will Nasa do to help Tsukasa (and will he ever fight Asimo in this academic duel!?)
Characters
Obviously, the biggest development is with Tsukasa, but if I detail it, it kind of ruins one of the biggest moments in the manga to date, so… I’m just going to say that I didn’t expect the reason to be what it was, and Nasa is completely right about the solution. This means an alternative method is going to be needed here, and judging from the wording used by Nasa in some of his dialogue, I already have an idea of what the solution is going to be, and what the ending to this series is going to be as well. If not, then this was quite the setup for a massive swerve later on down the road. We’ll see, though.
We got a little bit more character building with Kosaka. Her mother used to talk about a monk named Yao who was said to always look 16 and thought to be an immortal. Yao also had superhuman healing powers and could never die from disease or have their body destroyed. This urban legend is what Kosaka recalled when thinking about Tsukasa, which led her to try to get Tsukasa to cut herself, to test her healing abilities.
Outside of that, not much in the way of character development. The Nasa x Tsukasa stuff isn’t something we haven’t seen before, so I don’t truly count that as development. It was just more cute moments for the sake of having cute moments.
Final Thoughts
Well, here we are again with the story taking another hard detour for no reason. I’ve stated my annoyance in the past because I wish the series could just focus on one story at a time rather than skipping around. But, even though I complained about that, I mentioned that almost everything that his series does is incredibly interesting, and this detour is no exception because it brought us back to the main story of the series and ripped the lid straight off the plot box and revealed one of the biggest moments in the series to date. We finally have answers, and we have solutions, but the solutions may not work, so we need new solutions! As a particular comedy skit has always said, modern problems require modern solutions.
While I have my theories as to how the series will end and/or what Nasa’s solution is going to be, I’m not going to hold my breath on whether or not we will find out in the next volume. I would suspect we would get back to Asimo and Nasa’s duel, but knowing the way this series handles things, I’m guessing that little run-in with his student is going to lead to Nasa being invited to some slumber party where they take turns using pick-up lines on him. That will turn into a camping trip, which turns into buying new furniture, or possibly them getting a new place to live, and everything we just read will become a distant memory for the next six or so volumes.
Or it could shock me, and we get some continuity in Volume 29. We’ll see!
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