Title: My Favorite V-Tuber is Scary IRL Vol. 2
Author: Riyo Yorima
Publisher: Square Enix
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Publication Date: June 9, 2026
The Story
Our boy, who still doesn’t have a name, and our girl, who we only still know as the VTuber Fuwari, continue to work together to help overcome her severe social anxiety. While he’s making a routine delivery, though, he bumps into this little ball of fury known as Akari, who is pretty protective of her delivery territory, which includes Fuwari’s apartment. They instantly become rivals on the delivery scene, but just as quickly as they become rivals, they become connected through their love of Fuwari otakus!
The next step in his plan to help Fuwari overcome her anxiety is to take her to his favorite manga café, but getting there is quite the chore. Along the way, he blurts out that he usually goes there to sulk, but it’s the first time he’s ever taken someone else there with him. She gets it stuck in her head that she’s his first (not in that way, but they make it seem like such!) When they arrive, they fumble through getting a membership, picking out some manga, and getting some drinks. While he’s out getting the latter, he bumps into Akari, and the two of them superfan out of Fuwari. She overhears it, thinks they’re friends now, and disappears!
Can he repair the misunderstanding between them?
Characters
We continue the trend of keeping the main characters’ names a secret, and I think it’s still working out just as well as it did the first time around! Here, our Eatza boy opens up a bit more to Fuwari by admitting that he usually sulks when he goes to the manga café alone. Plus, while he’s there, he ends up tripping while carrying a stack of manga, and it makes Fuwari happy to know that he can be clumsy just like her. You can really feel the connection deepening between them!
As for Furwari, she made some nice strides towards being bolder in this volume, but she’s still way too frail and fragile. Something as simple as a clerk asking if she wanted to open a new membership at the manga café was enough for her to relapse and go right back into anxiety mode. Then, just seeing him and Akari talking to one another gave her the wrong impression and sent her into a depression spiral. It was like one step forward, three steps back, but that’s the fun part of her character’s challenge… breaking through that shell and getting her to open up and be more confident!
Akari isn’t the type of character we haven’t seen before. She even has a pretty generic design, to boot. She’s a light tsundere, meaning that she’s only selectively mean, but as soon as you mention Fuwari, she becomes putty in your hands. Still, she’s a bit guarded, so you can tell that she won’t open up completely, but she does have that “instant guard down” trigger whenever her oshi is mentioned, which is kind of cute. I can see her being fun for a little while, only to have her breaking moment and becoming just another character. Ones like this typically end up that way.
Final Thoughts
I’m still loving the dynamic between our mystery boy and Fuwari. The only little nitpick that I have is that they are making it a bit too obvious that they have a crush on one another. I get that both of them are hiding behind embarrassment and anxiety, but the phrasing, the facial expressions, the fact that they are easily embarrassed around one another, it’s too obvious to the point where you’d have to be denser than morning fog to not see that they like one another (I mean that from the characters’ perspective, not the readers’). It’s only the second volume, and I feel like either one said “I love you” right now, they would skip dating and go straight to marriage.
But, despite that little nitpick, it’s adorable… so I can’t really complain too much. Their dynamic is great, and because of that, I’m not sure what introducing Akari could truly do for this series. I guess you need to have something break up the monotony; otherwise, the running gag will eventually get stale, so introducing her now and setting her up as an early failsafe is the right call… my only issue is that her mannerisms are just cute to an extent. Everything from her personality to her actual design isn’t anything new or terribly exciting. While there is enough foreshadowing with her to see where the story could go, I can only see her being comedic relief now and then.
I just hope they don’t try and make her the hopeless third wheel, because it’s kind of established that Mysterious Box X and Fuwari are going to end up together, and we don’t want (or need) anyone or anything standing in their way… even if that something is like 4’10” or somewhere around that effect (she’s tiny!)
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