Title: Snow Angel Vol. 2
Author: Haruka Chizu
Publisher: Viz Media
Language: English
Format: Digital
Pages: 160
Genre: Slice-of-Life, Drama, Romance
Publication Date: August 12, 2025
The Story
After Muku went back home, Yuto, Saku, and Inori came to sneak her out of the house. There is a meteor shower happening that night, and they want to go check it out. They sneak her out, but there is some obvious tension between Muku and her sister. Before the meteor shower begins, they end up having a heart-to-heart talk. After they make up, Yuto and Saku bring Muku back home; however, her grandmother is there, and she’s not happy that they snuck out of the house.
From there, turmoil ensues with her threatening to call the police, charge Yuto with kidnapping, the whole nine yards. She backs Yuto into the proverbial corner and gets him to admit that he didn’t go to school beyond elementary school, and is a freelancer, not having a real job. This sends Muku’s grandmother over the edge; however, to quell the situation, Yuto decides to tell the truth about who he is, which stuns Muku (and everyone else).
After that, things break down even further until Muku’s mother steps in. Things get a bit rough, but ultimately, the solution that has been needed is offered. Will it be accepted?
Characters
In the face of her family’s drama, Muku goes through several different emotions; however, despite almost caving, she realizes that nothing is going to change if she just continues to accept things the way that they are. She remains strong and adamant about living her own life, even if it costs her family their happiness or their convenience. She doesn’t hold anything back, which shows just how strong-willed she has become in such a short amount of time.
Yuto, on the other hand, also becomes determined to make sure that Muku has the happy life that she deserves… even if that means revealing his big secret that he didn’t want Muku to know. Making that personal sacrifice speaks volumes about how much he truly cares about her. Even at the very end of the volume, he asks Muku a question… one that could give her what she wants, and could hugely change her life. It shows that he’s very serious about everything, and not just serious, but caring and sincere about it, too! It was some nice development for him that should point us in the direction of the ending to this series.
We ended up getting some backstory on Muku’s grandmother, which explained why she was so adamant about keeping her husband in the house and making her family take care of him. In the process of doing so, she became blind as to what was happening around her. As long as she could keep her husband there, she didn’t care about anything else, not even her family’s happiness. This almost cost the family dearly; however, despite it being a tough sell and conversation, she slowly began to realize what needed to happen. How she moves on from here remains to be seen, but it proved that despite her hard-headedness, people can get through to her; although, I will say, the conversations leading up to that breakthrough were not easy.
Final Thoughts
At first, I thought that the pacing of this series was a bit rushed; however, I remembered that this is only a 4-volume series, and we are halfway through. I will say that the second volume was a lot better than the first. The level of drama here was pretty high, and it made things very interesting. The question posed to Muku at the end should lead us to the next “arc,” but I see it more as a setup to the ending and/or epilogue. Now that the unpleasantries are taken care of, there is only one goal left to accomplish: Muku’s independence.
We should open the penultimate volume with Muku’s answer. We’ll see how things progress and where they go from here, but one thing is for certain: that the series is looking to place a hard focus on Muku x Yuto!
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This item was provided for review by VIZ Media.
