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After a very enjoyable first volume, Venus Capriccio settles into familiar shoujo territory.

Akira and Takami are like a subdued version of Atsushi and Risa from Love*Com. It’s pretty obvious that they care about the other as more than friends, but they’re afraid of advancing the relationship into a romance because of a seemingly ‘important’ reason. In Venus Capriccio’s case, their obstacle is the age difference — as if it’s so abhorrent for an older girl to date a boy a few years her junior.

One of the developments in v2 that I enjoyed is Takami going back and taking piano lessons seriously. We find out that even though she keeps complaining about not being as good as Akira, she’s actually a determined piano student and is quite a good player. Even if you’re above average, when compared to a genius, you’re still not good enough. It was interesting to see Akira sweat a little bit there, nonetheless.

Didn’t buy the teacher flirting with Takami though. He was totally more interested in Akira, and had this been a boylove manga, there would’ve been some kinky teacher-and-student smexing on top of the piano…

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