Mission Yozakura Family

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Mission Yozakura Family vol. 5 by Hitsuji Gondaira

August 13, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 11: Relation-ship The manga Mission: Yozakura Family is pretty trope-y but still mostly entertaining. In volume 5 a there are a handful or inter-personal relationships that make some progress as well as an actual ship (ok, small fishing vessel and also a submarine makes a brief appearance; that counts). The main mystery of what really happened to Taiyo’s family makes a bit of progress when it turns out there’s a connection that he didn’t know about to his ‘wife’s’ (they’re about 16, so that […]

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Mission Yozakura Family vol. 1 by Hitsuji Gondaira

January 8, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

So I read a preview chapter of this new mange last year, and later when I wanted some kind of mindless entertainment I went and got the published first volume of Mission: Yozakura Family. The premise is almost as goofy as the story: painfully shy and traumatized Taiyo can hardly function in school except with his childhood friend the pretty and popular Mutsumi Yozakura. It turns out she’s part of a family of spies and they end up “married” to save both of them from […]

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