Blue Box Vol. 12: Blue Box, Vol. 12
- ISBN
- 9781974748716
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 192
Blue Box separates Taiki and Chinatsu over winter break, with a badminton ski trip filling part of the distance. Time with teammates gives Taiki somewhere to go while he hopes to see her before school resumes. This is a continuation for readers invested in the romance's hesitation, because absence changes the conditions under which he has been waiting. Shared routines cannot do the work of arranging a meeting while the two are apart.
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The winter break gives indecision a deadline that everyday proximity lacks. Taiki can spend time with his badminton friends and still want to see Chinatsu before classes resume; distraction and intention are not the same thing. The publisher identifies a decision to act as his feelings intensify during the separation. That is the advertised turn worth locating here, without treating the decision as proof of a particular confession or answer. Wanting another encounter becomes different from relying on school to provide one. The romance acquires a practical problem: someone has to make the meeting happen.
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