Instead, like any other relationship, it’s the unrelenting march of time and the changes it brings. The biggest threat to their relationship isn’t the fact that they’re both girls, which is refreshing. That’s whether they’re on an intimate nighttime phone call, alone together in Yamada’s room raising the temperature a bit, or on a beach in Okinawa making up and out after Yamada gets a bit too “surprised” seeing Kase nude. Time with Yamada is special to Kase more special than time with anyone else. In any case, in moments when Yamada might feel lonely due to indulging Kase’s natural gregariousness, Kase’s own desire to be alone with Yamada means it’s never that long before she seeks Yamada out, both grateful for her patience and relieved to have in her a kind of haven. There are also times when she allows Kase to swept up by others, often interrupting potential time alone.īut while Yamada comes to realize she’ll have to be more assertive at times, the fact that Kase is so popular isn’t a problem for her it serves to validate why she loves her so much in the first place: Kase’s a surpassingly kind and gregarious young woman. There’s never any doubt that Kase is as smitten with Yamada as vice-versa, even if the latter tends to feel inferior due to Kase’s social and literal stature at school. That mutual enthusiasm paid dividends, as before long the like turned to love. Mild-mannered gardening fanatic Yamada Yui had never dated anyone before she and the athletic track star Kase Tomoka got together, but they’re together before the opening credits, which is a heck of a timesaver! Suffice it to say they liked each other to the extent they were equally enthusiastic about becoming a couple. It’s about their mutual love, plain and simple, and how they weather other challenges to remain together, a state neither of them at any point wish to leave. That they’re both girls, living in relatively conservative Japan, never comes up, because this isn’t about whether they can be together or not. The stakes never stray from the future of a couple of young lovers who start dating in their final year of high school. Asagaro to Kase-san, an OVA released in the Summer of 2018, is a concise but solid piece of serious yuri storytelling in the vein of Aoi Hana, Sasameki Koto, and Sakura Trick. It strikes that delicate balance of covering a fair amount of material while never feeling like it’s trying to do too much.

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