High School Debut, Volume 13 Book

This volume is all about whether Yoh goes to Tokyo to study or not, and how Haruna feels about that and what she does with what she eventually decides about it and how Yoh cares for Haruna, by talking to all her friends to take care of her and that he clearly DOES NOT want this relationship to end.

They decide on a trip together, the skiing one that got misdirected last time, and in typical Haruna fashion everyone else tags along as well. A nice touch was Yoh starting to feel insecure because a happy Haruna impresses other guys than just him ^^ (we already know that he was wise enough to see that Asaoka really meant it when he liked Haruna).

And the best thing is that the scenario he comes up with and explains to Haruna is actually VERY LIKE her, heh. And then Kawahara-sensei uses this bit to really show what Haruna brings to Yoh's naturally pessimistic, sceptic look on life - her belief in the future, her optimistic self, her fantasies that run totally against what Yoh was worried about.

Again, the next chapter is a filler, even though it has it's fun side, with the whole gang being snowed in at Christmas at Yoh's family's house. We meet his mother, but not his dad. And she's a LOT like Asami.

The next chapter is Haruna being chosen as the second year representative to give the good-bye speech to the departing third years at their graduation, and the way she works on it and does a truly moving piece actually - only that it's not what she actually wrote ^^. It turned into a love letter to Yoh, and there's a really lovely scene when she reads it to him. And he's truly moved, aww. And then they make a date that she'll accompany him to the airport the next day when he flies out to Tokyo. And she cries the whole way and then he hands her his response letter, because he can't get her to shup up, and after reading it she cries even more, until she's all cried out at the airport, heh.

And they say goodbye and then... he does something totally atypical in the middle of a crowded Japanese airport. Awww ^^

And I love the three page epilogue bit ^^