The 3rd book if the series and although it was cute, i like the previous 2 books better. I would stills recommend this book since the series is good so far but I just want to see how the relationship develops btw the main characters.

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I adore this Manga! Leaves this leaves a wonderful warm, squishy feeling. This series just keeps getting better! Cannot wait until August for volume 4! Recommend this series 100%

I adored volume 1 and two, but I feel as if this volume has run out of steam. It was cute and funny, but the other volumes shone a bit brighter.

I still want to read the next in the series as this holds a lot of promise.

What a wonderful series !

My Love Mix-Up is funny, it is light-hearted and it keeps the story moving ! It's really nice to have a romance manga that doesn't get stuck on some repetitive dilemmas. You've got characters that are growing and moving forward. I really love this series and it's an instant feel good !

This is an absolutely wonderful manga about a simple misunderstanding setting off a chain of delightful high school love hijinks. It's one of my favorite manga series, and I can't keep it on my library's shelves!

After reading three volumes, My Love Mix-Up! is worth the read and I look forward to reading more. I find myself laughing out loud at all the hilarious situations and misunderstandings the characters go through while their relationships continue to grow. Aoki as the protagonist is wholesome and cares genuinely for the people around him. Readers will root for him as he tries to make sense of his feelings towards the one he loves most in this heartwarming romantic comedy.

Aoki is such a pure soul and I really root for him and feel for him. He’s so sensitive and really takes everything to heart, for better or worse, and I’m glad to see a character, especially a male character, feel things so strongly and learn how to react and cope with these feelings. Hashimoto is once again the star—she got to show her hilarious (albeit accidentally) side and I adore her so much. This side plot with her and Aida was also refreshingly realistic and believable and I was completely fine with it!

My Love Mix-up! by Wataru Hinekure is a tender and humorous story about high school and the emotions that occur during such a pivotal time. It's characters are exactly who you would want as a friend: caring, helpful, encouraging and so on. Any slice of life reader or teen who enjoys school contemporary stories will love My Love Mix-up!

My Love Mix-Up! Volume Three sees character progression for all four of the main characters.

My Love Mix-Up! Volume Three
Written by: Wataru Hinekure
Publisher: Shueisha Inc.
English Publisher: VIZ Media
Release Date: April 5, 2022

At the beginning of the volume, it’s revealed that Aida has a girlfriend, just in time for the upcoming class trip. When Aoki tries to get Hashimoto to not give up and confess her feelings to Aida, she points out how he’s given up just as much as she has when it comes to Ida.

A bit of Volume Three focuses on the class trip, which turns out to be a skiing boot camp. While I understand what Hinekure was trying to do with the storyline at this camp with Aoki and Hashimoto, I still found this to be a little unrealistic. The students really had no idea where they were going for their class trip and what they would be doing? And the treatment the “D” Class (which includes Aoki and Hashimoto) just seemed cruel and “over the top.”

While I really didn’t care for the skiing boot camp, a very important plot development happens while they’re there: Aoki confesses his feelings to Ida. While this is a very important plot point, I wish Hinekure had found another way for this confession to happen, in an environment and storyline that didn’t feel quite so “over the top.”

But Aoki’s confession leads to something surprising for him: Ida suggests that the two of them start dating. After they agree to try, this leads to awkwardness between the two of them, because neither one them has dated anyone before, so they really don’t know what to do. It’s awkward, but also adorable at the same time. By the end of this volume, I couldn’t help but start shipping these two.

Meanwhile, Hashimoto learns from Aida that his girlfriend broke up with him during the class trip, and it was for a very shallow reason. Hashimoto takes the leap and confesses her feelings to him, but it doesn’t work out for her because Aida just sees her as a friend. Also, it turns out that the precious memories Hashimoto had of the two of them (like the help he gave her at the entrance exam), he has no memory of. When Hashimoto shares this with Aoki, he decides he’s going to try to help… but he ultimately makes the situation worse. Aoki had good intentions, but this was really something he shouldn’t have gotten involved in. When all is said and done, though, Aida is more than willing to be friends with Hashimoto, but he just can’t see them going out.

After I finished reading this volume, I thought that the character and relationship progressions felt natural. My only gripe was the “window dressing” around Aoki’s confession to Ida because of the unrealistic skiing boot camp. But what I appreciated in this volume is how Hinekure made me want to ship Aoki and Ida, which isn’t something I thought I ever would have done back in Volume One. Back then, I found myself rooting for Aoki and Hashimoto. But over the past couple of volumes, Aoki and Ida have developed a very natural chemistry.

When it comes to the art, I really liked the art on page 18. Both of the panels on this page have great images of the four main characters, and these panels really jumped out at me. I also liked the panel on page 74 that features Hashimoto, because Aruko perfectly captured her expression in the moment. But for the most part, a lot of the art looked more on the “average” side in this volume.

My Love Mix-Up! Volume Three finally moves the story up to the next level, and at the end of it, I genuinely found myself wanting to read the next volume in order to find out how Aoki and Ida’s relationship will continue to evolve. I honestly believe that readers who have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of the series will really like how the story progresses in Volume Three.

There's not a ton of plot progression to this volume, but what we have is important. Mostly this is due to the fact that it continues to explore the idea of who you like and why while simultaneously having nothing to do with gender or sexuality; it's tackling the topic from a strictly emotional point of view. Aoki finally confessing to Ida means that the other boy is really starting to think about his feelings and to realize that maybe there's more going on than he initially thought when it comes to Aoki, while Hashimoto is forced to realize that events that meant the world to her weren't even on Aida's radar. Aida again comes off as surprisingly not terrible, which may be the volume's biggest triumph; it would have been so easy to just make him a superficial jerk. But everyone's got their own perspective, and that this series (and this book in particular) really remembers that elevates it above a lot of other romantic comedies.

Now if it could just stop it with the needless gorilla faces, it'd be damn near perfect.

4.5-5 Stars

I'm liking where this is going! We've made some serious progress with this volume and I'm really looking forward to Hashimoto's plan of attack :) Great installment. If you aren't on this series' bandwagon yet, now's the time to binge before Vol 4 comes out.

Thank you to VIZ Media and NetGalley for this eARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and Viz for a free advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

My Love Mix-Up! Volume 3 follows the main cast on a school trip to Hokkaido. Secrets are revealed, feelings deepen, and emotions run high in another exciting installment to this fun and fluffy series.

Art: Aruko
Story: Wataru Hinekure
Translation & Adaptation: Jan Cash
Touch-up Art and Lettering: Inori Fukuda Trant
Design: Yukiko Whitley
Editor: Nancy Thistlewaite

Thank you to NetGalley and Viz Media for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this volume. In this volume, it's time for the school trip that changes EVERYTHING. They go on a skiing trip that's more akin to a hardcore bootcamp than a relaxing school trip. Aida, Ida get placed in Class A because they actually know what they're doing whereas Aoki and Hashimoto get placed in Class D because they can't skii to save their lives. The group then decides to run away but when Aida and Hashimoto end up separating from Ida and Aoki, things change and Ida ends up falling from a cliff and getting injured...

This volume was sooo cute and heartwarming... Yet again confirming how much this series heals my grouchy adult soul. Things are progressing slowly and not without bumps for all 4 protagonists but I can't say I mind because there are plenty of hilarious, pure, heartwarming, soul healing moments. Also, I had an inkling that Ida was Aromantic/Asexual but now I believe he's demisexual/demiromantic which I am very happy about. Yay to awesome representation!
Now that I think about it Aoki might be demiromantic as well which would be super super cool.

I'm so happy Viz Media and NetGalley confirmed my request for this eARC and here's to me hoping I get an eARC for volume 4 too. #MyLoveMixUpVol3 #NetGalley.

This title never fails to entertain me. Thank you as always to NetGalley and Viz Media for allowing me to read the ARC of this manga!

I am really pleased with this volume as we finally see a big chunk of progress being made between our characters. No spoilers, but I'm glad it didn't take an entire series for our characters to do big things! I love this series and I adore how it is written and it is entirely friendly for all audiences. It helps explore relationships and developing feelings that may arise during high school. It also normalizes the idea of liking someone of the same gender and how you work through that and understand yourself better. I love that!

I love everything about this manga!!!!!!! I love how real it is and genuine the character's feelings and reactions are .. makes me tear up over nothing

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher I was able to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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My Love Mix-Up vol. 3 is the further adventures of Aoki trying to confess his feelings to Ida. This manga is so adorable, between Aoki and Hashimoto commiserating their inability to admit their feelings to their crushes, Ida being bewildered by Aoki but still liking him back (but not sure if it’s romantic in nature, very strong aromantic vibes from Ida), Aida just being bewildered by everything and still the best worst friend ever to Aoki, this is a fun series.
There is a school trip to Hokkaido and skiing, feelings being discussed and general fun in this volume.

My Love Mix- Up debuted last year to great fanfare. Easily charming, this school life genre manga with story by Wataru Hinekure and art by Aruko features a great misunderstanding, mistaken identity which leads to an unexpected romance blooming. It all starts with Aoki, a young man who has the biggest crush on sweet Hashimoto, the cutest girl in the world that he sits near in class. When he borrows her eraser in class, he sees a name on it: Ida. The real life Ida, another boy in class discovers that Aoki has an eraser with his name on it. It is basically akin to find a notebook of someone at school and finding their crush’s name doodled in the margins of the book. Our protagonist finds out that his dream girl likes his best friend, Aida and to add to the confusion Aoki starts to get to know Ida and the plot thickens!


Volume two establishes the playing field for these teenagers as they start off this volume in school and plan a study session at Ida’s house: Aoki has already confessed to Ida. Hashimoto knows of her budding feelings. Aida thinks something is going on and wrongly assumes that she has a crush on Aoki, unaware that she’s crushing on him instead. As the chapters show us that miscommunications and misread signals are everywhere, the hi-jinks and hilarious moments continue in such good fun. Just when the misunderstanding seems to be cleared up, Aoki is down in the dumps as he’s legitimately found himself interested in Ida–he’s found a good friend in Hashimoto and all their lives become even more entangled.

Volume three opens to a hilarious event: a school trip where both Aoki and Hashimoto find themselves at the mercy of a tyrant like ski master who exclaims that there will be no rest and relaxation at this haven in the snow–how you perform on the snow slopes in terms of athleticism determines your score! This translates to if superb food, first dibs at the baths and nice rooms–IF you’re a natural born athlete on the snow. For Ida and Aida–that’s no problem. But for our cinnamon-buns, they are suffering.

The artwork of this series, which has never been super polished really leans into the strength of so many exaggerated scenes like our two cinnamon rolls with big shojo eyes enlarged when they find themselves at the mercy of the other two, receiving better food at the ski resort. Or the pure look of madness and desperation of wanting to save the person you’ve been crushing on after they’ve been injured in a snow storm. What I love the most and truly what comes across the best in this volume is the four characters choosing not to be cowards and choosing to speak their minds. At the start of this book both Hashimoto and Aoki were crushed by their inability to fess up to the boys and tell them their true feelings.

By the halfway point after things wind down towards the end of the school trip, both of them take the courage and initiative to tell the one that they are in love with what’s up. But even that’s not a happy ending–you have to earn those, you know? All four of them come back to school with different expectations–Aoki is over the moon that his confession was taken seriously but how no clue how to proceed. The other confession doesn’t seem to go the way that person expected and everyone is affected by the confession as the ripples hit their everyday school lives.

The way Aoki, Ida, Aida and Hashimoto keep falling into each other's lives is funny and it is fascinating–confessions are not always end game or even and assuming things about others does not always make people happy. If I can take a line from one of the last pages of this volume: “Love might be what keep people honest” and that is just one observation that keeps me reading this series. My Love Mix-Up! Is very much a manga on blossoming romance between two boys yet it is so comedic and full of characters that fill up the pages and make me wish each volume was just a few chapters,a few pages longer.

As always with this series, the newest volume of My Love Mix-Up is delightful. I really appreciate how authentic the characters feel, even if their story line is getting a tad dramatic. Great characters, great story. Can't wait for more.

My Love Mix-Up has easily risen in the ranks of my favorite wholesome and all-ages BL titles. What began as a miscommunication between Aoki and his crush Hashimoto and who he thought was her crush Ida has now blossomed into a supportive love story between the two boys. Last volume, miscommunications were cleared up and Ida learned the truth, that the confession Aoki gave him was to keep Hashimoto from being found out. But with the air cleared, Aoki couldn’t help but feel let down, because now, more than ever, he knows that he’s fallen for Ida. With My Love Mix-Up Volume 3, everything comes to a head on the class trip and the romance blossoms.

My Love Mix-Up Volume 3 is written by mangaka Wataru HInekuri and illustrated by mangaka Aruka. The series is published and localized in English by VIZ Media through their Shojo Beat imprint, though it was initially published in 2019. The Shojo Beat Edition of My Love Mix-Up Volume 3 features an adaptation and translation from Jan Cash, touch-up art & lettering by Inori Fukuda Trant, design by Yukiko Whitley, and is edited by Nancy Thistlewaite.

In this volume, Aoki’s class trip is underway and it’s not the joy he envisioned. Instead of bonding with his classmates, they’re all divided into groups at a ski resort based on their talent level…which puts Aoki and Hashimoto in Group D. Struggling to find some sense of happiness amid terrible meals and a bad ski instructor, Hashimoto and Aoki keep each other company and attempt to help each other in love. When Aida (Hashimoto’s crush) and Ida end up in group A, the two make a break for it to keep their friends company. Going with the mood, Aoki takes Ida away, leaving Hashimoto and Aida alone, hoping that they begin to bond. But the mood isn’t set just for them, but for Ida and Aoki too. With one final miscommunication to clear up, Aoki explains that he is actually in love with Ida, even if it all began as a cover-up.

With everything cleared up, My Love Mix-Up gets to move forward full steam ahead with an overt romance between Aoki and Ida. But like the romance in Ima Koi, this is one about communication and finding out how you feel for the other person. That openness is what has made My Love Mix-Up such a cute story. It’s purely teens exploring their emotions, being open about them, and viewing a relationship as something you grow into instead of something you know right from the jump.

The earnest way that Ida opens his heart to Aoki, despite being unsure what “liking someone” even means is an emotional exploration that gives the character depth. Ida is a “good guy” but he’s also unsure. Not unsure that he wants to learn more about Aoki and Aoki’s romantic feelings, but unsure of who he is. Opening up to Aoki is just as much about exploring what love even means to begin with as it is about growing to love the guy who has a crush on him.

For his part, Aoki is learning how to speak up and share how he feels even if he feels awkward or unsure. He’s hard on himself and on the position he’s put Ida in by confessing. But the story here is about validating the idea of a romance between the two of them and ultimately exploring it. It’s new for both boys, and ultimately discovering love together is what makes the story healthy and wholesome.

I want more stories that have the resolution that we see in My Love Mix-Up Volume 3. I want more cute shonen-ai that explores finding out what romance, dating, and love even meanwhile also breaking stigmas on queer relationships. My Love Mix-Up is a series that is vital in its romance and its caring exploration of identity. But beyond that, it’s just so dang wholesome and good.

My Love Mix-Up vol. 3 continues the trials and tribulations of our main character, Aoki, and his relationship (is it) with Ida. In this volume the kids go on that Big Event of Japanese high school: the class trip! Limits are pushed, truths come out, and Aoki ends up exhibiting some hilariously ugly faces and even some non-human form for a bit in volume 3. The story continues to be absolutely refreshing, funny, and still realistic with how earnest the cast tries to be with their feelings---feelings that they are still figuring out. They are still teenagers, so this is normal, and since they are fictional teenagers, I have no problem laughing at their shenanigans. (I received a free eARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.)