Fly Me To The Moon: Tsukasa And Nasa Face A Major Crisis

Warning: containers spoilers for Fly Me to the Moonvol. 4!

In the latest volume from author Kenjiro Hata (Hayate the Combat Butler) – a newlywed writing about newlyweds – Tsukasa and Nasa face their first real trial as a couple. Viz Media is gearing up for more fun with this pair of newlyweds in the latest volume of Fly Me to the Moon (Japanese title: Tonikaku Kawaii) releasing on March 9.

Originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday since February 2018, the series is up to fourteen volumes in Japan so far and received a twelve-episode anime adaptation in 2020. If you haven’t been keeping up with this romantic comedy, the story starts with a young boy named Nasa who, on a snowy winter night, sees a girl across the road and decides to go talk to her. Unfortunately while attempting to do that, he gets hit by a truck and would’ve died had it not been for the girl – named Tsukasa – coming to his rescue. Asking her out immediately, she agrees to go out with him only if they get married beforehand, which he agrees to. Vanishing, she appears at the door of his apartment a couple of years later with a marriage license ready to be stamped and turned in. Thus begins their life together.

In the latest volume, after spending time with his parents and doing some sightseeing in Kyoto, they get back home to a shocking surprise… their apartment building was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, taking almost all of their possessions with it. Now they’re homeless, and Tsukasa is down to a minimal amount of underwear. What’s a couple to do?

It’s in this volume that Tsukasa gets to see what her new husband is truly made of when she witnesses him in action in an emergency situation for the first time. Luckily, she is impressed to see him acting in a caring and responsible manner, which makes her fall in love with him even more. Finding a place to stay in the back of the bathhouse that they frequent, the shenanigans continue when Nasa’s classmate, Aya Arisugawa, finds out about his new marriage and experiences her first heartbreak, declaring through the fourth wall that “My first love was over in ten pages,” before coming to terms with the situation and realizing that she’s missed her opportunity to be with him.

It will please fans of Kenjiro Hata to know that his tradition of inserting deep-cut anime and manga references throughout the volume continues unabated. Hata has never been afraid of inserting Japanese pop culture references into his works, and Fly Me to the Moon is absolutely no different in that regard. If that’s not enough to convince you, there are also tons of romantic hijinks within these pages when the happy couple must do laundry and go out on a shopping trip for new clothes. If you enjoyed Hata’s previous work, you should absolutely make a beeline towards his newest series and take a trip to the moon when it is released on March 9.

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