This manga is about a high school wife and her police officer husband, but I have to go off-track for a moment:
Kako’s teacher sucks.
The “bad teacher” in his profile description is right. He shrugs off any concerns about Kako being in the same class — and later seated next to — Okami, the leader of the boys who tried to attack Kota last volume. Then, in a bonus story that was written before My Boy in Blue, he makes a student go pick up and deliver flowers to a “friend”, who is probably a prostitute. This is between all his other appearances where he looks and acts annoyed by his students in general. My Boy in Blue is not the first manga to make you wonder how a teacher got their license, but this guy really takes away from the overall fun of the story.
As I mentioned, Okami returns in this volume after being forced to repeat a year. Kako is understandably unnerved when he keeps staring at and chasing after her. It turns out that while he was okay with pointing a fake gun at a cop, he is very upset about injuring a girl and wants to apologize. For a manga like this, it’s better not to have a young wannabe criminal trying to mess with the heroine, but this change is abrupt. Well, I guess it fits considering the fast-pace theme of the romance, but does anybody in this town take more than a day to make life-altering decisions?
While Kako starts forming a friendship with Okami, her husband is suspicious…and not just because of the threat of violence. Okami believes that Kota is like a second cousin or something to Kako, and even though he learns Kako is seeing someone, I sense a love triangle is brewing.
That shouldn’t be a surprise for readers of romance manga, but it might make more sense here. After all, the newlyweds’ marriage is still very much in the dating stage, with Kako having much to learn about Kota. However, she’s still head over heads for him, and there’s a chapter and a sweet bonus story that shows Kota feels at ease around his new wife. But it’s when his superior, Yamamoto, teases him that we see that Kota truly is happy about being with Kako. I also hope there’s a translation error in one of his scenes; otherwise, I think the middle aged Yamamoto just got the go-ahead to flirt with Kako from her husband…?
Otherwise, My Boy in Blue volume 2 is the real first volume of this happy-go-lucky series, and if you’re interested, start here. Okami’s repentance comes as sudden as Kota’s proposal, and readers might as well get to straight to the heart of the story: a secret marriage between a typical high school girl and a hardworking cop.