A whirlwind engagement that results in… two dinners?
Creative Staff
Story/Art: Miju Inou / Fumi Takamura
Translation: Jan Cash
Adaptation: KR Pietila
Lettering: Carolina Hernandez Mednaoz
What They Say
Alice, heiress of the prestigious Cunningham Hotel Tokyo, knows just how lucky she is. Her fiancé, Reiji, the Cunninghams’ dedicated secretary, is handsome, cool, and responsible–and Alice is completely head over heels for him. Yet no matter how fervently she expresses her love, his responses are always ice-cold. Sure, he’ll tease her with passionate kisses, drive her wild with his touch, and ensure she drowns in waves of pleasure. But what she truly desires is his heart! Does Reiji love her, or is it purely physical between them?
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Known originally as Kimi Ha Ore No Tsuma Ni Narunodakara, it’s also searchable as 君は俺の妻になるのだから, and it’s localized as You Will Become My Wife for the English release. The manga comes from writer Miju Inoue and artist Fumi Takamura, which began in 2023 and was completed with just seven chapters. Full volume reviews just aren’t my jam or in my workflow, especially an omnibus, so I wanted to work through a series on my own schedule and spend the time to talk about it chapter by chapter. Seven Seas Entertainment picked it up in English, with its single volume arriving in July 2025, giving fans a new series to read through its Steamship imprint that’s designed for “sexy romance for women,” which invariably includes me because this kind of stuff is my jam.
While I like the concept of this series and its kind of flashy “prime time” drama aspect, it’s frustrating in how it’s setting everything up. After a pretty intense night together in the first chapter, we see Reiji heading back to Japan as planned and not waking her, going against her request. Reiji’s story is what makes up the first half as we see how he was basically won over by her persistence a year ago, but had his demands about it because of their age difference and how she has to come up in the company. But he’s still thrown by it all, and we see his longtime friend in Japan, Amimya, giving him some level of grief over it since he was always the never-marry and no-kids person. But he’s found his person and everything can change.
So while he’s off working, she wakes up to find the note, gets frustrated, and decides to fly from New York to Japan. Now, that should be cheap for an heiress, but she’s living within the means of her job so things are tight. And she doesn’t let Reiji know about her flight either. So it’s fun to see as she dreams of spending time with him here, which she plans to move to anyway soon enough, but she freaks out over the high price of the restaurant in her family hotel. It’s goofy, and I get it, but seeing Amimya come across her, use her to torment Reiji from afar a bit, and set a few things aflutter is fun. But the reveal that even after knowing each other for a year and being engaged, and sleeping together regularly when they do come across each other, that this is their second formal meal out just feels weird. Something about the setup of the entire relationship just feels like barely an afterthought.
In Summary:
There’s just an odd flow to the relationship that doesn’t click for me here in these early chapters, but I’m trying to ignore it and gloss over it since it’s just a one-volume book overall. A rich character story is not what’s in the cards here, but rather just a look at how it plays out and the drama and lust of it all. Which is fine! This chapter is a lot more dialogue-heavy as it digs into Reiji’s mindset more, and we get some fun with Alice as she deals with not having Cunningham money for the moment and living like a normal person. It’s light on the sexytimes, but the epilogue to the night before has its fun moments and good recollection.
Content Grade: B
Art Grade: B
Text/Translation Grade: B+
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: Seven Seas Entertainment
Chris Beveridge
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