Cliff’s gonna Cliff to the last moment.
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.
The spinoff draws to a close with this chapter and it’s another little frustrating piece. Some of that just comes from not reading the main series, but it’s such a choppy work in trying to get things done that it left me cool toward it. The last chapter worked better than most, with Reiji and Alice finally putting a lot of things out there that needed to be said, and it resulted in some truly passionate intimacy between them that will loosen him up a bit more. The next morning has him enjoying it as much as he can show as they’re together in bed, but everything shifts when Amamiya gets in touch with him to torment him, but also to let him know Cliff has requested a meeting in just under an hour in his office, since Cliff is flying back to America later that day and has something to discuss.
Reiji knows it’s going to be Alice, and it’s no surprise that it is. Cliff still just can’t quite get it and keeps needling Reiji in different ways, but Reiji just plays it coolly as he always has. Which frustrates Cliff even more. Cliff just missed his window by a mile and isn’t letting going, which is just painting him as a worse and worse character as it goes on. It’s fairly childish in watching him throughout this, with Reiji keeping his composure overall, but it ends as you’d expect with Cliff leaving but still intent on trying in some way again some day. But that’s never going to happen, since Alice is very much bonded to him. The small time we get as closure to the series with the two in the hotel room after the meeting is pretty good, with him regretting keeping her distant for as long as he did and to do the whole job thing, but there were solid reasons to that. But he makes clear his intention that she will be his wife, and she already considers herself that. That’s some nice playfulness to it as well with some very physical moments, and it does leave the two in a good place for the reader.
In Summary:
I didn’t go into this series with any real notions about it, and I didn’t even realize it was a spinoff of another book until much later into reading it. It’s got some fun ideas, and I like the characters in abstract, but it just didn’t execute it well. It’s both condensed and choppy, leading you to not enjoying the characters much. Perhaps it works better if you know them from the main book, even as secondary characters, but the book should be able to stand on its own as well as it could be, like me, your first impression of the creatives behind it. It did play well with the intimate material and had a good sense of both fun and pleasure, but it just feel very short on character for most of it and was a hard read because of it at times.
Content Grade: B-
Art Grade: B
Text/Translation Grade: B+
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: Seven Seas Entertainment
Chris Beveridge
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