This is going to be a short review, for the record. In fact, let me prevent most of you from wasting time reading the rest of it: the two main characters spend the vast majority of this volume broken up. As such, they have no sex. Instead, they just whine, angst, and emo all the time, like the worst sort of melodramatic 8th-grade bullshit.

Okay, if you're still here, you're either a masochist or you're just plain curious. So, here we go: Naoki, having chased Narusawa-sensei all around Japan and the USA, has had another serious asthma attack. Narusawa-sensei has to meet with Naoki's parents. Naoki's dad tells Narusawa to break up with the kid. Narusawa's like, "durrrr, okay!"

Naoki, co-dependent moron that he is, gets a bit upset. To the degree that he has another attack. So Narusawa feels guilty for causing another attack when he just wanted to do what was best for Naoki. Naoki is so shocked that he didn't die when he lost Narusawa that he decides to try and forget Narusawa entirely and rejects any vaguely friendly overtures.

The closest thing you get to sex in this volume is a little omake flashback that Narusawa has at the end, except that it meshes so perfectly with what just happened in the last page of the regular manga that you don't realize it's a flashback at first. And the sex? All bits are covered and it's short to boot.



So, like I said...this entire volume is nothing but Narusawa and Naoki whining about not being together, because they are stupid self-absorbed assholes with nothing better to do.

I am swiftly losing patience with this series. Will I read Jazz 4? Yes, but only because it's the last volume, and I can't stand to be left hanging.

Everything else (art, printing, etc) is on par with previous volumes of Jazz.

Unless you're really into certain kinds of manipulation and emo, I would really not recommend getting into this series-- or continuing it if you already bought earlier volumes.

Mangaka: Takamure Tamotsu and Maeda Sakae
Censorship: N/A
Warnings: Emo emo emo, angst angst angst, no sex.