This was a really sweet, light romance. I liked that the main character loved space but I just cracked up every time that I read his name. Like of course he's gonna like space they named him NASA. It's like when you know someone is the main character because they have blue hair. Overall, I enjoyed this one. I'm curious to see where the story will go from here so I will definitely be checking out volume 2!

A young man's life course is altered by the chance encounter with a mysterious girl in this sweet romance manga. After being teased about his name from an early age, Nasa Yuzaki becomes driven by a need to be more famous than the institution he's named after (yes, that N.A.S.A.). But all that changes when he is nearly killed while chasing after a beautiful girl. Before passing out, Nasa begs her to be his girlfriend, to which she says yes, if he will marry her. When Nasa awakes, the girl is gone, and he begins to live a simpler life, graduating from high school and living alone while saving money. One day, the mystery girl appears at his door with a marriage license, so Nasa begins a new chapter of his life as Tsukasa's husband. A sweet take on the "we had to get married" trope that focuses on the practical standpoint of setting up house, Nasa's earnestness will have readers eager for the next volume.

This was kinda an odd story line. Why would you marry someone you don't even know when you have never had any other relationships. But is was intriguing none the less. It ended in such a way that I think readers will want to know what happens next.

Well, that was weird. That is my overall opinion of this book, weird. It felt kind of off to me, I don't know why exactly but I just didn't really like what it had going for it. The art was ok but the story was just not something I was into. I like slice-of-life manga well enough but the setup for this one just didn't pan out in a way I liked. The characters were not amongst my favorites for protagonists, they were just too mysterious without being intriguing and too smart without any conflicts. I know that none of this is particularly helpful but I just didn't vibe with this book to either extreme of emotions. It was fine. I'm sure others will like it more than I did and I say hats off to them, but this was just not my cup of tea.

Honestly this manga was weird. They meet randomly and randomly agree to marry each other, and then they do! The boy obsesses over how cute the girl is, and that's literally the ONLY trait he likes about her. No thanks.

I like reading Manga and this was a great start to a new series. I am curious to see how it continues. I love the sci-fi/ Fantasy elements.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. This is a very cute story, not the type of manga I normally read but it was enjoyable.

Sets the series off with a bang. Really interesting to see how the female lead is much creepier / more mysterious in the first volume than in later ones. Would like to see the author get back to that.

*I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

An interesting book. Not my style, so it is hard to review, but it isn't a bad book. It is more slice of life with a fantasy/sci-fi bent with lots of room for humor to come.

This manga is from weekly shonen Sunday. A really rare pick up!

The premise here is interesting since it features a married couple. The romance is really fluffy, and I love the main character. He makes me laugh with his funny outbursts and faces. I love his wife too. Very cute couple. Would be awesome to be able to read more of it!

A soulmate is a person that has been predetermined by fate as our perfect other half. Most manga, especially shoujo, tend to delve into this notion. After all, there are a lot of testimonials and anecdotes to either prove or disprove this very theory. As for whether it is real or not, reality has yet to prove it. However, we here in Honey’s Anime will believe that our soulmate -- other than our readers, of course -- exists somewhere out there.

Nasa's parents thought they were being creative when they named their son after the Space Exploration group. Now in middle school, Nasa put himself under immense pressure to succeed and exceed expectations in order to live up to his name. Then he sees Tsukasa, a mysterious but super cute girl.  Nasa confesses his love for Tsukasa, but she agrees to date him only if he marries her. He immediately says yes, but she disappears shortly after. 

Nasa is involved in an accident, and the ensuing medical treatment leeches his drive to be the best.  He decides not to go to high school and starts working instead, all the while looking for Tsukasa. Three years later, she shows up, marriage license in hand, ready to date Nasa.  He agrees, the two are married, and Tsukasa moves in to his tiny apartment.  The two must figure out who they are, how to live together, and how to navigate life as a married couple. 

This is a really cute story full of relationship exploration that usually accompanies a title about a first love, but this has the added element of the couple being married.  We spend a lot of time up front getting to known Nasa that when Tsukasa shows up again, there is a relief that she came back, rather than a huge question as to why she has to be married in order to date.  There's nothing in the first volume that lends to the "plus" in the publisher's rating, but there is potential for some adult scenes later in the series when the two know each other better. 

Both characters are drawn in a very cute manner, and the cuteness factor goes up any time Tsukasa does anything funny or interesting.  There is a bit of a mystique surrounding Tsukasa, and the mangaka's end note lets us know that there is something strange about her that he decided not to reveal in this first volume, so it's worth continuing the read to figure out what is strange about her.

This is a cute story, if a little bland so far. Nasa, who has always been teased for being named after N.A.S.A., decides when he's young that he wants to live up to his name, and so strives to be the best at everything. This over-achievement has made him a bit sheltered, and he has no clue about girls. When a girl saves him from being killed by a truck, he falls in insta-love, and asks her out. She agrees, but only if he'll marry her. He agrees, faints, and wakes up in the hospital, recovering from his accident. Some years go by, and he's now 18, living on his own in an apartment, when the girl shows up. They go get married, and a bunch of awkwardness ensues. Does he dare hold her hand? What will their sleeping arrangements be? Is he going to get flustered every time he looks at her? Stuff like that. Very trope-y, not that that's a bad thing. This volume does not answer the big question- who is this girl, anyway? It's hinted that she has some sort of powers, so what's up? There's not a lot going on so far, but it's cute enough that I'll read the next volume, and the art is pretty. 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4.

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A cute romance manga? YES PLEASE! The art is so pretty. I do feel the beginning is a little jarring... like it just throws the reader into the story and I wasn't sure if I'd missed something or not. Once, I caught on, it was great and the story is cute. Can't wait to read more!

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Super cute romance manga with fun mystery around the main heroine. Is she an alien or some sort of holy being? I will likely read the entire series as it comes out because I love Shoujo manga but with that comes the tropes that readers love and hate. I'm hoping this series will give us more to love in the next installment.

Manga romances have been my life-support during lockdown. From the more adult josei and yaoi titles to the more wholesome shojo, I’ve been reading just about every single one I can. Now, with Fly Me to the Moon Volume 1, the debut manga for the series published in English VIZ Media, there is a new level of wholesome achieved. Written and illustrated by mangaka Kenjiro Hata, Fly Me to the Moon puts marriage first in the timeline and readers watch as it develops into a relationship. The debut of this series coincides with the news Crunchyroll announced this past weekend at the Virtual Crunchyroll Expo which shared character art of the upcoming anime.

In Fly Me to the Moon Volume 1 we meet Nasa Yuzaki who has always felt connected to outer space. Named after N.A.S.A. – yes, that N.A.S.A – our protagonist has grown accustomed to being bullied for his name. But instead of letting the bullies get to him, he has instead vowed to shoot past the stars and be more memorable than the organization responsible for being the first on the moon. A tall task, he’s thrown off course when an accident introduces him to the mysterious Tsukasa. She’s cute, she reminds him of Princess Kaguya, and she also has strange powers. So is she the moon goddess herself? Or something all together?

Smitten with her at first sight, he asks her out, but she has other plans. Instead of a date, Tsukasa agrees to be with Nasa only through marriage. While he agrees, Tsukasa disappears quickly after and leaves him to spend the next few years pining over her and throwing all of his plans for success out the window. But, when he’s 18, the mysteriously cute girl shows up again and the story really kicks off – because their marriage does.

Fly Me to the Moon is adorable but it is also very much stuck in the manga trope of a hapless boy coupled with a superpowered, capable, but cluelessly cute girl. While this trope can take on disturbing forms like Yuna and Yuki in Future Diary, I’m very happy to say that this manga avoids the most problematic elements of the trope. While this is one that bugs me to no end, especially learning Tsukasa is 16 years-old from the character information page featured at the end of the book, overall, Tsukasa and Nasa are wholesome. Genuinely, take the most wholesome anime romance you know and dial up the awkward and cuteness up to 10, and there you have Fly Me to the Moon.

The two lead characters are written to showcase the awkward sexual tension that happens when you’re in a room alone with someone you’re attracted to but it never crosses a line into vulgarity or ecchi comedy. Instead, it remains focused on the cuteness of it all and Nasa and Tsukasa’s ignorance of what being a couple means, let alone what being married means. Additionally, this title offers up a slice of life more so than it does pure romance.

Overall, Fly Me to the Moon Volume 1 is adorable and one that I recommend for people looking for an adorable manga. It isn’t revolutionary or groundbreaking, but it does the job it sets out to do which is to introduce you to the characters and get you to feel for their blooming romance.

A speedy start to the series leaving leaving you feeling that you’ve missed something. This volume sets up a number of questions that will hopefully get resolved as other volumes come along. The male lead, Nasa (named so in the hopes that it inspires him to aim for the stars) appears to be a book smart if somewhat dumb in other areas that is almost immediately dragged along by Tsukasa’s (the female lead that is left deliberately mysterious with no back story) pace. Hopefully this series will start to develop the characters more in future volumes as their relationship provides comedy gold.

“Fly Me to the Moon” hopes for a smooth landing in a new relationship (Opinions Portion of Article)

Hata spoke during Virtual Crunchyroll Expo about the manga and its upcoming anime adaptation. He said that he wanted to make a story that started with a marriage which he called the last step of the relationship and differed from the pattern from other romantic stories like his own. Few others have similar situations like “Engaged to the Unidentified” and “Please Teacher!” but “Fly Me to the Moon” settles down quite quickly to show how the newlyweds make the apartment more homely. For those who enjoyed “Hayate the Combat Butler” will find the hard hitting gags and other funny moments Hata had in his previous series. Readers will find that Nasa’s wife will also have some strangeness like him. Their relationship is quite intriguing and will want fans to know more about his “Princess Kaguya” while seeing how things will turn out.

Nasa Yuzaki, is such a funny character. His name means "Starry Sky" because his name sounds like N.A.S.A kids used to make fun of him, and he said he would hit light speed faster than N.A.S.A. I really like him and the mysterious girl who rescued him one night. He falls in love with her, asks her out, and even agrees to marry her Nasa, is a hard worker and super smart.
This is such a cute manga!

Fly Me to the Moon Volume One tells the story of a young man named Nasa Yuzaki and how he meets the girl who becomes his wife.

Fly Me to the Moon Volume One
Written by: Kenjiro Hata
Publisher: Shogakukan
English Publisher: VIZ Media
Release Date: September 8, 2020

The main protagonist is a young man named Nasa Yuzaki. When he’s born, his parents give name him “Nasa,” and use the kanji for starry sky. Apparently, his parents want him to grow up with ambitions as big as the universe. It’s bad enough that they have such high expectations for their child, but to saddle him with a name that he gets teased with as a kid (because of the connection to the NASA agency) is a bit cruel. The teasing makes Nasa want to become so awesome that when anyone hears the word “Nasa,” they’ll think of him. In middle school, he decides he wants to go to one the top high schools in Japan that’s hard to get into. The teacher makes a comment to the effect of not getting too attached to this goal, because fate may have something different in store for him. At that point, you know this line of dialogue is a flag to set something up.

Unfortunately, fate does decide that things will not go as planned for Nasa. A sudden blizzard hits shortly before the entrance exams, and while walking home in the snow, Nasa sees a girl that he thinks is beautiful. He’s so unaware of his surroundings to notice that a truck is coming his way. The girl notices, though, and takes some of the impact to save Nasa. Nasa’s still pretty injured, though, but he is bound and determined to talk to this girl and ask her out. When he blurts out wanting to go out with her, she says yes but under one condition: he has to marry her. He blurts out that he agrees to this right before passing out.

From here, Nasa’s life changes drastically. He misses the entrance exams due to being in the hospital with his injuries, so he couldn’t start high school. The next year he passes the exams, but he drops out before paying the school fees. During this time, he keeps hoping the mystery girl will see him, but she doesn’t. Nasa drops out of school to work in customer service and delivery jobs, hoping to see her… but nothing. He also decides to get an apartment of his own in order to get away from his fretting parents.

Then, one day, after Nasa turns 18, the mystery girl appears at his doorstep and introduces herself as Tsukasa. She holds him to his promise of marriage and has even brought a marriage registration with her. It turns out she wasn’t kidding about needing to marry her before Nasa can go out with her. From here, the volume shows the two of them filling out and delivering the marriage registration to the ward office, and then the awkwardness of suddenly being married and needing to figure out how to accommodate Tsukasa at the apartment. And since these two have never dated, much less held hands before, there’s a lot of awkwardness when it comes to cohabitating and just being with each other.

As a character, Nasa is definitely book smart, but is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to a lot of other things. I don’t really have much of an impression of Tsukasa yet, though. There seems to be something a little “off” about her, but I can’t quite seem to put my finger on why I feel this way about her.

I admit that after finishing this volume, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this series. It certainly feels like Volume One is setting up the story, but the whole getting the marriage started just kind of feels… too easy, somehow. I honestly hope that as the series continues, there will be something deeper that develops than what we see on the surface here. If the series stays at this surface level, I don’t think I’m going to enjoy it very much in the long run. But if it can start exposing a deeper story of some kind and have a twist showing that things aren’t simply what they seem right now, then I might see some promise here. I’m willing to try the next volume of Fly Me to the Moon at some point and see if this is a series I want to follow for the long haul.