Is Fly Me to the Moon Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read

Quick facts
Format	Manga, 90 chapters
Run	2018–present · ongoing
Community score	AniList 8.0 · MangaUpdates 7.2
Where to read	VIZ — official

Overview

Nasa Yuzaki is a teenage genius with a singular focus on passing his college entrance exams, until he's saved from a traffic accident by a strange, striking girl. In the aftermath, he impulsively proposes to her on the spot — and she says yes, on the condition that he'll fall in love with her later. That girl, Tsukasa, becomes his wife, and Fly Me to the Moon follows the two of them building an actual relationship after skipping straight to marriage. Written by Kenjiro Hata, it's been serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday since 2018 and remains ongoing.

What it does well

The structural gimmick here — marriage first, falling in love second — could easily have been a one-chapter joke, but Hata builds an entire ongoing series out of it because it genuinely changes the shape of the romance. Instead of the usual will-they-won't-they tension, the story gets to focus on smaller, more intimate getting-to-know-you moments between two people who are already committed to each other, which gives it a warmth that a lot of pre-relationship rom-coms don't have room for.

Tsukasa herself comes with a slowly unspooling mystery — there's clearly more to her than Nasa initially realizes — and that thread gives the otherwise low-stakes domestic comedy a light hook pulling readers forward. Hata's comedic instincts, honed on his earlier work, keep the day-to-day chapters genuinely funny, and with well over 300 chapters now published, there's an enormous amount of this central relationship to spend time with if it clicks for you.

Where it falls short

That central mystery moves at a genuinely slow pace, and readers hoping for answers to arrive quickly will need patience. As with any long-running episodic series, the middle stretches can start to feel repetitive, leaning on similar comedic beats between the bigger relationship developments. And the 2025 hiatus is a reminder that, as an ongoing series, its pace isn't guaranteed to stay consistent.

Verdict

Fly Me to the Moon takes a gimmicky premise and turns it into a genuinely warm, long-running romantic comedy. If you want a rom-com built on two people already choosing each other, it's a great one to sink into.