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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSSpacewalking with You is a manga about two second-year boys at an all-boys high school. Yamato Kobayashi looks like a delinquent, sleeps through class, and can't seem to hold down a part-time job; at his latest one, a used-goods shop called SECOND HOUSE, he keeps making mistakes while his coworkers grumble behind his back. One day a transfer student named Keisuke Uno takes the seat in front of him. Uno is loud and always smiling, loves planets, and carries a battered pocket notebook full of step-by-step rules for everything from riding the bus to what to do after waking up. He calls the notebook his "safety tether," after the cable that keeps an astronaut from getting separated from the shuttle. Once Kobayashi learns why the notebook matters so much to Uno, he decides to try taking notes at his own job. Later the two boys go looking for a club Uno can join, and they end up in a tiny astronomy club with a gloomy president, even though Kobayashi knows almost nothing about space.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does a boy refuse an ice cream because he has to ask his family first?
✓ Answer
Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Kobayashi offers to buy Uno an ice cream from a vending machine to make up for making him run, but Uno says he has to ask his family before he accepts things from people. Then Uno grins at Kobayashi's ice cream bar and admits he doesn't know the way home.
- First half
In what book does a coworker in glasses sum up a teen's mistakes in two numbered points?
✓ Answer
Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Yamada says Kobayashi's trouble comes down to two things. One, he doesn't remember how to do something, tries anyway and fails, and two, he has a hard time asking for help when he's flustered.
- First half
In what book does a boy stand up to two teens mocking a classmate's job notes?
✓ Answer
Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Uno stands up behind Saku and the spiky-haired boy and tells them it's not right, insisting the notebook is very important to Kobayashi. He asks them to give it back, and Saku sneers, "What are you, my mother?!"
- Second half
In what book does a boy point to a tiny bright dot at dusk and identify it as Venus?
✓ Answer
Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Heading home after the club tour, Uno stops to stare at a bright point above the power lines and points it out as Venus. Kobayashi is amazed and says, "You were looking at a planet..."
- Second half
In what book could a club with one third-year left survive another year if two new members join?
✓ Answer
Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Inoue-sensei explains that the astronomy club is about to be dissolved because only one third-year is left, and the school has let it continue out of sympathy for him. One new member isn't enough, but if both Uno and Kobayashi join, it might survive another year.
- Near the end
In what book does a new member ask the club president if he's "the thought police"?
✓ Answer
Spacewalking with You, Vol. 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Mikawa keeps pressing Kobayashi about whether he has any interest in astronomy and what his reason for joining was. Kobayashi snaps, "What are you, the thought police?" and Mikawa just tells him to answer the question.
