Wallflower Vol 14

[meganbmoore]

This will be brief as I'm headed out very, very shortly.

A good chunk of this book(2 of the four chapters) were devoted to Yuki, one with him worrying his girlfriend was going to dump him for another guy, with Yuki getting tips from Ranmaru, and the other with his fighting with a friend at school.  Since this is Yuki and he's more like a humanoid puppy than anything else and not nearly as sturdily built as the others, the two chapters weren't quite as cracky as they usually are.  Still, since it was Yuki centric, we also got to see the sweeter and supportive side of everyone, including Sunako.  I wouldn't want chapters like this all the time, but it's nice every once in a while.  Plus, poor Yuki always gets shoved into the background, he should get to shine every once in a while.

Then there are the other two chapters.  In one, the boys decide to see if they can make Sunako into a lady by redoing the house to look like the houses in her gothic horror movies, hoping that the environment will make her dress and act more like the ladies in the movies.  Of course, only parts of it work andthen it backfires and then she's accused of kidnapping and then Kyohei is forced to dress like a prince and go erscue her while riding a horse.  In the other, Kyohei and Sunako get caught in a typhoon and end up trapped and lost in the mansion labyrinthine basement, which I swear is bigger than the mansion itself.  Being Kyohei and Sunako, they bond as only they can bond, which includes "accidental" hugs, trying to kill each other, and me sitting there cackling "My OTP! My OTP! It shall rule the universe if it ever stops being allergic to each other!"

Meanwhile, Ranmaru keeps getting attacked by genuine fondness and concern for his princess girl, and clings to the edges of the cliff as he struggles to keep from falling.  I cackle as a await his inevitable fall.

Comments

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

Kyohei having to dress like a prince made me giggle. I love the typhoon chapter. (Hmm...I should hunt it down and reread it.) I have noticed that Sunako is spending less time in her chibi form and having less nosebleeds, so there is hope...

"My OTP! My OTP! It shall rule the universe if it ever stops being allergic to each other!"
Yes, they will take over the world one of these days...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Kyohei the prince was worth the price of admission. In general, Sunako seems to be down to nosebleeds only when Kyohei gets too close, or when they all strip or something. A major improvement.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Hey, wait, this is Perfect Girl Evolution! A friend of mine recommended the anime to me.

Also, it's weird to read about a male Yuki, because The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has a female Yuki.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's becoming so well known as PGE because of the anime that I really should label the posts both ways. It is awesome.

I seem to see more female Yukis than male Yukis, and the males tend to be exceptionally pretty and get forced to dress as girls. This Yuki is very feminine in some ways, but all guy, and because he's little and "feminine" pretty, he gets forced to dress like a girl at times.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Okay, see, when you call it PGE I think of Pacific Gas and Electric, and no one wants to see that anime.