Wallflower Vol 15
May. 23rd, 2008 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I think Tomoko Hayakawa was actually trying to work in some serious character development a few times there. Talk about disconcerting. Sunako making friends is actually interesting. Event though the manga doesn’t make a big deal over how much she’s changed since meeting the boys, she definitely has. She actually has normal friend beyond Noi-chan. Fangirls, even. I have to wonder, though, what was up with the end of the first chapter. You have Sunako go through all that growth and decide to cut her hair…and the next chapter it was like nothing….SUNAKO CUT HER HAIR! IT BROKE MY BRAIN IN A WHOLE NEW WAY!!!! I HAVE NOT RECOVERED YET!!! Seriously, she looked awesome, but Sunako and short hair is just a major cognitive dissonance. Also, it made her look like Ranmaru and Takenaga’s love child, and this isn’t the kind of manga where that kind of thing happens. Of course, it went back to normal after.
The last chapter, with Sunako going to a reunion of her Junior High classmates and being shunned by them, and meeting the boy who called her ugly were interesting. On the one hand, it, like the first chapter, showed how far she’d come, but her classmates’ reactions were just odd. Not to mention the boys being so calm when the boy called her ugly again. Usually, that makes you dead to them. Then again, he already was, so I suppose they were just waiting for her reaction. On the other hand, the chapter was also chock full of the entire cast being shippers and talking about how much Kyohei is in love with Sunako and his denying it and/or keeping quiet. And…uhm…even if I dislike a pairing (though if I dislike a pairing-or any important relationship-I usually just can’t be bothered to continue with it…) I tend to love those scenes. Like many things in manga, I blame that on Samurai Deeper Kyo. Then, of course, there’s Kyohei and Noi-chan animosity, which I always love because, in any other shoujo, either they’d be the main pairing, or she’d be the evil popular girl chasing after Kyohei and harassing Sunako, instead of Sunako’s number one fangirl. (And a Kyohei/Sunako shipper…)
The chapter with Yuki’s little brother and sister was…cute? I adore Yuki and think he’s an absolute doll, but he simply isn’t as interesting as the other characters. I did very much like Noi-chan deciding to take Ranmaru’s princess to a host club to “educate” her about what Ranmaru’s really like, only to be trailed by a terrified Takenaga, worried about his Noi-chan in such a place…and then Ranmaru running after them to save Takenaga once Takenaga got stuck working there. Ah, Ranmaru, one day, it shall hit you like a ton of bricks, and everyone else will cackle over your downfall. And then, of course, Takenaga/Noi-chan is always darling. They may not be destined to one day take over the world like Kyohei and Sunako, but they, too, are love.
The last chapter, with Sunako going to a reunion of her Junior High classmates and being shunned by them, and meeting the boy who called her ugly were interesting. On the one hand, it, like the first chapter, showed how far she’d come, but her classmates’ reactions were just odd. Not to mention the boys being so calm when the boy called her ugly again. Usually, that makes you dead to them. Then again, he already was, so I suppose they were just waiting for her reaction. On the other hand, the chapter was also chock full of the entire cast being shippers and talking about how much Kyohei is in love with Sunako and his denying it and/or keeping quiet. And…uhm…even if I dislike a pairing (though if I dislike a pairing-or any important relationship-I usually just can’t be bothered to continue with it…) I tend to love those scenes. Like many things in manga, I blame that on Samurai Deeper Kyo. Then, of course, there’s Kyohei and Noi-chan animosity, which I always love because, in any other shoujo, either they’d be the main pairing, or she’d be the evil popular girl chasing after Kyohei and harassing Sunako, instead of Sunako’s number one fangirl. (And a Kyohei/Sunako shipper…)
The chapter with Yuki’s little brother and sister was…cute? I adore Yuki and think he’s an absolute doll, but he simply isn’t as interesting as the other characters. I did very much like Noi-chan deciding to take Ranmaru’s princess to a host club to “educate” her about what Ranmaru’s really like, only to be trailed by a terrified Takenaga, worried about his Noi-chan in such a place…and then Ranmaru running after them to save Takenaga once Takenaga got stuck working there. Ah, Ranmaru, one day, it shall hit you like a ton of bricks, and everyone else will cackle over your downfall. And then, of course, Takenaga/Noi-chan is always darling. They may not be destined to one day take over the world like Kyohei and Sunako, but they, too, are love.