manga: Wild Ones Vol 6

[meganbmoore]

So, in the middle of a “I shall expire on the spot if Jin is not Sachie’s father!” spell, Yukie showed up and it was “OMG WHAT NO! NO MOM FAKING DEATH NO BAD!” And then common sense kicked in just before they revealed that it was her ghost. The whole thing, of course, made “I shall expire on the spot if Jin is not Sachie’s father!” ten times worse. Of course, should that be the case, there will no doubt be a mass explosion from the cast, for various reasons.

Aside from that chapter, though, this volume was bit slow. I’m not really interested in Azuma’s third-wheel status, and that and his angsting over it was the main focus of the middle of the volume. I’m reading for Sachie and Rakuto and totally inaccurate yakuza and getting all the bodyguard/princess kinks without having to put up with overwrought melodrama. I was initially worried that Chigusa would wind up as another suitor (and her teacher, at that!) but the series thankfully doesn’t seem to be going that direction. I find it a bit hard to believe that he could pass as close to Sachie’s age when they were younger when he’s eight years older than she is, but kind of like how the entire student body seems to see him as a cute little teddy bear to be loved and protected and cuddled. Though I think I’d like it more if they were like that even after seeing his “dark” side.

And since the manga wrapped up in Japan with volume 10, that means we’re halfway there. Whee! I gave the series 7-8 volumes before it started running out of steam, so that’s about right, given that it seems to be headed for Angst and Revelations before long.

Comments

[octopedingenue]

Yukiemama is NOT ALLOWED to haunt Jin and me with bittersweet star-crossed romance from beyond the grave if Jin is not Sachie's father!!! Jin sure doesn't act like it ever got anywhere physical but maybe he was so happy/heartbroken he blocked it from his mind. Or he was drunk. Anyway, MUST HAPPEN. I wouldn't even care about Sachie's father's identity ever showing up in the series if the manga weren't throwing Jin's dorkangst at us all the time.

Chigusa reminded me of Hunny-sempai from Ouran.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I figure it was that one time that he is not allowed to think about because one must not think of Yukie-san that way and it's TOTAL COINCIDENCE that it was close to a year before Sachie was probably born and that Yukie-san disappeared RIGHT AFTER it happened.

[octopedingenue]

Clearly the sexing was what DROVE HER AWAY TO HER DEATH, WOE.