Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: VIZ Media (Shojo Beat)
Volumes: 13+
Goodreads Synopsis:
Mafuyu is looking
forward to a relaxing day at the beach after all the recent commotion at
school. But with Takaomi tagging along she should have known better
than to expect calm and quiet. He plays rescuer to a couple getting
harassed by delinquents and of course makes everything worse. Now Mafuyu
has to save her vacation and her teacher!
Review:
I am enjoying this series, and am a
little frustrated that I am so far behind because I never get to the
bookstore and they never seem to have the volumes or series that I
want. Um, anyway... This volume was good.
It starts off pretty much where the
last one ended, with Mafuyu (the main character) and Saeki (her
teacher) at the beach, hanging out or whatever. Mafuyu is helping
Saeki out on something, and they end up, rather hilariously, trying
to pretend to be a couple. Then they save these two people from some
gang members, and going with those two people, who turn out to be
servants at this mansion place, and then helping out the rich girl
who lives there (who forms a kinship with Saeki, because of their
similar personalities) and her servants for a couple of chapters. It
was all fun and cute, and very funny, and it's been too long since I
read it. (Augh, I've been putting off a couple of my manga reviews
for far too long, and now the books are a little too blurry in my
mind and my excitement for them has lessened way too much.)
Then there is a chapter about
Okegawa (the bancho), who saves some flowers and starts being
followed by flowers and wants a close friend, and he hangs out with
Mafuyu and Hayasaka. Mafuyu finds out that her fellow masochistic
friend was the mysterious person in town in the previous volume (I
believe?), while Hayasaka and Okegawa stay oblivious to the fact that
he was looking for her. And Mafuyu and Okegawa are still oblivious to
the fact that they have been sending letters to each other; which I
am looking forward to them finding/am hoping they find out soon.
In the (kind of) last chapter,
Mafuyu and Hayasaka get, um, warning letters from, I believe, the
student council, and one of their members (or someone from that club
they are unknowingly competing against?) starts following them, in a
rather ninja like style. Mafuyu, and even Saeki, become aware of it
and are suspicious, but Hayasaka is oblivious.
And then there are, maybe, twenty
pages of strip-comics, mostly featuring the gang from Mafuyu's old
school and the gang they competed against (I think?). This wasn't as
funny as I was hoping, since I didn't know (or remember?) some of the
characters, but once I got used to them, it was. And I liked seeing
her second and third from her old gang, as they are so much fun to
watch.
This was a good volume (this is a
good series), and I want to read the next one. They're usually really
funny and I'm enjoying reading about the characters, and hoping that
they'll stick in my head better soon (since sometimes after I read
a volume, the characters and what happened, is just gone from my
memory, and I have to do a somewhat thorough skim of the book in
order to remember). I'm really hoping to get the next one soon. But,
we'll see.
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