Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: Tokyopop
Volumes: 8
Goodreads Synopsis:
And you thought
your family was strange? Miki's world gets turned upside down when her
parents swap spouses with another couple and all decide to live together
under one roof. It only gets weirder when Miki falls in love with her
new stepbrother Like a dysfunctional version of the Brady Bunch,
Marmalade Boy will hook readers with its odd premise and wacky
relationships.
Review:
Ahhhhhhh, I only
have one volume left! How is that possible?! I, like, just started it, and now
I’m done with seven volumes and I only have one left and then what do I do? I
mean, I guess I’ll read those other manga waiting for me… But I will have no
more Marmalade Boy and I am not happy about that.
Le sigh, but
anyway…
I was thinking,
when I started this, that Meiko was only going to talk with Nachan, not that
she was going to get back together with him, but it became apparent within, oh,
two pages, that I was wrong. Although their reunion scene was very sweet and I
really like Meiko and I like that Nachan makes her happy and loves her back, and
I accept their relationship. I think I actually just want more Meiko and Ginta.
Not them together, but their relationships with Nachan (or Miwa, I would have
liked either one) and Arimi. I just want some more of their obvious loving and
cute stuff. There haven’t been as many nice, intense, romantic scenes between
Miki and Yuu. Although there have been a lot of cuddly stuff. Which makes
sense, since this series was in Ribon, which is a magazine targeted to younger
girls.
Anyway, after that:
there’s a guest staying with Miki and Yuu’s family, whose only real point is to
make Yuu wonder about his real dad again. There’s a scene between Meiko and
Miwa, which I liked but made me feel bad for him. Oh, because along with Meiko
and Nachan getting together again, they also got engaged, and Meiko’s parents
aren’t too happy about it yet, but they’ll accept it soon enough, I’m sure.
The rest of the
volume is taken up with some serious drama between Miki and Yuu. Yuu found old
pictures of their parents together in college, when they weren’t told they knew
each other in college, and so Yuu is sure, now, that his father is Jin, Miki’s
dad. Which is obviously terrible because that means that him and Miki are
actually related. So, of course, without telling anyone but Miwa what he’s
found out, he breaks up with her. They are both devastated about it, Meiko is
upset on Miki’s behalf, and Yuu decides that he has to go to a different
university, far away, because he can’t live with Miki any longer if he can’t be
with her. Which is all terrible and sweet at the same time.
At the end of the
volume, Yuu has left for school, as he’s been accepted and they’ve graduated,
and Miki is still trying to get over him. Miki gets a haircut that makes her
look older and more mature, and is determined to start anew, fresh.
I don’t want it to
be over, but I want to find out what happens much too badly to wait. I’m sure
that it’s going to be that they are not actually related and Yuu has been
anguished by this for too long for no reason, and that they are going to get
back together.
Now, I am going to
go read the last one and see what happens.
Sidenote: in the
side panels of the book, there’s a lot of talk from the author. Some of it is
choppy, like the dialogue gets every once in a while, which bothers me, but I
can look past it. The author has been talking a lot about the extra stuff
coming out with Marmalade Boy, though, which just depresses me. All of these
video games and movies and TV shows and plushies and all kinds of goodies, and,
for one, they are probably hard to find now because of how long ago they were
released, but they’re also not released in America. Which just sucks.
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