Gals! 1
March 22, 2005
I’ll admit I bought this series for the shallow reason of artwork, and I’ve paid for it by having to sit through the plot. There are some good things about it… it is nice that Ran isn’t a stereotypical easy kogal, but she shoves it in your face so often that the meaning behind being a “good” kogal is lost. Ran shoves a lot of things in your face, come to think of it. I half like her, half hate her at this point. The chapters were a series of one-shots, and the formula was that “big trouble is stirred up in Shibuya/School/Ran’s life and Ran sets things right in the way that only a righteous kogal can, gives a little speech about it, then something funny happens at the end that usually relates back to the story intro.” And otherwise it contains nothing. It’s ten volumes long I think, so surely plot occurs somewhere. I’ll probably buy up to volume three, and if it doesn’t get some substance by then, I fear I’ll be forced to burn my copies and other volumes that may have come in contact with them, so that the incredibly shallow, repetitive plot does not contaminate.
Hell, it’s Gals!, and I wasn’t expecting particularly great things, to tell you the honest truth… just some eye candy. The thing that does make me mad are the people who bitch about the slang. I don’t know if they were expecting some sort of intelligent diatribe or what, but Gals! would blow without the slang. I hate slang, and all except for a couple instances, I thought it was used well. In those couple instances, it was just that whatever word didn’t fit, or was just too comical (the most notable instance of the latter being “dizam!”). And to say that there was only a couple places where the slang didn’t fit is quite an accomplishment, because it’s plastered all over. One point for CMX, because that’s the best use of it I’ve ever seen. Now they’re only in the hole 999,999 more points for Tenjho Tenge.
November 6, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Gals is actually fairly decent. The budding romance (I’ve only read 1 volume. *tear*) between Miyu and Ran’s brother whose name eludes me at this moment is a wee bit uncomfortable, but the series is still hilarious. ^^
November 21, 2007 at 3:38 am
Meh, I didn’t wind up liking it that much. I was disappointed about Ran’s choice of boyfriend, though I admired the two stuck together ’til the end. I did like the relationship between her younger sister and her boyfriend, though. Actually, there was lots of cute stuff I liked in this series, but I think it just wasn’t my thing.