Comments on: Happy Mania 1

By: badzphoto

badzphoto — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:57:05 +0000

“But when that person showed up, I kind of wanted him back with Shigeta.”
Me, too. I like her fine at the beginning, once she showed up in Tokyo, I want her to go back where she came.
A lot of things happen in the last vol. The onsen guy is just hilarious, I laughed so much. The last vol is probably my favorite one :)

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:44:30 +0000

Oh, glad you liked it! It’s weird how the characters grow on you so much as the series goes on. I don’t think I liked anyone at all for the first few volumes, including Takahashi, who I kept hoping would just move on and find someone who treated him better. But when that person showed up, I kind of wanted him back with Shigeta. The last volume is still really something, too. I haven’t read back through the series in a long time, but I still remember almost everything that happened in that volume.

By: badzphoto

badzphoto — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:45:46 +0000

“It’s hard to read at first, but pays off pretty well in the end.”
Totally true. The last 5 books are much better than the first 6 I must say. I really like Fuku.
Shigeta does improve – I like her better when she glares and is suspicious at her male co-worker :)
Takahashi is too nice for his own good – at one point, I wondered what happened to his backbone!

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:15:23 +0000

It’s pretty smutty. The sex scenes aren’t explicit or long or anything, but it’s not like Tramps Like Us where they just discuss having sex without much of it going on/going on behind the scenes, Shigeta has sex pretty frequently with random guys that always turn out to be huge jerks. It’s not much like Tramps Like Us at all, actually. Tramps Like Us is actually kind of a nice, slowly-developed love story, where this is sort of messy and manic and about how the characters may be more in love with searching for the perfect guy than finding the guy himself. There is a love interest that goes after Shigeta for the entire length of the series, though.

It’s hard to read at first, but pays off pretty well in the end.

By: badzphoto

badzphoto — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:28:22 +0000

“Guy-to-bed count in this volume: 3, maybe 4 if you count the flashbacks with her old boyfriend.”
Is it really smutty? or more to “Tramps like us”?