W Juliet 10
Posted: March 5, 2007 Filed under: W Juliet Leave a comment »There’s an intolerably stupid story at the end of this volume where Ito gets kidnapped by Toki, Tsugumi, and Sakamoto simultaneously, then gets saved by Mako. Ugh.
The first half of the volume is focused on a kind of mediocre training camp arc which introduces a new character named Jotaro, notable only for his name similarity to Jotaro Kujo. He was someone from Ito’s past who shows up as sort of a love interest, and it doesn’t create friction between her and Mako… it doesn’t do much of anything… it was kind of sweet, but mostly boring. The notable part of the training camp story was when the big-name director had a contest at the end where the loser student from each school had to read a private wish out loud that they were tricked into privately writing right before. One loser was clear, because he needed to have something aired out. The loser from their school was between Ito and Yoshiro. Of course Ito wrote down that she wants to live with Mako, and Yoshiro wrote that he loves Misaki. That part of the story was awesome.
The middle of the volume sets up a girlfriend for Ryuya named Chris, who’s American. Again, I liked both Chris and Ryuya (they’re my favorite secondary characters, actually), but stories like these were kind of a weakness of the latter half of the series, because there were SO MANY of them it felt like the series could’ve ended several volumes sooner if we didn’t have to hear from all the secondary characters.
Chris is also an American character that shames you a bit until you realize that the only reason you know about Dogeza is because you read about it in Eyeshield 21. Or maybe that’s just me.
