W Juliet 12
Posted: March 5, 2007 Filed under: W Juliet Leave a comment »So we finally get to the cultural festival, which has been building up for several volumes now. But because you know such an important event can’t pass without much meandering, there’s a big plot that takes up the first half of the volume that involves bank robbers with hearts of gold and the buildup of a relationship between Nobuko and Toki. URGH. The fact that I can tolerate these digressions and still suck down five volumes of this series in one day is testament to the fact that I love the characters that much, including a character whose name I didn’t really know until now and a character I don’t really like. Did we really need to know about Nobuko and Toki? Well, I guess it is good to know that Toki will leave Ito alone now.
After Tsugumi shows up to see the play, of course she interferes and Ito and Mako wind up handcuffed together, which affects Mako’s performance in front of the drama critics his dad brought. Somehow, this felt a little artificial too, but it’s good that there was some resistance for the drama critic complication. I think I was constantly rooting for this series to take a darker turn, like for Mako to be found out and have to flee with Ito, or having the critics grade him badly and needing to take some other course of action, or having some complications with Ito’s family… I think I wanted some real drama, but all I got was the stage stuff. Good enough for me, because again, I love this couple. I’ll talk about them in depth in the last volume review.
And Takashi comes in for one last go-around with Mako. Finally his sister slaps him silly though, and we never hear from them again.
