Kashimashi 2
Posted: April 15, 2007 Filed under: Kashimashi Leave a comment »I wound up not liking this volume as much as the first, but that was mostly because the pace slowed way down to the point of stagnation. We’ve got a romantic triangle established between the main character, the girl she had a crush on, and her childhood friend. These characters, while they have several rather touching and endearing adventures, don’t really move forward, and another plot doesn’t surface for them to follow. I was kinda hoping for it, because a chapter-by-chapter episodic series is not what I was hoping for with this title.
There is plenty of character development, and we find out a lot about the past of the main character, and there’s still a lot of touching moments, humor moments which still manage to be funny (I love the goofy teacher), and all the things I liked about the first volume sans the adjustment period, but… I just want something else to happen. I’m not sure how long this series is, or if it is still running in Japan, but I tend not to like episodic stories like this unless they can keep me very interested (ie the Sgt. Frog entry a few down, I waver on that one like crazy). Hopefully more will happen in volume 3.
