Cheeky Angel 17
Posted: May 13, 2007 Filed under: Cheeky Angel 1 Comment »OH MY GOD! I just realized Anime Central was this weekend! I wanted to go! I’M FORTY MINUTES AWAY FROM THE CONVENTION AND FORGOT TO GO.
To follow up that sadness, I was reading this instead of going to Anime Central. Have we covered how much I hated this series already? No? Well, this series is pretty stupid. It’s just not for me, as I hate kind of silly comedy manga like this, I think. I also realized this volume that this series would’ve worked much better as an anime (which it was made into, Tenshi no Konamiki), as a lot of the gags are sight gags that just don’t work in manga.
There was a really clever sequence at the end of one chapter where everything for three pages was without dialogue while Genzo and Megumi tried to fix something they broke. It was amazing, and I really wish the entire series was like that, because it would be much better.
The only things that happen in this volume are that the samurai decides he likes Miki, and Miki’s old fiancee comes back to terrorize her. I give the series lots of credit for finally moving forward in character relationships with Miki and the samurai.
I think my other problem is that this series is more episodic where I think it’s an actual advancing plot… I have trouble seeing it as episodic for some reason, and it’s probably much better when viewed as a comedy episode kinda thing.
But yes. Bad once again. The end is coming up soon, and it’d better be good.
I agree that the other shoe needs to drop in this series. I like the premise, but it seems to be awfully drawn out. At this moment I don’t really care how it ends, as long as it ends. I think it’s probably going to end with Megumi accepting that she’s female & dating Genzou, but I think that’s sort of an easy out. I never really saw any chemistry between the two of them. I actually for a while thought that it might go the yuri angle, but then Miki & the sword-guy started getting into that “eventually we’ll get together, but for now we’re dancing around it” plotline.