Gals! 2
Posted: May 31, 2007 Filed under: Gals! Leave a comment »I’ve got to read the rest of these by Saturday night. Let’s see how that works out for me. I hated the first volume so much that I wanted to see if perhaps marathoning the series would help out any.
My main problem is the main character, who I find to be pretty annoying. She just rubs me the wrong way, as I am not the free spirit that she is and find something objectionable about her “live life for the moment and don’t plan for the future” philosophy, and also the annoying battles she gets into about the ownership of Shibuya. These are personal beefs though, and that’s just the way the story works. Nothing wrong with that.
I did start to like some of the other characters this time around, though. Miyu and Aya both get their quiet character moments and chapters dealing with their flaws, and we get to meet Ran’s sister and her boyfriend, both of which are cute characters. The story is setting up a romance for the boy named “Number Two” and Ran, which may turn out to be interesting later on. A slowly developing romance is something I can admire the series for, at least.
The stories themselves are also kind of cute, my favorite this volume being the one where Ran gets a suntan to blend in more with the kogals and winds up getting burned and losing the tan in a couple days (she also beats people up and solves problems for her friends et al, but that was just the part I liked about it). They’re episodic, which the author says reflects the faddish nature of Gal fashion and I can agree with that kind of philosophy, but I tend not to like chapter-to-chapter episodic series, especially if I’m not won over by the story in the first place.
But onward. I’ve got eight more volumes, let’s see if I don’t warm up at least a little.
