Go Go Heaven 3
Posted: December 4, 2007 Filed under: Go Go Heaven Leave a comment »I meant to talk about Astro Boy today as well… but I wound up listening in disbelief, again and again, to a 20-minute drum solo on Led Zeppelin’s “How the West Was Won.” Apparently it is also on their second album, which I do not own. How unfortunate.
Anyway. That has nothing to do with Go Go Heaven, but I needed something to talk about. This manga still has a lot of flaws, but I think it’s slowly getting better about them. I actually wound up enjoying this volume quite a bit despite some really huge story flaws.
The best story in the volume was the first. Things pick up with Prince being the King of Hell, and he goes to heaven to seek God’s approval for his choice of bride. God disapproves, and Prince decides he’ll do it anyway, and gives Shirayuki an engagement ring. She can’t take it off, does anyway, then turns into a demoness of some sort. There’s a battle between she and Prince which ends in a nice romantic scene. There’s plenty of really weird and embarrassing stuff going on that I wouldn’t have written in myself (the school is turned into a levitating battleground, for one), but it’s still a really good story.
The volume is at its best when it focuses on the romance between Shirayuki and Prince, so I’m hoping the tone will shift to more of that. I could go for several more volumes like that actually, if the storytelling gets a lot better in the process.
