Pastel 8
Posted: January 8, 2008 Filed under: Pastel 2 Comments »Somehow, a different girl who was previously thought untouchable confesses her undying love for Mugi. While Mugi isn’t the geeky loser that appears in other harem comedies, he does attract lots of women.
I was much less enamored with this volume than the past few. It’s slipped back into fanservice here, and is much less touching than the previous few volumes. Yuu and Mugi get almost no time to themselves, and what little movement their relationship gets is forced on them by secondary characters. It’s once again become everything I hate.
Tsukasa’s return may have a lot to do with this. She came back looking like she’d inexplicably aged about five years. She’s the one that tries to get Yuu and Mugi closer. Of course, now that Tsukasa looks about 18, Mugi is allowed to accidentally barge in on her in the shower.
You know what, it wasn’t even Tsukasa that ruined this volume for me. This volume was ruined with the first panel. The first pages ran in color in the magazine, and while they were black and white for the graphic novel, that didn’t stop the intentions of the first panel, which was to be a huge, half page, full color panty shot. The second panel was Yuu yelling at Mugi for looking. What the hell.
I am honestly surprised you’re even reading this. I try to stay far away from shounen harem stuff.
The plot summary on the initial volume made it sound like a story of lost love or something instead of a harem comedy. I was extremely disappointed, but I had picked the series to review on another site, so I kept reviewing the volumes. It actually has a decent plot twist in volume 5 or 6, and most of the volumes since then have focused almost completely on the two main characters and their relationship. Well, with the exception of this one, which turned it back into the harem series.