Boys Be… 9
January 26, 2008
As I mentioned before, my apartment is not at all a nice place to spend the winter, and with the temperatures hanging right around zero all week, it was too cold in my bedroom to sit at the computer. I sat by the heater in the kitchen and read instead, so I’ve got over 20 volumes of manga to write about.
I’m trying to clear out my backlog of Boys Be, which is a bit of a chore since I’ve still got six to go and I don’t particularly like this series. This volume read entirely as boys being shy around girls, which is most of the stories in the series, but usually there’s one story to break things up where there’s a bold boy. Actually, there was one story where the boy was only sorta shy, just mostly confused about how the girl was acting, so I guess that counts.
The best story in the volume was the “Special Report” at the end, which was about a boy being invited over to play mahjong with three college girls. He’s the worst mahjong player ever, so in order to convince him to keep playing after he keeps losing, the girls offer to play strip mahjong. Of course, the boy starts winning, then dirty tricks are used to try and get him to strip… et cetera. It wasn’t a great story, but it was my favorite. I kind of hope that this becomes the replacement for the three guys who always talked about what turns them on, because there may be something vaguely funny in future scenarios of this type.
The only other thing which made me laugh was in a story about a boy and girl trying to find a quiet place to have their first kiss. They keep getting interrupted by random people, but the last straw for the girl was when Ultraman interrupted them. She ran off, but luckily Ultraman made it up to the couple by telling the boy the absolute best place to kiss. I think it’s mostly because I love random Ultraman appearances in manga, but I thought it was pretty funny.
January 28, 2008 at 12:01 pm
[...] blah for older readers at Kuriosity, and at Manga Jouhou she reviews Ordinary Crush. Connie reviews vol. 9 of Boys Be…, Demon Ororon: Complete Collection, vol. 6 of Elemental Gelade, vol. 5 of Skip Beat, and vol. 4 of [...]