Walkin’ Butterfly 2
Posted: February 1, 2008 Filed under: Walkin' Butterfly Leave a comment »First off, I love that the main character has an incredibly hard road ahead of her. No one seems to be giving her a break as far as modeling goes, and every audition she goes to she either is turned down politely or fails spectacularly. Even when she does get a job, she doesn’t know how to model. This insane sense of failure is something that a lot of my other comics lack.
As much as she fails and gives up during all these trials, she does always find some reason to keep going. These reasons vary from wanting to impress a guy to not knowing what to do with her life to whatever, but one of the best things she says is that if she tries out 100 times, she has to get at least one job, because there’s no way she wouldn’t have more than a 1% chance. I kind of liked that logic, hokey as it may seem out of context.
The designer Michiko feels she’s up against, Mihara, gets a lot of focus as well. He and Michiko don’t really cross paths, but the story illustrates what kind of guy Mihara is, how much he loves what he’s doing, and exactly what he has in store for his company down the line. While he may seem successful to Michiko, it appears he’s still fairly small potatoes in the fashion world.
So yeah, this is a great story. It’s not up with the “gotta reads” and my favorites yet, but it does have a lot of promise.
