Slightly Biased Manga

I think I’m sort of falling out of love with this series. It’s still very funny, but… after reading all that Ouran and learning to love that, I just miss not having romance in this series. If only the two main characters were getting together more quickly! Of course, it took me, like, 5 or 6 volumes to get into Ouran, so maybe the best is yet to come. I hope so, because I was pretty sad about not enjoying this as much as I should. I followed this up with the Tokyopop version of Your and My Secret to make myself feel better. That series is also awesome, but I won’t post about it now since I… already reviewed it four years ago.

Actually, to be totally honest, a lot of the humor fell flat in this volume, too. There was a silly chapter about the two twin boys falling in love with a pair of twin girls and everyone “helping” set them up on a date. Of course, things go badly when Hana botches her surveilance, and while there’s a priceless panel of the results of everyone’s grooming at the end of the chapter, things just really didn’t amount to much.

I did like the chapter where everyone was helping Hana study and she basically admitted she was just too stupid to go to school with them. Of course she is tempted with treats and there is a strict and comical study regimen she is forced to stick to, and of course her sleep time is cut into, but the main character is the one who helps her most, and Hana seems very appreciative of this in the end, though there isn’t really a nice moment between them like there sometimes is.

To make up for that, we get a chapter where he spites Hana’s lack of interest in him by petitioning the rest of the eager girls in school for a girlfriend. There’s a silly event where he holds a haunted house to take girls through and the rest of the members of the club dress up as horror-type characters, but bear in mind that the president of the hockey club hates ghosts more than anything.

But nothing major to report. I’m hoping Hana sort of starts… reciprocating the presidents feelings, even a little bit, sometime soon, or at least the stories get a bit more interesting, because while it’s still pretty funny, I gotta admit I’m getting a little bored with it.

Also, in case you were wondering, no hockey is played. Hockey may only actually come up like 3 or 4 times in the entire volume. I have to admit, the strict avoidance of hockey is something I really admire about it.