Oyayubihime Infinity 2
June 12, 2008
Hmm. It’s driving me crazy that the main character maintains the lie that she has a “soul mate” despite the fact she seems to be helping Tsubame search desperately for his. She starts to fall a little bit in love with him here, and she still refuses to let their thumbs touch again to see what can be seen. It drove me crazy, but things started to work themselves out by the end of the volume.
I kind of liked the main character as a somewhat standoffish, keeps-to-herself type, but she seems to fall in pretty easy with Tsubame and the writing club after they pursue her. I have to admit I appreciate any sort of healthy relationship between females, but I feel like the club president isn’t quite fleshed out well enough for me to really get behind Kanoko’s use of time there as opposed to helping her sister maintain her persona as an actress. I think the relationship she shares with her sister is pretty awesome (if a bit unhealthy), and I was sad to see it start to crack in this volume.
Romances are bloomin’ all over the place here, which is what I like to see. A little between Kanoko and Tsubame, though nothing that either would admit to yet. Maya gets a match, Tsubame’s former fling is suspected of a match, and there’s even a crazy stalker. The significance of what hand the birthmark is on is revealed. All of this was pretty good, but I didn’t quite have it sorted out in my head until the end of the volume.
One thing is that I have trouble keeping side characters straight. They all look the same, and the members of the club are sort of interchangeable. It’s sometimes important and sometimes not when a side character does something, and I wish that they were either combined into a few people or one of the characters we see more often stepped into their roles. It’s kinda messy the way it is now.
I like where things are going, but it’s still seems like it’s got a ways to go if it’s going to really crank on the drama. It’s definitely on the right track as of the end of volume 2, though.
June 12, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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