Walkin’ Butterfly 3
Posted: June 23, 2008 Filed under: Walkin' Butterfly Leave a comment »Wow, this series got way better in this volume. It does a really good job of setting a goal for the main character and actually making her work hard for it instead of being innately talented. She starts to get a little work here, but it’s after throwing herself against a wall for three volumes and basically being told by absolutely everybody at the beginning of this volume that she would never, ever be a fashion model. She has her bad moods (she often thinks she can’t do it either), but things keep moving, and finally they’re moving forward.
You may have also gathered from that paragraph, but a lot of things about the heroine’s life suck. Because she wants to keep her days open in case she gets a modeling job, she works at a gas station at night. She seems to get rejected by people a lot, which affects her in various ways. She weirded out her friends at the beginning of the series, and the one friend she does have she doesn’t get to see very often and also has a crush on. The end of the volume also just dumps on her after things go pretty well most of the time.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just some sort of masochist. This volume is quite good because it presents the possibility of letting the heroine succeed in at least some capacity after denying her any sort of victory for two volumes. This just seems more realistic to me, and the difficulties presented to her make her story interesting and this volume that much better because she is finally given a reward. It’s a great series, and anyone looking for a good josei series would do well to check it out. I wasn’t totally convinced after two volumes, but this volume put it towards the top for me.
