Your and My Secret 2
Posted: October 6, 2008 Filed under: Your and My Secret 3 Comments »Wow, how long have I been waiting for this? The review for volume one was one of the first reviews I wrote for this site over four years ago. And with all the Ai Morinaga I’ve been getting lately, it felt great to go back to this one.
The jokes at the expense of the genders of the pair continue. Akira still makes a better girl, and Nanako still makes a cuter girl. In this volume, Nanako pretty much admits that she likes being a boy better and isn’t all that interested in switching back, and by the end… well, Akira may feel this way too, but he doesn’t seem ready to admit this to himself yet. He’s still working himself raw trying to make enough money so Nanako’s grandpa can switch them back.
Sadly, grandpa isn’t in this volume. There are some really weird/awesome vacation chapters to make up for it, though. I would hate vacation/beach chapters like this in any other series, but the number of really weird and wrong jokes that can be made at the expense of the characters is only enhanced by putting them in stereotypical settings.
The plot doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, but I’m pretty satisfied with the gags for the time being. I’ve read several series by Morinaga at this point, and I think it’s safe to say I read them because they’re funny and not for their ongoing plots. My Heavenly Hockey Club still doesn’t seem to have much of a plot, and Strawberry-chan never had one, but was still her magnum opus, as far as I’m concerned.
“Nanako pretty much admits that she likes being a “girl” better and isn’t all that interested in switching back, and by the end…”
I wonder if you had meant “boy” instead…
The good news is #3 is kind of around the corner, if one can say that about nov :)
I’m so happy this series hasn’t been canned by TokyoPop *knocks on wood*
I also wanted to remark that I really like reading the reviews on your site and love Morinaga too!
badzphoto: Oh, thanks for that, I fixed it. And I’m glad to hear that the third volume is coming out so soon, November is around the corner enough for me ^_^
Kat: Thanks! It looks like this survived some of the cuts at Tokyopop (at least two of the other series I read aren’t so lucky), so I think we’ll be getting at least as much as is out in Japan right now.