Tramps Like Us 13
Posted: November 29, 2008 Filed under: Tramps Like Us 1 Comment »This is the only volume of the series that doesn’t have both Momo and Sumire on the cover, just Sumire. It’s significant because… well, it’s just Sumire in this volume.
Hasumi is in and out in his way, but he does something extremely out-of-character that ruins him for me at the beginning of the volume. I understand that he’s distraught, but… how insulting. His story is wrapped up in this volume and the next, but I was disappointed with the way he was handled. His feelings, which were fairly genuine, seemed totally disregarded in favor of having the story wrap up nicely. Of course, he does get a really nice chapter next volume that takes the hurt away a little, but I was still a little sad about it.
I don’t think I mentioned her before ever, but Sumire’s friend Yuri is absolutely essential to the story. She has a few chapters to herself where Sumire helps her, but for the most part she has been Sumire’s friend since childhood and listens to all her complicated stories and offers good advice without question. She is a real person, and yet another reason why this series is quite good. I came to appreicate her even more after her final chapter next volume, too.
The telephone dates in this volume are absolutely to die for. The imagination involved is just… magical, in its way.
The cliffhanger at the end of this volume is of the exact same nature as the one from last volume, which prompted me to finish off the series in one go. I needed to see. Two pages before the end, we do get one of the happiest scenes in the series, though,
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