Boys Be… 16
Posted: December 28, 2008 Filed under: Boys Be... Leave a comment »Much like Suppli, I believe this series is on indefinite hiatus. Unlike Suppli, this series probably deserves it. I could have done with about ten volumes of these stories and never read any more, ever. To be fair, I really did enjoy it for those first ten volumes.
These stories pretty much maintain the status quo. I was in a good mood when I read this volume, and it’s been awhile since I read volume 15, so I liked it okay while I was reading it. Even with the good feelings, I still have to say that the stories kind of ran into one another and immediately vanished from my memory when I finished the volume.
Let’s see… my favorite? There was one that was pretty cute about a boy and girl from gender-exclusive schools located right next to on another go to great lengths to not share an umbrella after an encounter on a train. There was another chapter called “Rain Man.” In that story, a girl is hesitant to go out on a date with a boy because he always brings rain wherever he goes. I have to say that a man who is followed around by rain is not the first thing I thought of when I read the title, though.
There was a couple average ones… one about a girl and a boy who share a motorcycle ride that gets them closer, one about a boy who admits his feelings for his radio cohost… et cetera. I don’t really need to go into detail on these types of stories, they’re exactly what you would expect.
One really disturbing one came at the end of the volume when a girl insists that the boy she’s dating lose weight or she’ll break up with him. He does. I’m not really sure I appreciated the message.
Anyway. I’ve got one more volume of this. I’ll probably finish it off tomorrow.
