Ikebukuro West Gate Park 3
Posted: December 29, 2008 Filed under: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Leave a comment »This is still sticking with the status quo of being fairly entertaining without having terribly engrossing characters. Pure action/mystery, and I kind of like it. The mysteries are actually pretty engrossing just for having so many bizarre and unpredictable elements. They’re not… fantastic, but they are still pretty fun.
The mystery from last volume wraps up fairly early on. Unfortunately, I didn’t get quite as much from the Iranian boyfriend of the female client as I liked. He was pretty funny. The sting at the end of the episode goes pretty much how you imagine, with a bonus imaginary sting running in the background.
The bulk of the volume is concerned with helping out a girl with a stalker problem. This girl actually lives in a room that is being broadcast 24/7 on the internet. She doesn’t do anything particularly naughty, she just… hangs out, and she’s very popular because men will send her outfits and she’ll try them on in front of the camera. One man starts stalking her, and Makoto’s job is to try and discourage him. He does okay, but the girl does not, unfortunately.
Makoto is put up to the job by an old friend who has undergone a sex change since the last time Makoto met him. This character has the privilege of delivering the line “titties are for holding, not for having.” It made me laugh a lot harder than it should have.
The stalker mystery wraps up in this volume, and we get one chapter into the next case, which may involve… yakuza? Tracking down a gang leader’s daughter who has disappeared into thin air.
