Go Go Heaven 6

Wow! I can’t believe I had this lying around! I didn’t realize I had another volume of this. This series isn’t very good, but I enjoy it a lot despite its messy nature. This volume was actually a vast improvement over everything else that has come before.

Remember how last time I mentioned the trial parts at the end of the volume were actually very good? This entire volume is one continuous plot that deals with Shirayuki being a witch and she and Prince trying to cure her. Prince is an adult most of the way through, and we get a time travel story towards the end of the volume back to Prince’s past, where we get to see him come of age magically and learn how his father died. It was actually a really, really good story, good enough to forgive it its sins from the past volumes. Of course, I love time travel stories, so that could just be my fondness for them speaking.

Shirayuki and Prince’s relationship still has me forgiving some niggling bad things the story does (hop around a lot with a poor sense of time, having too much going on at once, overly-extreme character reactions to a lot of things). Their relationship isn’t actually all that… well, good, but it seems pretty sincere, and a sincere couple seems to mollify me on most things. This series is definitely proof of that. To be fair, it has stopped most of its humor, which is great, because it wasn’t too good at being serious and funny at the same time, and I LOVE the serious story. I love the whole thing about Prince being the king of Hell, too, and it looks like that will finally be coming more and more into play.

The art and page layouts is still pretty chaotic, but it’s definitely getting better and better. I actually kind of like watching this series polish itself up, it’s pretty fascinating. I also like that all the lame side-characters that hung around at the school are pretty much left in the dust in the first chapter. I could actually do without having another school part ever again in this series, and I hate the gag characters that always pop up in those stories, but I think things will eventually go back there. The series is, what, 13 volumes long? I don’t think it’ll be avoiding school the rest of the time.

I’m a little sad the release schedule slowed down. It’s not nearly as bad as From Eroica With Love as far as the CMX schedules go, and it looks like I’ll get a new volume in May or so, which is fine by me. I’m really looking forward to seeing this plot resolved.