B.O.D.Y. 4
Posted: February 27, 2009 Filed under: B.O.D.Y. 3 Comments »This volume was a little better, but I still felt like shaking the heroine hard many times. Ryu picks up a creepy stalker at one point. I’m not sure what is up with this series and these mildly sinister scenarios. I know they won’t go THAT badly, but they create quite a sense of foreboding.
Anyway, the stalker turns out to be a royal jerk, and he starts dating Ryoko’s friend. Ryoko tries to warn her about the boy, and then she goes out with him anyway. Ryoko then warns her several more times, but without explaining why she was suspicious. Things go badly for her, but it’s very clear at the end of the volume that the stalker is a huge jerk and that the friend is kind of a jerk for not paying more attention to Ryoko, who is clearly trying to help. It’s a classic “bros before hos”-type situation, except with girls.
This may be the same friend that suggests to Ryoko that Ryu might be “blue balling” it. This is not something I would ever expect to come out of any character’s mouth in a shoujo series with little more than hand holding. I did a double-take when I saw it. Awesome use of slang.
And on a final note, this volume has one of the most unintentionally hilarious letters pages I’ve ever seen in a manga, ever. This is mostly because the series is called B.O.D.Y., so seeing that every time the title is brought up helps make the boring letters far more entertaining. I will post a photo of it this weekend, because it is definitely worth sharing.
I’m glad the series recovered after that last volume. It’s fun shoujo, and I think if it gets much better, it has the potentially to be very, very addictive. Like Hot Gimmick addictive.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
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i’m done collecting this series. i really don’t care about her friend and i’m not anymore invested in the characters than at the begining…the artwork is really poor too.
Yeah, the situation with her friend really put me off, because it’s literally like watching a train wreck. It’s at least a little more realistic than the running around with the rich people and putting a stop to the host club from last volume, though. I don’t really blame you for dropping it, but I’m kind of hooked by the trash factor at this point.