Captive Hearts 1
Posted: April 17, 2009 Filed under: Captive Hearts 1 Comment »Well, I thought I’d pick up volume one of this series since I’ve been reading along all this time. I don’t really like this series, so it wasn’t so much because it was good. More like it was because I saw it cheap, and I wanted to see if it filled in some stuff for me.
Mostly I was curious to see how the child slavery stuff fit in. That came up in volume two, but hasn’t really been mentioned since. It didn’t really fit the mood of the series, but I thought maybe Shizuka had been rescued from child slavers before coming to Japan. That… er, was not the case. Maybe I missed the brief part where that was explained in volume 2. But there was no mention of that stuff in this volume. Apparently that was just a random thing that happened and wasn’t referenced before or after. That dropped my opinion a few more notches.
The main problems with this series is that it’s really cheesy, random, the characters are shallow, and the plot is all over the place. I like the idea of Megumi being cursed to be Shizuka’s servant, but the way they are suddenly mutually attracted to one another in this volume was kind of forced. Their relationship was distanced in the second volume, but that seems more as a result of something Megumi said at the end of this volume. I think it works much better as a sort of awkward attraction than the sudden mutual passion they both seem to be experiencing.
And the manservant fit joke was just repeated over and over and over again. As much as I like it, it just wasn’t funny anymore.Aside from that, it’s mostly just the characters freaking out around each other as they get Shizuka accustomed to Japan, school, and living around Megumi. I… just don’t like it.
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