Honey and Clover 5
Posted: April 28, 2009 Filed under: Honey and Clover 1 Comment »It’s been so long since I read this series that volume 6 has already come out. That’s a real shame, because this probably is one of the best shoujo series I’m reading right now, and I shouldn’t put off reading it.
The second half of this book really got to me. Morita comes back, graduation rolls around again, Takemoto has some inner struggles… all of it was so well-written and so very of the moment that parts brought tears to my eyes. One of them was the annual Christmas party without Morita or Mayama, where Takemoto considers the previous year’s party, and who he thought would be absent from the current party.
A lot of the volume focuses on Takemoto, actually, which is nice considering he’s the main character and is sometimes relegated to the background in favor of Mayama or Yamada. I can sympathize with Yamada and Mayama and their romantic problems, but Takemoto seems to have some of the more troubling issues in the group at the moment, which is why I loved/teared up through a big chunk of the story here.
Morita coming back sort of cancels out a lot of the sadness, though. It’s hard not to laugh at everything having to do with Morita. His re-apparance was absolute GOLD, and I really wish the two-page spread had been reproduced in color. There are a number of really touching, serious moments between him and other characters, and I couldn’t believe some of them had been worked in, but he’s just so goofy it’s hard not to laugh at him. I like all the other characters a lot, but Morita is a big part of what makes this series fun.
Mayama and Yamada do get a little story time, Mayama in the form of his continued vigil and Yamada… well, she gets to put herself in Mayama’s shoes, and doesn’t really like it. Their part of the story is the least interesting at the moment, honestly, only because so little has changed since the beginning of the series. They’ve both realized some things about themselves, but they are also both going around in circles. Things could change soon though, and I admit I am interested in that.
[...] Girl on vols. 1 and 2 of High School Debut (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions) Connie on vol. 5 of Honey and Clover (Slightly Biased Manga) Connie on vol. 8 of Human Club (Slightly Biased Manga) Deb Aoki on vol. 1 [...]