Oh My Goddess 11
Posted: May 11, 2009 Filed under: Oh My Goddess! 5 Comments »Lucky! I had been puzzling over volume 31 and why it was that Peorth was so insistent on getting Keiichi to tell Belldandy he loves her before she had to go back to Yggdrasil. I forgot her introduction, which was in this volume. Keiichi accidentally called her up on the Goddess Hot Line for a wish, and after seeing the sad, shy state Keiichi was in, Peorth decided her mission was to get Keiichi to admit his feelings since he didn’t have a true wish for her to grant.
And… yeah. 20 volumes later, THE MAIN CHARACTER HAS STILL NOT ADMITTED HIS FEELINGS FOR THE LOVE INTEREST. In a way, I was pleased that Peorth’s mystery was solved. On the other hand, it made me hate myself for liking this series so much.
And yeah, I still like it. I like Peorth a lot, actually, even though her introduction here isn’t all that special. I was kind of sad to re-read it after all this time, because it’s full of pretty generic laughs (Urd, Skuld, and Peorth have a contest to see who’s the most helpful Goddess, Peorth tries to grant Keiichi’s desires by taking baths with him and sleeping with him, that sort of thing). She gets a better role later, when she’s sort of a sly friend. I’m also pretty glad they kept her random French phrases for this edition, I know that was a point of contention, and I was worried it would be lost in favor of authenticity.
The end of the story about Urd splitting into good and evil sides is in this volume, too. I like that story a lot, but it’s not quite as good as the Lord of Terror storyline from earlier. It’s just not as epic. Urd uses some powerful magic, but it’s just a battle with herself, nobody seriously tries to intervene and nobody else is really in any danger.
This was sort of a mediocre volume, but Peorth’s introduction makes it pretty notable.
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-And… yeah. 20 volumes later, THE MAIN CHARACTER HAS STILL NOT ADMITTED HIS FEELINGS FOR THE LOVE INTEREST. -
When I reached 31 I was confused. I hadn’t realized they hadn’t said it because it’s so obvious and they’re so comfortable with each other :)
“I’d risk destroying reality to save you because I trust and care for you so much” (from the Mystery Child story) should count as an ‘I love you’ in my book.
Yeah, I didn’t really understand that was the problem in 31. I thought Keiichi was freaking out because Peorth was being weird and giving him all that attention and basically making him say it on command, not because he had never said it, ever.
Heck, there are scenes in the very early volumes where I thought the two said it to one another, like that story about the rock bringing lovers closer together or whatever in volume 8.
And Keiichi is really… insanely brave by this point. As shown when he hosted the angel (and commented it’s because he’s loved by so many goddesses no less).
Maybe his editor was getting on him for the lack of cliche ‘will they…?’ bits.
Yeah, maybe there was some sort of cliche quota he just hadn’t been meeting at that point.
Actually, as silly as that sounds, it’s entirely possible. It’s kind of scary how that stuff works sometimes.