Sgt. Frog 11
May 11, 2009
Volume 10 actually had a really awesome, epic story going that spilled over into this volume. I kind of cheated and read the conclusion to that chapter right after I finished 10, then put the book back on the shelf to languish for a year (!!!).
I like this series for the same reason I like Oh My Goddess, which I also read today. They’re both comfortable reads. I know exactly what’s going to happen every time I sit down with a volume of either series. In Sgt. Frog’s case, I know that Earth will never be invaded, Natsumi will get mad at Keroro for something, Gundam models will come up, et cetera. I’m not at all interested in the plot development, I just like watching the characters do what they do. It’s funny enough that reading the occasional volume is quite a pleasure.
But… yeah. Nothing has, or ever will, change about this story. The epic storyline last volume was pretty awesome because it was so unlike anything this series would ever do. This volume settles back into the same pattern as the others. There’s a chapter where Keroro runs away after Natsumi and he get in a fight, and they make up in kind of a sweet way by the end of the chapter. One story features two Keronian elementary students showing up and causing problems at the invasion base. There’s a chapter about Momoka’s crush on Fuyuki. Pretty much just more of the same stuff. They’re all fine stories, and if you’re still reading the series at this point, you’ll really enjoy them. None of them really disappointed me.
After not having read the series for so long, one of the things I had forgotten about is Keroro’s delightfully idiosyncratic speech patterns. Just his unusual vocabulary would be enough to make me laugh (at one point, when getting dissed by Dororo, he says “Unkind! You make me cry!”), but sometimes his turn of phrase is also pretty funny.
For as much as I like this series, it takes a lot to convince me to read it. Much to my shame, I didn’t realize it had been a year since the last time I read this, and I only picked this volume up because I needed room on the shelf it was on. I’ll probably read 12 while I’m at it, but I’m sure two volumes will be a little too much for me to handle at once.
May 11, 2009 at 6:29 am
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