I”s 8
Posted: July 7, 2009 Filed under: I"s 1 Comment »Poor I”s. I resolved to read it, then completely forgot about it after I moved forward two volumes. Well, here’s one more volume.
This volume has a hot springs scene, as you might expect from a series like this. It starts out like any good hot springs scene, with Ichitaka’s best friend tricking him into the women’s bath. Then, of course, somehow Ichitaka is trapped in there with Iori and Nami… and then is spotted by the girl he was hitting on at the beach earlier. From there, it turns into one of the more over-the-top hot springs scenes I’ve seen, which is really saying something, since these are supposed to be naughty. Naked sitting and hiding under the water is involved, along with an agonizing conversation between the three girls that dances around Iori’s feelings for Ichitaka. And then it ends, again, as all good hot springs scenes do, with Ichitaka suddenly bursting out of the water and embarrassing himself in front of all three girls.
Also, Nami begs Iori to show her “peach,” which I like to think is something that I”s invented. It’s… well, just sticking your butt above the water so that it looks like a peach. There is no point, and yet, it’s just one of those extra fanservice steps that I”s takes to ensure that you are paying attention.
The new girl in this volume is named Izumi, a girl that Ichitaka picks up on the beach. The two have a mutual attraction, and Izumi is a nice and normal girl without the weird standoffishness that Iori has or the over-the-top reactions to misunderstandings that every other girl in a series like this has. And yet, Ichitaka can’t bring himself to date her because he still has feelings for Iori, though he’s blown it with her big-time twice already.
For more silly romance manga games, later we see a special rock stacking love ceremony with a surprise ending. Not quite as epic as some of the other storylines, but appreciated all the same.
For some reason, he gets his confidence at the end of the volume and decides to admit his feelings to Iori directly… but is thwarted. And it seems like the plot is ready to go off on a tangent next time, so… yeah. That’s just how these things go.
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