Wild Act 5
Posted: September 4, 2009 Filed under: Wild Act 2 Comments »Rie Takada – Tokyopop – 2004 – 10 volumes
Um. The plot doesn’t seem to be getting any closer to debunking the theory that Ryu and Yuniko are brother and sister, and the two are starting to lose their resolve not to be all touchy-feely. Again, I’m never, ever comfortable with the family stuff, and I’m genuinely unsure as to whether or not the two are going to turn out to be unrelated. There are lots of different places this could go. Ugh.
Most of the plot this time around involves trying to locate and steal a dress belonging to Yuniko’s mom from Maki’s mother. The problem being, of course, that Maki is a paparazz0 and wants any speck of dirt on the two in order to sell to the tabloids. For some reason, I can deal with absolutely everything the series throws at me – the fact that Yuniko is the daughter of two popular actors, that she successfully steals memorabilia related to her favorite dead actor, that she winds up hooking up with the hottest new actor around, that the two might actually be siblings – but I have a hard time swallowing that Maki is so thoroughly on top of everything that Yuniko and Ryo do that he manages to photograph and record every single movement, no matter how private the conversation or how insane it is that he would know about it in advance. I guess I can’t swallow it simply because it’s working against the main characters and is totally ridiculous. But anyway, there’s a lot of Maki and his insane hidden cameras in this volume.
The storyline doesn’t actually advance that far, and the pair isn’t any closer to proving they aren’t related… but it’s still a pretty fun ride, and I got a big kick out of the thieving and how in love Yuniko and Ryu are. It really is one of the cutest and most romantic manga I’ve read, I just wish the brother/sister ick wasnt haging over everything.
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