You’re So Cool 3
September 16, 2009
YoungHee Lee – Yen Press – 2009 – 6 volumes
To go completely against my last post, I realized while reading this volume that another reason I like a lot of these cutey Korean comics is that most of them are kind of mean-spirited in a hilarious way. It comes across all right in the context of the stories since the characters can dish it out as well as take it in most cases, but it really hit home here while I was laughing at two characters that were just tossing snide comments back and forth to one another.
Of course, Seung-Ha sort of follows the typical asshole boyfriend route a lot of bad shoujo manga take, except Nan-Woo frequently calls him out on it and teases him about his two-faced nature. She gets tortured a lot for her troubles, but she’s definitely not a damsel in distress. In this volume, Seung-Ha is moody and broods through most of the first half. Nan-Woo tries to approach him several times, but when she is shut down, she finally does the one thing that is unspeakable between the two: kinda sorta say how she feels about him, which isn’t boyfriend-girlfriend feelings, but it still makes his day. Then he acts all cool, so Nan-Woo has a chance to apply the title of the series to him.
The second half of the volume was an absolute riot though, and it improved my already high opinion of the series several times over. The two mystery boys that live with Nan-Woo. I thought maybe some lukewarm explanation had come in volume one that I had forgotten. It hadn’t, though, and the scruffy-haired boy hadn’t even been named. For good reason. I was right in thinking that neither of the boys being her brothers, but the truth is actually much more hilarious than I could have imagined. The scruffy-haired one does NOT get along with Seung-Ha, and it makes for several delightful scenes. I love when characters trade barbed dialogue like that.
I’m excited to see more of the two of them interacting. I’m a little worried things will get serious and turn to Seung-Ha’s tragic home life, though. We can only hope that food fights will somehow be involved again.
September 16, 2009 at 6:43 am
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