Wild Ones 8
November 24, 2009
Kiyo Fujiwara – Viz – 2009 – 10 volumes
I do like this series more and more with each volume I read. I still don’t think it’ll ever be one of my favorites since I just can’t get into the characters, but it helps that it hasn’t gone back to the boring filler that I hopped in on.
This volume had a cute side story about Azuma, Sachie’s other suitor, and a little girl he meets at the hospital. The little girl is in a similar situation with her grandmother that Azuma finds himself in with his grandfather (ie, both are loved, but both grandparents might not have much time left), and he takes the little girl under his wing in a rather sweet chapter that has bonding in every possible way it can. In the next chapter, the same little girl takes a trip with Sachie, Azuma, and Rakuto to the zoo.
Things are still weird between Sachie and Rokuto after she let her feelings slip while they were doing the servant business, but apparently the slip was subconscious, because she spends the entire volume wondering “what’s wrong with me?” These types of stalls are my least favorite, because… come on, what teenage girl is going to be this clueless about her feelings? Whatever.
There’s lots of cute stuff between Sachie and Rokuto, however. There’s a short school subplot about Sachie getting bad grades, and then everyone winds up on a trip to Hawaii (? it was sort of a budget trip, it may not be Hawaii) that segues into a story about Rokuto’s past.
I’m not as curious to read the next volume as I was this one, but I have a feeling I’ll probably like it a little more when Rokuto gets more character development. We’ll see.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
November 25, 2009 at 11:35 pm
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