Wild Act 6
Posted: January 10, 2010 Filed under: Wild Act 1 Comment »Rie Takada – Tokyopop – 2004 – 10 volumes
Sigh. I took a little break from this series, but I’m still not all that interested in what’s going on, which is a shame after I liked the beginning so much.
To be fair, this volume was better than the past couple. Yuniko and Ryu finally step things up a little more in their relationship, which is nice to see, and again, I can’t get enough of their dialogue with one another or the sense of humor in this series. The dialogue is excellent, and I can’t get enough of the strange offhand comments and the barbs the characters make back and forth to one another. That’s definitely its strong suit, and it’s the only reason I’m still enjoying it as much as I am.
The characters are still, still, still tracking down Akira Nanae stuff. There’s a boring and completely unsurprising confrontation between Maki and Ryu. Admittedly, the stealing in this volume is done much differently than it has been in the past, but in the end, it’s still just stealing Akira stuff, and the characters still haven’t learned anything new because of it. And even with Ryu and Yuniko stepping things up, there’s still fighting between the two, and the volume ends in a bad spot for the pair. If it actually goes for more than a volume in the direction its indicating, I’ll be surprised, but otherwise, this is a pretty typical shoujo manga rebound scenario, except the rebound character is completely uninteresting and Yuniko is nearly breaking character to be in this spot in the first place. I’m sure the misunderstanding will be smoothed out, they will make up, and go back to stealing Akira stuff in the next volume. Sigh. There was one other major upheval, but it was more a point of contention between the characters rather than a major plot point right now. I don’t have high hopes for it in the future.
I hope the next volume… I don’t know, is more exciting. Maybe I’ve just read too much shoujo manga and that’s the reason I’m not enjoying this. I feel mean for badmouthing it, and I feel like I really should be liking it. But I just feel like the plot should have moved forward, and I hate seeing the characters getting stuck in ruts that feel like they really should be strong enough to avoid.
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