Gentlemen’s Alliance † 6
Posted: May 21, 2010 Filed under: Gentlemen's Alliance † Leave a comment »Arina Tanemura – Viz – 2008 – 11 volumes
Oh, it’s so girly. Who loves who, student council overthrows, lots of secret identities, and everyone loves Haine. Normally the latter plot point makes me hate a series, but man, it works here. Possibly because this is the absolute most girly series on the planet.
Haine is still conflicted after what she found out about Shizumasa last volume, and the student council president decides he’s going to have to win Haine over from scratch. She… resists, but not too hard. There actually is a little bit of mystery about this, because there’s no predetermined suitor. Childhood love, or current love? Hmm. Of course, one of them is a total jerk, so I am leaning heavily one way.
Mostly, the volume is about Maora. I love Maora. He decides to be very manly here, and there’s a whole thing about how he wants to date Haine and overthrow Shizumasa as the student council president. It comes down to a lover’s quarrel between he and Maguri, and Maguri is rather terrified and speechless through the entire volume. But everything is so serious and sincere, I couldn’t help but be won over in all the theatrics.
It’s just… cute and soapy. There’s not much to add, since most of the development this time around was for Maora, a secondary character. He’s a good one, though. I’m still waiting for more story time for Ushio.
Cute, cute, cute stuff. Still hasn’t trumped Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne as my favorite Tanemura series, but it’s definitely a close second at this point. It doesn’t exactly excel at anything, but it is overwhelmingly girly, and there’s only so much I, a lover of girly manga, can take before I’m totally won over.
