Dengeki Daisy 3
Posted: July 31, 2011 Filed under: Dengeki Daisy Leave a comment »Kyousuke Motomi – Viz – 2010 – 10+ volumes
So soon! Shame on you, Dengeki Daisy!
I’m spacing these reviews out a little bit, but as I said, I read four volumes straight through after picking up volume two. I couldn’t put it down. It’s just the right mix of sweet and funny for my taste. Kurosaki is just the right mix of antagonistic big brother and white knight, and Teru’s combined admiration of Daisy and her growing crush on Kurosaki coupled with her own antagonistic skills.
I love that this series seems to favor plots about poor Teru getting kidnapped and whatnot. Kurosaki wouldn’t have much to protect her from if it didn’t. In this book, there’s a story about a man after her brother’s program kidnapping Teru discreetly, right out from under Kurosaki’s nose, in order to search her cellphone for the program. He’s a relatively civilized kidnapper, but still. I loved Kurosaki’s frantic search for this man, and Teru’s interactions with him as well.
There’s another story at the beginning of the volume about Teru moving out of Kurosaki’s house. Again, it’s mostly a funny and very sweet story, full of character moments from the two. Lots of bellybutton flashing and bald chants, along with a few tears for the parting. What can I say, I’m an absolute sucker for this sort of thing. It’s really well-done here, too. Impossible not to like.
The third story is one about Teru being out with her friends. Sort of. Actually, that’s not what it’s about at all, but she does go to the beach with her friends. This story hinges on the song “Time After Time,” which, aside from being delightfully out of left field, is just about the perfect song choice. I love it when well-known, slightly nostalgic songs are used as plot devices (for instance, “Moon River” in Honey and Clover).
It’s just great. Wonderful stuff. It went from off my radar to one of my favorite current series literally overnight. This is an important volume too, though I am a little disappointed it… got to the part in this volume as quickly as it did. Still, the next volumes are no worse because of it.
