![]() ![]() ![]() I have no clue what Ushio's motivations are towards the end of the book, nor why Haine makes the decision she does, especially since, by my reckoning, she was asserting the exact opposite just a few pages earlier. I think it's because in the best stories of this type, you can understand why the characters are doing what they're doing, or even feel what they're feeling, even if you would never, ever do as they do. ![]() With some manga, I can just roll with over-the-top melodrama, no matter how cliched, but this one is missing the mark a bit. In any case, I still think the storytelling's off. These are high school sophomores, more or less, and there's also Ushio going to an adult man's room, and this man works for the school she goes to and. This volume has less obvious contrivance as far as the plot goes, but we still have some fairly stereotypical stuff like Haine falling off a cliff and Takanari risking himself to save her, and a completely unconvincing scenario where Haine and Takanari are on a school trip, and somehow they end up in a hotel room with just one bed. ![]()
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