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Beware of the beast, Part 2, April 17, 2006
This review is from: Beauty is the Beast, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Wanichin (Wanibuchi) has been elected dorm president by the former president of the boys dorm, much to everyone's surprise. One of his new responsibilities lies in him approving preparations and ideas for the upcoming dorm festival. The girls side decides to put on a caf? with dim sum and to wear maids uniforms and traditional Chinese dresses. Wanichin decides to construct a pool table and have a pool hall. At first the boys don't think it can be done but after it is constructed they see their president in a whole new light. For one thing he is amazing at pool... for another he plans on donating the proceeds to the girls dormitory (who for all intents and purposes suffer utter neglect in favor of the boy's dorm) so that they can buy dryers and air conditioners. Wanichin is also key in negotiating a new supply of fruit when the girls fruit goes bad prematurely. This saddens Eimi, who previously was the only admirer of Wanichin but now she has to compete for his admiration.
Misao's younger sister, Yutaka Kurokawa pays Misao a visit, mostly because she's in love with Sawaguchi, the dorm manager. A manga fanatic she believes that he is ideal to fall in love with, based on her studies of manga. But will her love fall short of her expectations?
Eimi finds herself missing home and withdraws into a funk so bad she won't even eat. This most concerns Misao and Suza, because Eimi eats more than the two of them together ordinarily. They ask Wanichin to talk to her and he relates some of his past growing up in Mexico.
Then finally the volume ends in domestic irritations, first by the loss of the girl's dorms only TV set and then by an invasion of cockroaches that draws Suzu and Nuinui closer together... a good thing too, Suzu is so deathly afraid of roaches she looks as if she will keel over at the mere sight of them.
I'm still liking this manga. The problem is I'm not loving it yet. True, there's a lot of characters that are interesting and the romantic plot between Wanichin and Eimi is sweet, but it's not just thrilling me yet. Probably because this is one of the quietest mangas I have ever read. It has such a subtle feel of depth to it. I can't quite equate it to anything else at this point, which is good because it makes it stand out among the ranks. I think it's something that grows on people, you don't quite expect it to be all drama and emotion, and yet you do feel things for the people that you wouldn't feel unless it was well done. I still have to learn to love this series, but like I said I do like it, and that is a good start.
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