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manga: Love*Com Vol 1
Feb. 10th, 2009 03:16 pmAt 5’7”, 15-year-old Risa is unusually tall for a girl. (In Japan. It’s what I consider to be average. Then again, I’ve spent the entirety of my life surrounded by German-American giants.) At 5’1”, her classmate, Otani, is unusually short for a boy. (As I am 5’1” and can recognize most of the men I know by their shoulder blades, this one is easier for me to wrap my head around.) As they essentially share a brain, they’re always fighting and trading insults over their respective heights, which both are very sensitive about. Naturally, the entire school also thinks they’re going out.
They call a cease-fire of sorts when Otani develops a crush on Risa’s friend, Chiharu, and offers to befriend Suzuki, a boy Risa likes, so they can help each other win over their respective crushes. Both crushes are largely based on the recipient of the crush being close to their height, while Chiharu and Suzuki, who are extremely shy, find it easier to talk to them than most people of the opposite sex for the same reason. Naturally, Chiharu and Suzuki develop crushes on each other, and Risa and Otani spend a chunk of the volume alternately trying to get them together, and help each other out. In the process, everyone just becomes more and more convinced that they like each other.
This is cute and fluffy and I want to read more, but I’m not sure I can see the premise lasting (I think) 17 volumes. Then again, several shoujo have proven me wrong on that front before. There was one bit around the middle that irritated me, where Risa decided that Otani apparently had more height related angst than she did, and she should be more sensitive, but with no sign of reciprocation, but that didn’t last long.
They call a cease-fire of sorts when Otani develops a crush on Risa’s friend, Chiharu, and offers to befriend Suzuki, a boy Risa likes, so they can help each other win over their respective crushes. Both crushes are largely based on the recipient of the crush being close to their height, while Chiharu and Suzuki, who are extremely shy, find it easier to talk to them than most people of the opposite sex for the same reason. Naturally, Chiharu and Suzuki develop crushes on each other, and Risa and Otani spend a chunk of the volume alternately trying to get them together, and help each other out. In the process, everyone just becomes more and more convinced that they like each other.
This is cute and fluffy and I want to read more, but I’m not sure I can see the premise lasting (I think) 17 volumes. Then again, several shoujo have proven me wrong on that front before. There was one bit around the middle that irritated me, where Risa decided that Otani apparently had more height related angst than she did, and she should be more sensitive, but with no sign of reciprocation, but that didn’t last long.
