insaneneko

I was shocked to find out that there are (at least) 9 volumes of Manatsu no higaisha by Aochi Syu and illustrated by Fujiyama Hyouta. I read the first two and didn't think they were very good. They were crap, but not the offensive kind. The biggest problem with them was the insipidness of the characters.

The main character is one of those slightly-soft-in-the-head boys (who have grown up indulged by those around him) who I can't imagine being desired as ardently as he is. The main love interest is a wanna-be alpha-male who doesn't quite succeed. He mostly came off as desperate and immature. There's another guy who was *really* pathetic for a variety of reasons. I felt bad for him because the author really did him a disservice. Yet for all the bleah I felt for the two volumes (I skimmed parts of the second one) I still want to read the rest of the series. Why did she even bother writing more? What is the appeal? Maybe it'll come to me in volume 7 or something. ^^;

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