#A CRAZY THING CALLED LOVE 2 SERIES#
How does series author Kouji Miura do this? Well, just like all the best love comedies out there, by depicting Chinatsu in the cutest and most attractive way. That much was already said last week, so we should talk about the idea of getting the reader to fall in love with Chinatsu. With any luck, this might take some of the pressure off of Nine Dragons’ Ball Parade as the sole straight sports manga in the roster, as well as High School Family, which has quite a strong sports storyline (when it’s not promoting weird fetishes). Was the two characters playing for two different teams simply a plot vehicle for getting them to meet and fall in love? Was this going to be more of a love comedy with a sports element, or a sports manga with a love comedy element? Blue Box chapter 2 pretty much definitely says the latter, because Taiki’s goal of making it to nationals is going to require one hell of a lot of work. To start off with the first aim, when chapter 1 first launched, we didn’t know just how integral the sports element of the series was going to be. Whether that second goal succeeds will be in the eye of the beholder, but the former has very interesting implications for the Jump line-up. Simply put, Blue Box chapter 2 has two aims: one, to set up protagonist Taiki Inomata’s goal of making it to badminton nationals, and two, to make you (the reader) fall in love with his love interest, Chinatsu Kano. Even so, I did say that I was willing to be convinced otherwise, and Blue Box chapter 2 does make some steps towards doing that. Another love comedy where the two protagonists end up living together? Hmm, yeah, I think I got my fill of that with The Cuckoo’s Fiancee and I didn’t like that.
I’ll be honest and say that chapter 1 of this series didn’t rock my world.
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