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Heaven's Memo Pad #2
神様のメモ帳 2 [Kami-sama no Memo-chō]
One day a Thai girl holding a travel bag enters the ramen shop looking for the young detective. Her request is "please save my father". Her father disappeared telling her, Meo, to run away taking that bag and hide. The tension raises when inside the bag they found 200 million yen in cash. The team investigates in search for Kusakabe Masaya (Meo's father) and find out about Hello Corp. and its network involvement in embezzlement, yakuza, and using immigrant women for prostitution.
- GenresLight NovelFiction
331 pages, Paperback
First published June 25, 2007
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May 25, 2011
It's a really good book with a lot of humour and a nice mystery.
But for me, it really wasn't my type of book.
Before I criticize it, I want to make sure people know for sure that this is all personal.
I am half way through the book and I'm completely sick of it already so I'm going to put it down and move on to the next one.
One of the things I didn't like about the book was that NONE of the characters were likable.
The main character has some serious self-esteem issue thinking everything he does is minor. Even when he is blatantly is treated like crap he still hangs around the same people who treats him crap and his self pity finished being pitiful in the first chapter or so and became rather pathetic than something to sympasize about.
The other main character, Alice, is a stuck up brat who lives at home and seldome goes out. She treats her side kick (who is willing to help her live a healthy life) crap and says to him mean things such as, "so enjoy your meaningless life until then.", "Stop wasting your time thinking." She also constantly puts his advice and ideas down.
I don't know why, but everyone seemed to be mean to one another (well mainly the main character) and it was annoying to see such acts weren't punished at all.
The other groups of this detective office weren't any better either.
One was into gambling, had connections with a bunch of yakuza's and gangs and constantly bullied the main character for some reason.
The person who made the request was a Taiwanese girl which also made me angry because she didn't really come to the country legally, has proper education or anything and has this weird mind set to marry her dad.
As a LEGAL immigrant to another country I don't like illegal immigrants. They make the normal ones who assimilate into the society look bad. The book seemed to represent the illegal immigrants as all prostitutes and yakuzas which really isn't true either. I mean, I really don't mind prostitutes, but when they're in the country illegally and faking their marrige, its a whole different story.
I also figured that the money wasn't really from the dad's illegal actions (though he did a lot of other illegal things before hand) because the book blatantly expressed its opinion on how it's not going to be the case. This kinda ruined the whole mystery sector for me.
To be honest, I lost interest in where the money came from after the first chapter which pretty much meant I lost interest in the book...
But anyways! As I've said, this is my personal opinion and the book itself is actually pretty good with a decent story and funny characters.
But for me, it really wasn't my type of book.
Before I criticize it, I want to make sure people know for sure that this is all personal.
I am half way through the book and I'm completely sick of it already so I'm going to put it down and move on to the next one.
One of the things I didn't like about the book was that NONE of the characters were likable.
The main character has some serious self-esteem issue thinking everything he does is minor. Even when he is blatantly is treated like crap he still hangs around the same people who treats him crap and his self pity finished being pitiful in the first chapter or so and became rather pathetic than something to sympasize about.
The other main character, Alice, is a stuck up brat who lives at home and seldome goes out. She treats her side kick (who is willing to help her live a healthy life) crap and says to him mean things such as, "so enjoy your meaningless life until then.", "Stop wasting your time thinking." She also constantly puts his advice and ideas down.
I don't know why, but everyone seemed to be mean to one another (well mainly the main character) and it was annoying to see such acts weren't punished at all.
The other groups of this detective office weren't any better either.
One was into gambling, had connections with a bunch of yakuza's and gangs and constantly bullied the main character for some reason.
The person who made the request was a Taiwanese girl which also made me angry because she didn't really come to the country legally, has proper education or anything and has this weird mind set to marry her dad.
As a LEGAL immigrant to another country I don't like illegal immigrants. They make the normal ones who assimilate into the society look bad. The book seemed to represent the illegal immigrants as all prostitutes and yakuzas which really isn't true either. I mean, I really don't mind prostitutes, but when they're in the country illegally and faking their marrige, its a whole different story.
I also figured that the money wasn't really from the dad's illegal actions (though he did a lot of other illegal things before hand) because the book blatantly expressed its opinion on how it's not going to be the case. This kinda ruined the whole mystery sector for me.
To be honest, I lost interest in where the money came from after the first chapter which pretty much meant I lost interest in the book...
But anyways! As I've said, this is my personal opinion and the book itself is actually pretty good with a decent story and funny characters.
January 23, 2017
This one isn't my favorite arc in the anime either.
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