Kōsuke Fujishima (藤島康介, born July 7, 1964) is a Japanese manga artist.
Born in Chiba, Japan, he first came to public attention as an editor of Puff magazine, his first job after completing high school. Fujishima originally intended to be a draftsman, but took the editorial role after failing to get a drafting apprenticeship. He later became assistant to manga artist Tatsuya Egawa in the production of the Making Be Free! manga, and in 1986 began his first original manga series You're Under Arrest. His second manga series Oh My Goddess!, also translated as Ah! My Goddess, is extremely popular and has made Fujishima a household name in Japan. In addition, he is also well known as the character designer for several games in the Tales RPG video game series and Sakura Wars.
He is known for his love of automobiles and motorcycles, and several of his series and their characters reflect this, such as in éX-Driver and Oh My Goddess!.
This volume was a step in the right direction compared to the previous one. Though the stakes were low, there was a nice mixture of comedy and emotion which really helped to make it an entertaining experience. As always Belldandy and Keiichi are adorable together and this volume is more evidence to this claim.
This one is a lot of fun, but it isn't going to be something that's particularly impactful in the future. You can pretty much pick this one up out of order if you wanted to. There's one chapter of lead in in the prior volume, but I think you can get by without it. Nothing like good old memory loss!
This volume is just one whole story, about everyone losing their memory. It's kinda funny, but it has its creepy moments, between Keichi and his sister...Thought it was odd that Fujishima would put that in there. Since when is it "funny" or "cute" that a brother and sister don't remember each other, and are momentarily convinced that they are married?
I just found that the loss of memory was a bit cliched, and most of the story is everyone wandering around, trying to figure themselves out, in not a particularly entertaining fashion. It could have been handled very differently, but it feels like Fujishima just took the easy, lazy way out.
And Keichi is still a wuss when it comes to even holding Belldandy's hand.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.