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GE～グッドエンディング～ #9
Good Ending: Volume 9
Kurokawa reçoit une lettre de son ex-petit ami, Tôru. Alors que sa relation avec Utsumi se passait bien, elle se dispute avec lui. Voilà qu'arrive l'anniversaire d'Utsumi : Kurokawa lui apporte un cadeau, Utsumi lui transmet ses sentiments et déchire la lettre de Tôru sans que Kurokawa l'ait lue. La rancoeur enfin dissipée, leurs sentiments exaltés les pousseront-ils l'un vers l'autre ?
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First published August 17, 2011
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July 20, 2016
In general, the series is pretty cute. There are major up and down swings in my mood while reading this. Sometimes everything is happy and adorable, but other times I get frustrated with the characters because they don't seem to be thinking through anything at all.
September 17, 2020
Kurokawa and Utsumi are getting hot and heavy, but it turns out it might be heavier than Kurokawa can stand. In the midst of this latest upheaval, Utsumi bumps up against Yuasa, a slightly older photography student. Can this series stand an increase to its female density? Let’s find out.
Sigh.
First off, I hate myself for saying this, but Yuasa is absolutely amazing. I typically hate late additions to the cast like this, but she is the perfect distillation of the free-spirited college student artist type (I knew a lot of them in university).
Her design is stunning as well - she has the most uniquely drawn eyes of any manga character I’ve ever seen. Coupled with her experience and sex-positive attitude, she is way more than Utsumi can handle (and she is definitely more forceful than is kosher with him).
To Utsumi’s credit, he is very good to Kurokawa for much of this volume. He has enough backbone to stand up for her, stand by her, and to try and make her happy. I have dragged him a lot for being an idiot, but he makes his choices and sticks by them more than is usual here.
The first chapter, in particular, is actually a really good lesson in respecting your partner, viewed through the lens of Kurokawa’s unresolved PTSD from her last relationship. It takes a high road and shows a thoughtfulness I hadn’t seen in this series for a while.
Then the rest of the book happens. With the thought of physical intimacy terrifying Kurokawa, everything goes wrong for our pair, leading to an expected parting shot for a cliffhanger.
As always, tone is this book’s real problem. It cracks wise during serious moments and, like the immature students it represents, cannot seem to let a moment just be a moment half the time.
And when one of your leads is freaking out over sex, it is tacky as hell to pepper the book with pin-up shots of the girls. To say nothing of having said lead strip to her underwear and let the panels shift to a full view and linger there over two chapters. That’s believable artist action, not character action.
As for Kurokawa’s plan to get over her trauma? Just the worst. I can’t even or I will be here all day, but believe me when I say it is insane and Utsumi rightfully blows up at her over it. No woman would suggest this. Four words: trigger warning, suggested rape (ugh, just ugh, I get infuriated typing it out).
2.5 stars again, but I will begrudgingly round up because of how much I enjoyed Yuasa and the way they finally toned down Omura (even if it was largely just to twist the knife a little). There is good in this series, but it is wedged in between some of the dumbest damn ideas.
If this book could pick a lane between coming of age story and harem goofery it would be much better, but it won’t, so it is what it is, for both better AND worse.
Sigh.
First off, I hate myself for saying this, but Yuasa is absolutely amazing. I typically hate late additions to the cast like this, but she is the perfect distillation of the free-spirited college student artist type (I knew a lot of them in university).
Her design is stunning as well - she has the most uniquely drawn eyes of any manga character I’ve ever seen. Coupled with her experience and sex-positive attitude, she is way more than Utsumi can handle (and she is definitely more forceful than is kosher with him).
To Utsumi’s credit, he is very good to Kurokawa for much of this volume. He has enough backbone to stand up for her, stand by her, and to try and make her happy. I have dragged him a lot for being an idiot, but he makes his choices and sticks by them more than is usual here.
The first chapter, in particular, is actually a really good lesson in respecting your partner, viewed through the lens of Kurokawa’s unresolved PTSD from her last relationship. It takes a high road and shows a thoughtfulness I hadn’t seen in this series for a while.
Then the rest of the book happens. With the thought of physical intimacy terrifying Kurokawa, everything goes wrong for our pair, leading to an expected parting shot for a cliffhanger.
As always, tone is this book’s real problem. It cracks wise during serious moments and, like the immature students it represents, cannot seem to let a moment just be a moment half the time.
And when one of your leads is freaking out over sex, it is tacky as hell to pepper the book with pin-up shots of the girls. To say nothing of having said lead strip to her underwear and let the panels shift to a full view and linger there over two chapters. That’s believable artist action, not character action.
As for Kurokawa’s plan to get over her trauma? Just the worst. I can’t even or I will be here all day, but believe me when I say it is insane and Utsumi rightfully blows up at her over it. No woman would suggest this. Four words: trigger warning, suggested rape (ugh, just ugh, I get infuriated typing it out).
2.5 stars again, but I will begrudgingly round up because of how much I enjoyed Yuasa and the way they finally toned down Omura (even if it was largely just to twist the knife a little). There is good in this series, but it is wedged in between some of the dumbest damn ideas.
If this book could pick a lane between coming of age story and harem goofery it would be much better, but it won’t, so it is what it is, for both better AND worse.
December 5, 2020
no se que decir, pero este manga me sigue teniendo atrapado y lo sigo disfrutando bastante
January 21, 2015
Finally enteriŋ ðe more mature part, even if ðe protagoniſt is ſtill an idiot.
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