Walkin Butterfly Volume 2

Walkin' Butterfly [ウォーキン･バタフライ] #2

by Chihiro Tamaki

The story of misfit Michiko continues. As a tall girl, Michiko never knew quite how to fit into a world that showed her no love or respect... until the day she decided to become a model. Now Michiko is determined to pursue her goal, although success is still far off in the distance. Meanwhile, Mihara, the fashion designer who unintentionally inspired Michiko to become a model, deals with his own complexes and faces his own problems. Are their destinies intertwined? Find out in Volume 2 of Walkin' Butterfly!

Genres: Manga, Josei, Collections

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jillian -always aspiring- · Rating 3 out of 5]

2020 Read #79

I enjoyed this a lot more than the first volume, simply because the main character and her appointed rival (an up-and-coming fashion designer) are going through similar arcs of rejection, aims for success, and utter stubbornness to do things their way. It’s really intriguing to see their stories running parallel like that. I don’t know if or when I can read the final two volumes, but we’ll see if I can track them down since now I’m interested in seeing how this story culminates.

[feux d'artifice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Watching both the male and female leads grow is pretty interesting

[#ReadAllTheBooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a little skittish about series that start with such a strong first volume. Many of them start off strong, only to fall to the usual manga cliches, such as "she's no good, but a small amount of training turns her into the best". I was incredibly pleased to discover that not only does that not happen in this series, but the main character has to go through an enormous amount of training just to be halfway decent enough to do the lowest ranking jobs in the modeling world. Another wonderful addition to this manga is Michiko's manager, Kyo. She's just as gritty as the rest of the cast, and even better yet is that while she's willing enough to teach Michiko, she's not going to hold her hand throughout the entire proceedings. Also in this volume you begin to see more of Mihara (the designer) & how he started to become the person you see in the first volume.

I can honestly say that if the next two volumes keep up the same pace, this is one series that I'll collect to it's finish. Again, it's just so refreshing to see an "I wanna be a..." manga where the main heroine has to actually work for what she wants & doesn't have any sort of special or magical treatment b/c she's the lead character. While such mangas are great to read, sometimes you just want to read something a little more realistic.

[Mely · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. The protagonist doesn't get far in her quest, she won't make a move on her crush, she wants to advance in modeling without actually working on it. It feels like a retread of V1 except for the revealed family background of antagonist/eventual love interest Ko Mihara.