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Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Manga #2
Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Manga, Vol. 2
Get ready for a crash course on the Saku Chitose style! When Kenta Yamazaki, former shut-in and all-around loser, asks Saku Chitose to teach him how to become popular at school…Saku can’t quite refuse. After all, he’s the man who works magic and takes care of things―everybody’s hero. Under his instruction, Kenta faces a head-to-toe transformation from the way he talks to his fashion choices. Will he finally start living the dream? Or is the life of a popular kid harder than he thought?
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194 pages, Paperback
Published October 18, 2022
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October 24, 2022
It’s back to school for perennial shut-in Kenta, but only if Chitose can turn him into a rough approximation of somebody who doesn’t suck. Stand back for a lot of higher thought from the lowest brows as I try and make the case for anybody reading this.
No, but really, I cannot stop reading this series. It’s good, but also awful. There’s a streak of misogyny that may or may not be a joke on Chitose’s part, but using the term ‘harem slut’ to describe any of your friends is probably a bit of a leap for any definition of good relationships.
But Chitose has some good points about standing up and forging your own path in life, rather than just letting life dump on you and shying away from it. He tough loves the hell out of Kenta, but it’s heavily implied Kenta would end up a real creep without it.
And it doesn’t completely judge his otaku nature, merely points out that balance is possible in all things and some confidence goes a long way. And maybe girls without a mind of their own are boring. There are some actual points being made in all this.
Which is all good, but, man, the balls (or equivalent) on this thing. After all that speechifying and the revelation that Chitose is in this for his own image and if that helps Kenta, well, great, but whatever, we end up going shopping for clothes. And you had best believe that Yuuko shows up in some seriously cute clothes that the manga lingers on for several pages.
I’m still not sure if that’s pandering or just calling out the audience. That’s the thing about this story - I have no idea if it’s heartfelt or cold as ice or both. It depicts a very different high school experience, the popular crowd, than we usually see, and that’s actually a really refreshing take on this genre.
But there’s still infighting and problems and Kenta is way out of his depth and has little hope of fitting in, so where is that going to leave him? He’s got a bit of a revenge plot going on, nothing more extreme than making himself over to impress a girl who dissed him, but the way this book is going, it’s as like to fail as not.
It’s not like this book is starlight and rainbows, but it makes the point that you can be a decent human being and sometimes that’s enough. But is Chitose a decent human being? Hell if I know.
This story is insidiously well-written. Chitose has a plan and he knows how to play the game and he says some smart stuff. He makes good points, but whether he’s believing what he’s putting out or just a pure demagogue is a good question. He wouldn’t be the first teenager who thought he was all-knowing without knowing much of anything at all (guilty as charged).
Small bits of misogyny are still small bits of misogyny, so be warned in advance. I certainly wondered what the hell I was in for, but it feels more like the book acknowledging the genuinely awful and horny nature of teenage boys than anything more suspect. Hopefully.
4 stars - I love reading this manga, but I am genuinely not sure that I should. So it remains, but unlike a lot of car crash spectacle series, this is very, very well done for what it is. I just still can’t figure out what it is yet. If I had any more faith in it, it would get the full five because of how compelling it is, but I’m certainly not naive about how it comes across at times.
No, but really, I cannot stop reading this series. It’s good, but also awful. There’s a streak of misogyny that may or may not be a joke on Chitose’s part, but using the term ‘harem slut’ to describe any of your friends is probably a bit of a leap for any definition of good relationships.
But Chitose has some good points about standing up and forging your own path in life, rather than just letting life dump on you and shying away from it. He tough loves the hell out of Kenta, but it’s heavily implied Kenta would end up a real creep without it.
And it doesn’t completely judge his otaku nature, merely points out that balance is possible in all things and some confidence goes a long way. And maybe girls without a mind of their own are boring. There are some actual points being made in all this.
Which is all good, but, man, the balls (or equivalent) on this thing. After all that speechifying and the revelation that Chitose is in this for his own image and if that helps Kenta, well, great, but whatever, we end up going shopping for clothes. And you had best believe that Yuuko shows up in some seriously cute clothes that the manga lingers on for several pages.
I’m still not sure if that’s pandering or just calling out the audience. That’s the thing about this story - I have no idea if it’s heartfelt or cold as ice or both. It depicts a very different high school experience, the popular crowd, than we usually see, and that’s actually a really refreshing take on this genre.
But there’s still infighting and problems and Kenta is way out of his depth and has little hope of fitting in, so where is that going to leave him? He’s got a bit of a revenge plot going on, nothing more extreme than making himself over to impress a girl who dissed him, but the way this book is going, it’s as like to fail as not.
It’s not like this book is starlight and rainbows, but it makes the point that you can be a decent human being and sometimes that’s enough. But is Chitose a decent human being? Hell if I know.
This story is insidiously well-written. Chitose has a plan and he knows how to play the game and he says some smart stuff. He makes good points, but whether he’s believing what he’s putting out or just a pure demagogue is a good question. He wouldn’t be the first teenager who thought he was all-knowing without knowing much of anything at all (guilty as charged).
Small bits of misogyny are still small bits of misogyny, so be warned in advance. I certainly wondered what the hell I was in for, but it feels more like the book acknowledging the genuinely awful and horny nature of teenage boys than anything more suspect. Hopefully.
4 stars - I love reading this manga, but I am genuinely not sure that I should. So it remains, but unlike a lot of car crash spectacle series, this is very, very well done for what it is. I just still can’t figure out what it is yet. If I had any more faith in it, it would get the full five because of how compelling it is, but I’m certainly not naive about how it comes across at times.
July 28, 2023
Some good moments, but yet I'm still not totally sold on this series, I have ine volume left to read right now
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