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そりゃないぜ ☆ ダーリン [Soryanaize Darling] #2
そりゃないぜ ☆ ダーリン 2
事故で輸血をしたことにより、春香という女性の記憶が蘇った留年女子大生の二ノ宮麻衣子。そして、ひょんなことから、亡くなった春香の息子・冬矢の面倒を見ている永瀬雪矢とひとつ屋根の下で一緒に暮らすことになる。麻衣子は特異体質になったおかげで、毎日戸惑うことばかり！ ある日、冬矢の不思議な力で4年前にタイムスリップした麻衣子は、雪矢と春香の隠された過去を知り…！？ ドキドキラブがぎっしりつまった胸キュン・ラブの第2巻！
186 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 25, 2005
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January 30, 2021
It sort of lost its footing at the end. It's like the author was told to make the series longer, so she went even more out there than was needed. It was still cute, and worth the read, but could have ended better. It went for a Fushigi Yuugi ending.
October 20, 2011
This josei title actually is fairly smut-reduced in the second volume, the growing nearness between Maiko and Yukiya are the main focus, with the adorable and no-longer-just-plot moppet Toya a close second.
The weird powers of Toya, inherited from his mother, become a bigger focus in the second volume, as they send Maiko back into the past to the time when Haruka, Toya's mother, married his father - just as I had expected (and I feel fairly satisfied that I did ^^) - Yukiya's identical twin, Seiya.
Remembering the flashbacks Maiko experienced, we have the situation that both brothers grew up with Haruka, but she fell in love with Seiya and so Yukiya is actually Toya's uncle and has been taking care of him since Haruka and his twin died.
I really appreciate a) the inherent kindness of Yukiya through all of this (he looks like a playboy, but when he is with a woman - we see Maiko here inhabiting the body of a Japanese actress in the past - he concentrates on her and is quite chivalrous. The seduction moments from the first volume are basically gone once Yukiya really accepts that Maiko is a separate woman from Haruka and loveable as herself) and b) artistry-wise that the people have more modern hairstyles and intricate clothing appropriate the setting than I'm used to in shoujo and josei (for example in Hapi Mari).
Nagae-sensei has published since 1999 and this series is from 2004, so she's really good at her craft by now. Maiko actually is a lot less victim to her emotions, she has accepted her own love for Yukiya and Toya and is now justifiably worried about whether Yukiya can seperate his attraction to her from his attraction to Haruka (who he sort of might have a second chance with by being with Maiko). This is the main source of conflict, because Yukiya is only slowly becoming aware of this problem and that it is a legimate worry himself.
To add some more tension the doctor, Shizuru, who had healed Maiko, and whom she had an unrequited crush on, enters her life again: he was inspired by her zest for life and her willingness to risk a lot for her convictions (she got majorly injured by trying to rescue a dog from a car and has been the butt of her friends' and family's affectionate derision ever since) and broke with his family who had pressured him into taking up the same job as his father to concentrate on playing the piano which was his actual passion.
He took a year to regroup and be able to afford a future and has now returned to convince Maiko to be his muse and his love, because whenever he thinks of her he is inspired to write music. And the mangaka is clever enough to not make him a two-faced bastard: he really is as devoted and kind as he seems. He really has the feeling that Maiko saved him and would like to be the answer to her dreams as she has turned out to be the answer to his.
Things come to a head when Yukiya can not articulate the growing realisation (due to an actual rival showing up this is accelerated) that he does love Maiko as she is, more and more. She is very different from Haruka. However, he can't make himself encourage Maiko to try and find a way of exorcising the Haruka in her life - and a deeply hurt Maiko turns to the patient Shizuru who fell in love with her for her own self BEFORE she had the memories of Haruka.
Very tempting indeed, and personally? I applaud the decision the mangaka made that an emotionally hurt woman who has decided to break all ties to the love which brings her pain and doesn't seem to be returned goes with the guy who cherishes her and has a night of love - yes, the author goes there. How many men in romances (whether in books, films or on TV) haven't done that before! Why shouldn't a heroine be allowed to stray, especially for non-sordid reasons.
The whole manga is already built on the fact that there is not just one true love - otherwise Yukiya who has loved his sister-in-law since they were kids would have to suffer in agony for the rest of his long life.
The continuing caveat: WHY did the only female friend of Maiko's have to be a girl with a yen for abusive boyfriends? Giving Maiko a go-getter personality who takes no nonsense could have been done differently without detracting from the story. Every time I see her show up with a band-aid on her face, I get pissed off at that cheap shot by Nagae-sensei.
The weird powers of Toya, inherited from his mother, become a bigger focus in the second volume, as they send Maiko back into the past to the time when Haruka, Toya's mother, married his father - just as I had expected (and I feel fairly satisfied that I did ^^) - Yukiya's identical twin, Seiya.
Remembering the flashbacks Maiko experienced, we have the situation that both brothers grew up with Haruka, but she fell in love with Seiya and so Yukiya is actually Toya's uncle and has been taking care of him since Haruka and his twin died.
I really appreciate a) the inherent kindness of Yukiya through all of this (he looks like a playboy, but when he is with a woman - we see Maiko here inhabiting the body of a Japanese actress in the past - he concentrates on her and is quite chivalrous. The seduction moments from the first volume are basically gone once Yukiya really accepts that Maiko is a separate woman from Haruka and loveable as herself) and b) artistry-wise that the people have more modern hairstyles and intricate clothing appropriate the setting than I'm used to in shoujo and josei (for example in Hapi Mari).
Nagae-sensei has published since 1999 and this series is from 2004, so she's really good at her craft by now. Maiko actually is a lot less victim to her emotions, she has accepted her own love for Yukiya and Toya and is now justifiably worried about whether Yukiya can seperate his attraction to her from his attraction to Haruka (who he sort of might have a second chance with by being with Maiko). This is the main source of conflict, because Yukiya is only slowly becoming aware of this problem and that it is a legimate worry himself.
To add some more tension the doctor, Shizuru, who had healed Maiko, and whom she had an unrequited crush on, enters her life again: he was inspired by her zest for life and her willingness to risk a lot for her convictions (she got majorly injured by trying to rescue a dog from a car and has been the butt of her friends' and family's affectionate derision ever since) and broke with his family who had pressured him into taking up the same job as his father to concentrate on playing the piano which was his actual passion.
He took a year to regroup and be able to afford a future and has now returned to convince Maiko to be his muse and his love, because whenever he thinks of her he is inspired to write music. And the mangaka is clever enough to not make him a two-faced bastard: he really is as devoted and kind as he seems. He really has the feeling that Maiko saved him and would like to be the answer to her dreams as she has turned out to be the answer to his.
Things come to a head when Yukiya can not articulate the growing realisation (due to an actual rival showing up this is accelerated) that he does love Maiko as she is, more and more. She is very different from Haruka. However, he can't make himself encourage Maiko to try and find a way of exorcising the Haruka in her life - and a deeply hurt Maiko turns to the patient Shizuru who fell in love with her for her own self BEFORE she had the memories of Haruka.
Very tempting indeed, and personally? I applaud the decision the mangaka made that an emotionally hurt woman who has decided to break all ties to the love which brings her pain and doesn't seem to be returned goes with the guy who cherishes her and has a night of love - yes, the author goes there. How many men in romances (whether in books, films or on TV) haven't done that before! Why shouldn't a heroine be allowed to stray, especially for non-sordid reasons.
The whole manga is already built on the fact that there is not just one true love - otherwise Yukiya who has loved his sister-in-law since they were kids would have to suffer in agony for the rest of his long life.
The continuing caveat: WHY did the only female friend of Maiko's have to be a girl with a yen for abusive boyfriends? Giving Maiko a go-getter personality who takes no nonsense could have been done differently without detracting from the story. Every time I see her show up with a band-aid on her face, I get pissed off at that cheap shot by Nagae-sensei.
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December 20, 2016
1* the volume, where everything got wrong/disappointing for me
Ok, I accepted the idea that Haruka´s blood gave Maiko her memories, but the fact that
Although we got to know a little bit more about Maiko´s feelings towards Nagase , I must say that it was still pretty confusing - were those feelings really Maiko´s real feelings? And even in this volume the feelings of Nagase and Maiko didnt become clear - for me the author never properly explained why the main characters found each other important or attractive And then Dr. Akane appeared *facepalm*
Ok, I accepted the idea that Haruka´s blood gave Maiko her memories, but the fact that
Although we got to know a little bit more about Maiko´s feelings towards Nagase , I must say that it was still pretty confusing - were those feelings really Maiko´s real feelings? And even in this volume the feelings of Nagase and Maiko didnt become clear - for me the author never properly explained why the main characters found each other important or attractive And then Dr. Akane appeared *facepalm*
January 20, 2017
Well, I'll continue what happens next... geez...
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