Postby Mangafanatic » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:51 am
I just read the first two volumes, and TANPOPO IS SO CUTE!!!
I like this series. There are only a few things I was a little "Come on, why'd you have to stick that in there!?" about.
They are as follows:
[spoiler= Imadoki. I know these aren't really spoilers but they do give away a few things]
1. Towards the beginning of the first volume, Tanpopo cut her thigh and Koki binds it with a handkerchief. Later when in front of a bunch of students, he acts as if he doesn't know her so, in an attempt to jog his memory, he lifts the hem of her skirt and points at the bandage he put on. Unfortuneately, she gets a little zealous, and we not only see her bandage but a little of her underwear as well. *Osaka is not amused*
2. Later on in volume two, Tanpopo stays out in the rain and comes down with a fever. She passes out and Tim is obligued to carry her home. Now, being the quick thinking fellow that he is, he realizes that is simply isn't healthy for a sick girl to be in wet clothings. So what's a guy to do but change her out of her wet clothes*sarcasm sarcasm*? We don't see this happen (atleast, I don't think we do), but it was still unfortuneate.
3. In the second volume, there is a bad girl who Tanpopo tries to befriend. This girl quite clearly has no interest in having a relationship with Tanpopo for many reason-- on of which is that Tanpopo is a virgin, a fact which she repeatedly taunts. Later, the bad girl makes references to playing with guys and "going clubbing and to hotel rooms". Later, one of the characters in discovered to be pregnant, and *surpirse* she's not married. The guy who is the father of the baby makes a phone call to his father and sheepishly says something to the effect of "I did it again." (Insinuating this isn't the first girl he's gotten pregnant)
4. A little later, Tanpopo mets the bad girl and her gang in the hall way of a night club and the mean chick tells her gang something along the lines of "She's here because she doesn't want to be a virgin anymore." One of them tries to rip off Tanpopo's shirt, but he's interrupted.
[/spoiler]
Well, that's all I can think of right now. If anybody wants to add anything-- feel free. Overall, I like this series alot. Tanpopo is nice to everyone, from the spiteful prep to the school's phsychotic stalker. If you can handle the things I mentioned above, you shuld read the first two volumes of this series. Very sweet.
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