Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Love*Com Continued

Aaaand it looks like the author of Love*Com intends to do exactly what I feared by making her characters conform to gender norms despite their "flaws" of being too tall and too short. Awesome. Well at least I made it to Volume 3 without getting disgusted?

I was initially intrigued by the entrance of Risa's childhood friend Haruka, a boy with a girl's name who liked girls' things and was always getting picked on. I happen to like girly-boys very much, but manga is never, ever kind to them. Anyway, Haruka developed a crush/obsession with Risa because she always saved him as a child. He confesses this to her, but right as this happens a dog comes up and scares them. Ootani comes out of nowhere and saves them, yelling about how Risa is still a woman even if she's a giant and still needs to be protected. And Haruka ends up saying that even though Ootani is short, he's still manly and that he himself must become more manly so he can protect Risa like a good heteronormative couple.

Sheesh.

Well, it's still not bad enough for me to entirely put down, but it's not looking good. I'll keep on reading to see if it redeems itself or just gets worse. Stay tuned for more updates. 

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