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Ayahana Min: Akazukin Chacha vol. 08
I'm not interested in the anime Akazukin Chacha, but I've read the manga since it began to run in Ribon, and I've always loved it. It's one of the veeeeeery few Ribon manga that actually crack me up (the others being High Score, the legendary works of Okada Amin, and early Chibi-Maruko-chan). The cuteness of this manga has a lot to do with it; while Okada Amin cracks me up with her psyched-out art that matches her stories, Ayahana cracks me up because she has extremely cute characters (like dog!Riiya) doing extremely stupid things.
I don't have favorite characters as such in Chacha (Seravy comes closest), but my favorite episodes tend to be those with Riiya. In this volume, we have the classic "Riiya needs a vaccination but refuses to go to the doctor's" episode and its sequel, the "Chuchu sets traps in the entire school" episode in which Riiya reveals he's wearing sentai-briefs, and the "Shiine-chan's dad gets mistaken for a kidnapper" episode in which Riiya is just so stupid and cute I almost went into a seizure.
The other character I find funny (though in a disturbing way), Seravy, also stars in a episode in this volume. Dorris makes a cake which will make everyone who eats it hate Seravy, thinking he will be with her (eh, him, actually) if he feels lonely enough. What does Seravy do when Chacha and the other kids don't want to be with him anymore? Something really, really scary. I'm afraid ...
Did I mention I love this series?
Category: Shojo/ladies | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM