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Maya Mineo: Patalliro! vol. 19
Patalliro! (this being the official spelling, though you'll also find the variations Patariro and Patarillo) is a series about crazy kids who happen to be kings, gay MI6 agents, and bad puns. I don't really care to explain the premise, so if you must know go to the Aestheticism page.
Volume 19 picks up where bunko volume 10 left off (which is the last bunko volume I own), so of course I've been very eager to get my hands on it. I accidentally also picked up volumes 17 and 18, which I had read before, but let's not touch that (*sob*). Bancolan (that would be the gay MI6 agent) meets his arch enemy Keen (that would be his uncle), and Malaich (that would be Bancolan's former-assassin boy lover) has gotten over the whole "I'm not good enough for Bancolan! Bwaha!" thing that Etrange (that would be Patalliro's mother) brought on.
That paragraph has too many paranteses.
As said above I don't enjoy Maya Mineo's long series so much, and I don't enjoy his action, either, but this arc has enough of Patalliro popping in to disturb the seriousness, so it's a-okay. Disney (that would be the hired gun going after Bancolan) was lovely in his dead-panned stupidity, too. Additionally, I hadn't seen it coming that Godot (that would be the spy Patalliro hired to ... oh, shut up) was that guy ...
Category: Shojo/ladies | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM