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Maya Mineo: Rashaanu! vol. 1
What Maya Mineo wrote before he hit a goldmine with Patalliro. Actually the structure of those two series are pretty similar, so I don't know why Rashaanu ended after eight volumes and Patalliro continued to well over 70 volumes (it's still going, and is the longest running shojo manga in history).
Rashaanu is the son of a wealthy Indian businessman, and has ... an odd personality, let's leave it at that. He also falls in love extremely easily (with both men and women), and is always talked into helping out those he falls in love with from criminal/financial/etc. trouble. Then they dump him. And that's the running joke. In every single episode.
That sounded cynical, but I really just adore this manga anyway. The individual plots of the episodes are intriguing (if sometimes contrived), and the dead-panned humour of Rashaanu gets me every single time. Not a manga for everyone (the art probably picks the audience, too), but Maya Mineo is my eternal hero.
Category: Shojo/ladies | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM