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Title: Love Potion #9
Title: Love Potion #9
Series:
Oh My Goddess #4
Author: Kosuke Fujishima
Rating:
4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages:
117
Format: Paper Edition
Synopsis:
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Sayoko and her cousin Aoshima continue their scheming to break up Bell and Kei so that they can have their respective picks. Of course, with Urd running interference and Bell's love of Kei, things never turn out for the dastardly duo like they had planned.
There
are also several instances of completely ridiculous things being
overlooked and ignored. How do you bulldoze a clubhouse that is also
a mechanics garage, overnight and have NO repercussions? You really
have to enter the spirit of the manga, ie, campy and silly and just
flow with it.
The
other major plot point is the introduction of Mara, demon first
class. While a very androgynous looking fellow, Mara is indeed a
fellow. Somehow he's tied to a Demon music cd and he ends up in
cahoots with Sayoko, promising to get rid of Bell so Sayoko can be
Queen of the Campus and have Kei all to herself.
While
Mara is foiled at every point, he's not banished and it's obvious
he's here to stay and cause nothing but problems.Yet another
recurring character. The character list is really starting to grow.
My
Thoughts:
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Every
chapter was once again a single episodic adventure. Now, most of them
revolved around various schemes by Sayoko and Aoshima so the whole
book kind of felt more like a romantic comedy than anything.
I
can't really remember what part Mara ends up playing in future
volumes, but I think he's the beginning of the multi-volume story
arc. It's also our first introduction to the opposite of Belldandy's
family. Fujishima is obviously thinking ahead and planning on opening
up this world for a full on experience. Having extra powerful beings,
on opposite sides of the moral spectrum, is the obvious way to go.
Urd
is involved, but not nearly so much as in the previous book. She
really is eye candy and comedic relief. The funny thing is, she
“represents” eye candy more than she actually is. That makes for
a surprisingly clean “smexy” fun drawings without going anywhere
near smut. Of course, this is still male driven fantasy, so you get
little bits like this. And how cute is a mini-Urd anyway?
Now
on a different note. I am reading the original Darkhorse release
manga. I am finding that the chapters are out of order in regards to
the original intent and that that has been rectified with the
re-release of the OMG manga in it's original numbered format. Not
that I'm going to go out and suddenly buy volumes 1-20 just to be a
completist but I am realizing that I'd recommend people start with
the new numbered versions and not these “Titled” Darkhorse
editions.
★★★★☆
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