by Chica Umino
SynopsisTakemoto, a sophomore art student in Tokyo, thinks his greatest worries in life are finding ways to eat more meat and getting to class on time. But with friends like his, life is never going to be that tame.
Review
It's hard to know what to say about this series. It's off-beat, high-energy, and weird. The main character lives in a studio apartment with some friends from school, and to be honest, they're all completely nuts. One works strange jobs for ungodly amounts of money, while the others are obsessed with getting enough meat to eat. What's sad is that these characters were introduced so quickly, I can't really remember their names and only vaguely remember how they look. Add in other characters with similar names, and dark hair, and I'm confused already. Then, a cute girl named Hagumi is introduced, and a couple of characters have a crush on her, and it gets even weirder. The odd jobs guy worships Hagu like a Koropokkur (an Ainu fairy) and tries to take pictures of her carrying leaves, sitting on toadstools and even taking plaster casts of her feet. It hardly makes sense.
But as the book goes on, things start seeming a little more normal as more is explained about some characters, like the pressure Hagumi is under to perform with her art, and Mayama's (I think) ex-girlfriend Yamada is still pining for him while he's interested in another woman that he's been asked to help. It's hard to say where it might go, it has the threads of different stories that will hopefully lead somewhere. It was hard to get into at first, because it's so weird, and that's not really my style at all. I guess I'll have to check out more to see if it lives up to what it promises.
Final thought: I'll check out the next book.
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