 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | TOKYOPOP | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | MARIO KANEDA | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | JAPANESE / B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 192 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | OT | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 9/11/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 10/01/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
More racy adventures and comical mayhem are in store for readers of the penultimate volume of Girl’s Bravo. Noodle contests, cheerleading lessons, special cooking techniques, a magical frog, a trip to the beach , a covert operation, a summer cold, Brazilian mosquitoes, a spell gone wrong and more in the latest excitement packed volume of Girls Bravo!
As always the manga starts off innocently enough: Yukinari wants to win a noodle eating contest where the prize is a trip for him and the girls. The problem is he’s small for a guy and its men only, none of the girls can enter. To help spur him on, the girls go so far as to allow the perverted Fukuyama teach them a special cheer in hopes of helping their beloved Yukinari – that is if they don’t kill Fukuyama first for all his sexual harassment! His lecherous antics hardly stop there. When Kirie has to pass her home ec cooking re-test or else, it’s actually Fukuyama to the rescue! He does his best to teach her the culinary arts – Fukuyama style of course! Skimpy outfits and perverted techniques are all on the table for this recipe! Next a tale of a magical leprechaun frog has all the girls hunting for him so that it can grant them a wish. But Kirie has a fear of them and wouldn’t you know it, the frog seems to like her. Calamity strikes later when Siren officers Koyomi and Tomo are told by their superiors that they have to start showing results in their mission to recruit men for Siren or they’ll be fired and then they’ll have to leave Yukinari and Earth! Frantic, they plot to have everyone go to the beach and use some very risqué tactics to gain the attention of the nearby male bystanders. Can they save their jobs? All that excitement however leads to Miharu getting sick and due to being not the brightest bulb in the box, she thinks she has to hide her condition from Yukinari. In an unexpected twist, it’s a sympathetic Risa and her brother Fukuyama who help her get better. This odd twist of sweetness actually continues when Fukuyama unleashes foreign mosquitoes to bite the lovely ladies. It may seem it’s simply to get them to rip their clothes off, but the letch shows an unusually sweet and compassionate side when he reveals his true motives. Last in the line up of stories this volume is a bittersweet, heavy on the sweet, tale of Risa using her magic yet again to try to not only cure Yukinari of his girl-phobia, but win him over for her own. It results in a terrible mishap of cuteness when he is regressed back to a small child with no memory of his older life. The cute little Yukinari is too much for the girls who go giddy with him, playing and dressing him up. There’s a wonderfully touching moment between him and Risa and it shows how much she really does loves him. This mix of chaotic and racy comedy with sweet and poignant moments is what makes this harem comedy such a winning manga series. It can make you laugh and touch the heart at the same time. IN SUMMARY:
A ton of sexy comedy mixed in with tender moments makes Girl’s Bravo a smashing comedic manga series. |
