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OTOBOKU: MAIDENS ARE FALLING FOR ME VOL. 2: DRAG DILEMMAS |
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | MEDIA BLASTERS | | | ▪ | ASPECT RATIO: | | 1.78:1 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN | | | ▪ | AUDIO: | | JAPANESE DD 2.0 W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES | | | ▪ | RUNNING TIME: | | 125 MIN | | | ▪ | RATING: | | 13+ | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 08/19/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 09/30/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | RACHEL BENTHAM |
Drag dilemmas indeed! Mizuho (who’s really a guy) is sure taking on his role as a girl at an all girls’ dorm with dedication! And with all sorts of dilemmas! First up he’s met with a conundrum when gym class equals swim class. Now if he gets into a girls swimsuit, the cat will really be out of the bag! So Mariya comes up with a ridiculous excuse for him, but Takako is on top of Mizuho and that riles Mariya up something fierce! The two challenge each other to a swim competition and it gets way out of hand! Mizuho at last finds out the source of the long standing feud between these two firebrands. And in doing so, he and Takako grow a little closer…hmmm…. It won’t be Mizuho’s only run-in with Takako. October arrives and school regulations say cute Kana’s bow has got to go. But it has sentimental value (wait until you hear her tear jerker tale of woe!) and so Mizuho comes to the rescue and goes up directly against Takako. By the end of it he saves Kana from getting bullied and unintentionally confuses Takako who can’t decide if the girl she knows as Mizuho is a friend or her enemy! A little more angst enters the picture when Yukari, the eternally peppy girl loses her pep and the entire dorm is trying to find out what has brought the happy girl so down. But the real story is with the school festival. Mizuho is pressured into taking a led in the school play as Romeo and it’s Takako who is playing Juliet! The play has a kiss in it and it has more than one girl a twitter. Mariya is seeing green, Takako is beet red, and Mizuho is ever kind and eternally clueless! A love triangle may have just formed but only Mariya knows Mizuho’s real gender. And who does Mizuho really like? The romance is about to hit the fan in gender bending style in this fun and romantic volume!
EXTRAS:
DVD extras include clean opening and closing animation (Winter uniforms version) along with previews of other anime titles and the WEB Radio segment original to the Japanese DVD release that has voice actresses Yuko Goto (Ichiko) and Miyu Matsuki (Shion) videoed while doing a radio segment of all sorts of silly antics and fun that runs for nearly 40 minutes!
IN SUMMARY:
Learn more about the girls around Mizuho and see the maidenly love ignite in the second and penultimate volume of OtoBoku! |
