The next volume is the last, I'm running out of manga! NOOOOOO!Īnyways, this was a good installment! I was so happy that Haine finally chose Takanari! But I think it's all a setup. On to the endgame! Place your own bets, if you like. 9, closing out that part of the story, I hope.) (Haine's real teeth show up in a panel or two in v. have faded into the background, which is all to the good for this story, in my opinion. The bizarre elements like Maora's sheep, the snakes out of nowhere, Haine's false teeth (every time I think of that, it's just so odd I have to chuckle), etc. and it's pretty amazing that I haven't had any trouble sorting them out. The entire series is full of "light and darkness" motifs, public personae and people who live in their shadow, body doubles, twins, children with two mothers or two dads (not both, that would be a little too silly imo), etc.
That's actually a very clever way of making what could be a confusing story element more understandable for her audience.
In one of the volumes I read recently (I didn't mark it with a sticky note so don't remember which), Tanemura says that she gradually lightened Shizumasa's hair after it was revealed that he had a body double. This was Tanemura's fourth full-length series, I believe, and it's cool that she is expanding her horizons, trying new things, even if at times it isn't 100% successful. It goes a long way to explaining some of the more extreme content in the story, and, perhaps, some of the stumbles that have been made along the way. But "drawing what I'm not good at drawing" is my hidden agenda behind The Gentlemen's Alliance.How interesting. This chapter was full of all sorts of no-nos for me, like many of the other chapters. *we've known for quite some time that he is ill, but there's been no hint that it was cancer. I suppose it will depend on who Haine's hormones decide she is in love with in the last few pages of the last chapter. In a chapter note, Tanemura says, "Now, just because I like Takanari, it doesn't mean that Haine and Takanari will get togeth- mumble, mumble, mumble." Now I don't know if my bet from my review of the previous volume will pay out. The engagement papers, or ceremony, or whatever it was going to be, will have to wait. But wait! Shizumasa collapses suddenly! He has leukemia* and needs Takanari's bone marrow to live. Things are looking a little better for Takanari, as Shizumasa shows his wicked mustache-twirling ways and literally locks up Takanari in a basement so his engagement to Haine meets with no resistance.
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