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I was overjoyed when Kio Shimoku exhumed the corpse of Genshiken to give us a sequel to the epic adventures of the otaku of Shiio University but-- Recently I'm getting kinda bothered by the road that this manga is taking.
Let's be serious, I loved Genshiken because it was an informative manga about otaku, where we readers could get to know more about all otaku things and develop a healthy feeling of comradeship. Genshiken was the first manga to make us otaku feel all "warm and fuzzy" about each other: it was about the development of human relationships among people who tended to be introverted because they couldn't chat about their passions and emotions like other people do: let's face it, to talk about the awesomeness of a PVC figure, it's not something that you can do with the same obviousness that you use to talk about the last movie that you watched or the weather, or, I don't know, how ugly would get Sarkozy's daughter if she took after her father.
The way the protagonist got more and more confident because of the friendship that he developed with his fellows, and how everyone managed to get over their flaws because of human interaction is like an essay on humankind evolution.
Now, Genshiken Niidaime is just one of those crappy awkward love commedies (the first one that comes to my mind is the horrible No Bra) that the world doesn't need.
Ok, I indulged myself with Hato-kun and how well he'd be with Madarame-san, and how naughty would be Kosaka in his maid outfit, but that's just fanservice, I'm old enough to see it, no :/ ? Where's the development, the IDENTIFICATION..? 'Til now the only thing that we're wondering if who's going to get paired up with Hato-kun, and we all know that when a manga focus on such things, it tends to be crappy :/
So, I'm sorry, but if I won't get a chapter about online auctions or the joys of collecting thousand versions of the same figure soon, I'm going to drop this and remove Genshiken from my list of favourites.
Let's be serious, I loved Genshiken because it was an informative manga about otaku, where we readers could get to know more about all otaku things and develop a healthy feeling of comradeship. Genshiken was the first manga to make us otaku feel all "warm and fuzzy" about each other: it was about the development of human relationships among people who tended to be introverted because they couldn't chat about their passions and emotions like other people do: let's face it, to talk about the awesomeness of a PVC figure, it's not something that you can do with the same obviousness that you use to talk about the last movie that you watched or the weather, or, I don't know, how ugly would get Sarkozy's daughter if she took after her father.
The way the protagonist got more and more confident because of the friendship that he developed with his fellows, and how everyone managed to get over their flaws because of human interaction is like an essay on humankind evolution.
Now, Genshiken Niidaime is just one of those crappy awkward love commedies (the first one that comes to my mind is the horrible No Bra) that the world doesn't need.
Ok, I indulged myself with Hato-kun and how well he'd be with Madarame-san, and how naughty would be Kosaka in his maid outfit, but that's just fanservice, I'm old enough to see it, no :/ ? Where's the development, the IDENTIFICATION..? 'Til now the only thing that we're wondering if who's going to get paired up with Hato-kun, and we all know that when a manga focus on such things, it tends to be crappy :/
So, I'm sorry, but if I won't get a chapter about online auctions or the joys of collecting thousand versions of the same figure soon, I'm going to drop this and remove Genshiken from my list of favourites.
