Das teuflische Engelein ist bereit, ihr neues Zuhause zu erobern…

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Eine richtige Diva macht eben auch beim Bauen ihrem Ruf alle Ehre…

Und so durfte ich mich zunächst durch ein Meer von kleinen Löchern und Graten kämpfen. Am Schlimmsten betroffen waren ausgerechnet die eh schon sehr zerbrechlichen Haarsträhnen und das Muster ihres Kleides.. nicht sehr nervenschonende Arbeiten an einem 1/8 Kit.  Doch es geht vorran und so hat die junge Dame ihre erste Farbe gesehn

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Erreichte mich am Wochenende in Form von Urd, Göttin der Liebe. Sie ist meine erste Figur aus Oh my Goddess und ein Auftragskit

Die durchtriebenste der Schwestern kommt aus dem Hause VOLKS und hat eine zarte Größe von kaum 20cm (scale 1/8), trotzdem ahnt man auch hier ihr herausforderndes Wesen. Sie soll nach Vorgabe jedoch nicht in Blau sondern in der eleganteren lila / schwarz / goldenen Version erstrahlen. Kleiner Wehmutstropfen am Kit ist die unterbrochene Kleidkante und die leider sehr klein geratenen Augen aber das tut dem edlen Gesamteindruck keinen Abbruch – ich freu mich drauf, ihr Farbe geben zu können Erstmal steht jedoch Spachelei an

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Kosuke Fujishima – Dark Horse – 2009 – 39+ volumes

I reviewed this for the weekly Manga Minis column at Popcultureshock, so you can check out my review over there.

Admittedly, I like this series, and I tend to say the same thing about it every time.  But after being vaguely disappointed with the last volume and feeling a bit out of sorts while reading it, I was pretty happy with a return to basics in this one.  We get weird vehicles, we get a not-quite-race, we get meddling, we get the characters being themselves with just a smidge more interaction betwee Keiichi and Belldandy than is usual, which is certainly a welcome change.

It’s just a nice series to read.  I like all the characters, I like Oh My Goddess, and that’s all there is to it.

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Kosuke Fujishima – Dark Horse – 2009 – 39+ volumes

Wow, what a weird volume.  The most notable thing about it was probably how out-of-character Belldandy seemed.  Now, normally Belldandy hides her jealousy and protectiveness of Keiichi pretty well behind a solid wall of naivete, but here… well, within the first few pages, she flat-out tells the Gate “no” when she asks Keiichi to teach her about romance, and then admits to being very narrow-hearted when it comes to Keiichi.  This was… this was just beyond weird.  It sounded very wrong coming from her.  Usually she would find some polite way to turn the Gate down, or find some way of avoiding the subject.  Here… she just says no, and then admits to being selfish.  What happened, Belldandy?  Did character development happen while I wasn’t looking?

The next story was a confrontation between the Goddesses and a species of water-dwelling creatures called Lorelai (a type of German river mermaid apparently unique to a bend in the Rhine river).  They wage war, and I thought this would turn into one of those nice, long, epic storylines that used to come up but hasn’t in a while.  It, uh… doesn’t quite pan out that way.  There is a misunderstanding.  There’s lots more of Belldandy acting strangely out-of-character about Keiichi, but to be fair, the Queen Lorelai is trying to steal him, and is being rather rude about it.  Belldandy is pretty obvious about a kiss at the end of the story, which is incredible given the fact this is Oh My Goddess, and the two of them have kissed maybe three times total.  Even more incredibly, it was given out of jealousy.  I’ll say it again: what?!

Keiichi continues to be a wimp. It’s good that some things never change.  He’s got a kind of reverse mullet going on lately, which I haven’t mentioned and probably should.  It’s the same hairstyle he’s always had, just with more detail, and quite frankly, it’s business in the back and party in the front.

The other weird thing about this volume is that Peorth is gone.  I didn’t think that would actually happen.  Maybe she’ll be back.  For as little as Urd and Skuld contributed to this volume, you wouldn’t think another Goddess would have made a difference, but I miss Peorth.  I like her a lot.

Yeah… this volume just made me feel uncomfortable.