ERASE the Cheerleader, Save the Oofuri World!
This face is horrible! HORRIBLE!!
I've been feeling cheated and horrified from the moment I saw the cover for Oofuri Vol. 11 but since everybody was awing and wowing and generally condescending to Higuchi's lousy ways, I restrained myself. But now book in hand and face up close, I just can't take it. The emotion-filled face on my icon was one to make me fall in love with an entire series. The viscous face of this girl looks right out of a melting nazis scene. You know which one.
Check out the previous covers and you won't find such a deplorable example of how much she's losing it.
I have been overall disappointed in Asa Higuchi for months but I didn't want to admit it to myself -although my lack of updates and fangirling on Oofuri must have been indicative to you. It adds up that I didn't have much room in my priority-re-sorting head until now to reflect on why something that I liked so much has come to suck big time, almost as big as the span of time we have to wait between chapters for the zero-excitement crap we are being delivered.
Since this is all a matter of personal opinions, I leave you my long-restrained feelings below the cut, splattered over screencaps from the infamous lunch scene in Alien, the 8th passenger. It spoils almost EVERYTHING from volume 11 on and since I have personified myself in the character portrayed by John Hurt, if you know what happens to him, it might hurt your feelings in more than a way. Proceed with care and, if you do... I hope you'll easily recognize every character's lines by their respective colors. You'll know what I mean.
::End credits roll, a song begins to play::
I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed lying dead naked on the kitchen table floor
Illusion never changed into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You're a little late (this month's Afternoon hasn't arrived yet!), I'm already torn...
Natalie Imbruglia, Torn
Funny how the Japanese group Tokio did a cover (?) of this song in which they sing at the end, in English: "People are like parasitic plants..." Aaaah, everything gets connected somehow.
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