Kekkaishi Vol 12-13

[meganbmoore]

Comments

[meganbmoore]

Leaving Tokine behind was incredibly "What? Really?" It felt very out of character for the manga. I suspect Yellow Tanabe did it since the only real purpose of the rescue squad was to name a few members and they weren't going to do any fighting in the end, and he could also have Tokine holding up the entrance at the other end, but still...

I kinda want to hug Sen.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, I typed up the comment as I was closing up at workm hence the lack of "s/he."

It does seem to be rather editorially dictated, doesn't it?

I think it was more touching than those scenes normally are because Yoshimori is more generally nice and sweet-and unannoying-than most shounen action leads, and his whole "I must get stronger" thing comes from the fact that she has been protecting him his whole life, and his incompetence led to her being scarred for life while protecting him.

[worldserpent]

Frankly, I think I felt at this part that the author was not really sure what to do about Tokine. I stopped reading Kekkaishi after reading up to around the end of this arc, so I don't know whether the author gets a new idea, though. (Also I didn't like it enough to keep reading on)

[meganbmoore]

The rules of shounen say that, now that there are more males, she must be sidelined. But that's very OOC for the manga as written so far.

[worldserpent]

Eh, with a lot of shounen, there is a complete lack of consistency, so I'm not sure if I would even speak of it in terms of OOC issues. In general it kind of annoyed me that the hero's approach to fighting was privileged so much above Tokine's, but then it's par for the course with shounen. (I think I did review it in my journal where I complained a lot about my various issues, but I'm not sure where I stopped, so it might spoil you)