Great Turning Point But Questionable Cliffhanger
The milestone 200th Chapter focused on Kiyoko and why she wants to be Student Council President. A reason that makes sense… Kinda.
Strange. From the beginning it seemed at least to me her whole motivation for being Student Council President was to change the school. Make it more accessible to people like her.
Specifically people with germaphobia issues. But after an awkward attempt by Rumiko to make friends with Kiyoko, the reason is made clear… Setting up the obvious conflict to come.
Rumiko asks Kiyoko why she wants to be Student Council President. After all she needs good campaign promises and a strong reason why to vote. So Kiyoko, who wasn’t going to answer, answers.
Why? Because it’s cool… No not in the vague Bill & Ted way. She thinks it’s cool because she has come to admire the present Student Council President. Her no nonsense approach to leading made Kiyoko a fan.
So if course Najimi knows the entire Student Council. If course she can walk Kiyoko and everyone in whenever they want to meet them. Why? So Kiyoko can be crushed by this revelation.
The revelation that her idol, and the lot of the Student Counvil? They’re a bunch of slobs that Jack Klugman as his Odd Couple persons would reject on sight alone. Seriously why.
We’re any of you surprised by this reveal? Hope not. This reveal was so clearly telegraphed and foreshadowed I would have been more surprised if the series creator didn’t pull this card on us.
The whole point of this full meeting is that the present Student Body President is so nonchalant it’d be a miracle of she survived long enough to be voted out of office.
Seriously. Her eating and drinking habits alone should kill her from contamination of some kind! Why is she not dead yet? Let alone the rest of the group? Is this an Animal Farm reference to corrupt pigs??
Anyway by now you realize this whole chapter is some blatant Don’t Meet Your Heroes commentary. Just played out with obvious foreshadowing, and say to clear results before it even happened.
As far as the gang is concerned? They think that Kiyoko is going to drop out of the race. Really. If she was going to drop out then it wouldn’t have been a cliffhanger end, nor would the winner had been hidden on the cover of the volume.
Maybe she will drop out. But if this writer is truly as great as we know he is? She will dig in and find new motivations to win. Guess we will find out if that is the case… Oh wait. Review update.
Hey. The stupid Comixology app died. Not that it will slow my reviews. I’ll do it through Kindle. But wow… Why Amazon. Why… Sigh. Anyway see you tomorrow.
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