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Reading the second volume of a manga spinoff of the Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki novels, I did wonder about saying something more about it, only to grapple with how to lead off and whether one volume of manga offers less to talk about than one volume of even a “light novel.” Then, the chance to say something about something else didn’t show up on schedule, and I picked up the second volume of Minami Namami wants to Shine again.
After being offered a chance she hadn’t had in the novels to try modeling, Minami gets to interact with an established model but also winds up grappling with a tossed-off comment the chance came from her own mother. She grapples so much with worries of “nepotism” that I did start wondering if this “story about an attention-catching secondary character” was skipping past a part of her that had caught my own attention to begin with. When Minami gets back to school, though, she does start putting on her “life of the classroom” show again. Along the way, she interacts a bit more with the main character of his own story and starts calling Tomozaki “Brain” like she does there. I did get to wondering about Minami’s friend Tama not showing up to offer presumably unvarnished comments on what’s happening, even if Tama shows up among several pages of “Cast Review” four-panel strips at the very end of the volume.
One other thing I had chewed on while reading this volume was whether Bana Yoshida’s artwork had seemed to match the original illustrations quite as well as the first volume had left me thinking; that was somehow unusual but in an unfortunate way. Picking it up again to refresh a few thoughts did improve my disposition there, though.
After being offered a chance she hadn’t had in the novels to try modeling, Minami gets to interact with an established model but also winds up grappling with a tossed-off comment the chance came from her own mother. She grapples so much with worries of “nepotism” that I did start wondering if this “story about an attention-catching secondary character” was skipping past a part of her that had caught my own attention to begin with. When Minami gets back to school, though, she does start putting on her “life of the classroom” show again. Along the way, she interacts a bit more with the main character of his own story and starts calling Tomozaki “Brain” like she does there. I did get to wondering about Minami’s friend Tama not showing up to offer presumably unvarnished comments on what’s happening, even if Tama shows up among several pages of “Cast Review” four-panel strips at the very end of the volume.
One other thing I had chewed on while reading this volume was whether Bana Yoshida’s artwork had seemed to match the original illustrations quite as well as the first volume had left me thinking; that was somehow unusual but in an unfortunate way. Picking it up again to refresh a few thoughts did improve my disposition there, though.