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* [[ledge]]: Does it bother anyone else that, once Keitaro comes back from America, he's basically just Seta 2? (Are you allowed to have a character who is an [[Expy]] of another character in ''the same title''?) If I were Naru I'd be pissed that I got over my crush to fall in love with this new guy, and when he comes back from not having seen him for six months, he's exactly like the crush I got over instead of the guy I fell in love with. Although I guess from her vantage point she's getting the best of both worlds. She gets her crush who is already in love with her. Still, that interpretation makes her ''incredibly'' shallow, which I don't think was the impression I was supposed to get. Yes, I was able to handle things going into the outrageous in the second half, with mecha-turtles, impossibly effective disguise masters, [[Macross Missile Massacre|MacrossMissileMassacres]] and giant fleets of airships, but the more Keitaro acted like Seta, the more it bothered me. I found that the parts I liked the most were when he and Naru were ''not'' involved in Wacky Hijinks where he had to act like Seta, not because of Wacky Hijinks, but because they were just hanging around Hinata House or walking around town where and still acted like Keitaro.

** I agree actually. I preferred Keitaro prior to the end of volume 11. I liked how he had to learn to deal with all of the Hinata Housers who outclassed him in pretty much every way. When he comes back everyone wants him.

** I don't. Naru was already in love with Keitaro before he went to America and became more like Seta (she realizes she's in love with him as soon as the Okinawa arc or the airport date chapter). When he returned her feelings towards him remained exactly the same, with only a few off-hand comments to his newfound confidence. In the end, this confidence was necessary to HIM, since it made him able to chase Naru to the end of Japan and finally get her to admit her feelings.

** The second he came back with the Seta glasses I had been keeping that in mind. In a story telling wise 11 volume of getting outclassed by everyone seems to get old. Anymore and the readers might actually give up on Keitaro. Increasing Keitaro's stats isn't a bad move, however it does gets weird when the entire house wanted him and what pissed me off was that Mutusmi on the other hand became Sarah-Status after the time-skip.

* Something that I never got over was the big secret plot of finding out who Keitaro's childhood sweetheart was. Yeah, that's great to keep that a mystery until the very end, but Mutsumi outright ''told'' them near the end of the 7th volume!

She just told them! And they remain clueless up until the very end of the series. No wonder they can't get into Tokyo U if they can't connect the dots that are shoved under their noses!

** [[Poor Communication Kills]]. It's one of the staples of this manga. Remember when Keitaro almost read Naru's diary in volume 2 but got interrupted and only managed to one year later, despite nothing too important being written in it? That's another pretty huge example.

 

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