Keiichi Arawi’s third CITY book isn’t as good as the last one but it still had some belly laughs. The mom waking up her family for breakfast was sooooo funny - the dad and sleeping grandpa (who’s the old guy with the hidden cameras plotting his vague revenge from the first book) kept getting hit on the head with stuff and carried on sleeping! It’s way funnier than you’d think.
The manga artist’s story is still really funny too. His new strip, Miss Jump, inspired by Nagumo’s antics (yeah I finally learned the main character’s name!) is just as nutso as his old one, Mr Bummer.
They weren’t laugh out loud funny but everything with Nagumo, Niikura and Wako was enjoyable. Niikura makes a useless folding fan to beat her unwanted roommates with before worrying over a 500 yen coin she finds. Wako (she really lives up to her name: Wako = Whacko!) on the other hand remains the delightful Phoebe of the series - her worldview is wonderfully batty.
I’m still not really into the schoolkids who fantasize about stuff or the injured rich girl, her servant and the kindly customer. The tantrum contest was just ok as was the football team’s storyline about protecting their star player.
Still, even if fewer jokes landed this time around, CITY, Volume 3 remains a decent read with enough quality humour to keep me interested in this highly original and continually intriguing series.
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