There aren’t any really bad stories in CITY Volume 5, there just aren’t that many standout ones. I only laughed once – when Tsuru drew on his dead dad’s nose and said “Smell you later!” – and a couple stories were pretty good. The girls enjoying the shlooping feeling of drinking tapioca milk tea (it’s amazing what passes as a “story” in this series!) and Ms Arama’s day off where she sleeps it away, then tries to cram in all the activities she wanted to do in the evening. Both are typical of Keiichi Arawi’s style: amusing and original.
I didn’t dislike any of the other stories, though they weren’t that amazing either. The girls discuss photography; Wako makes a contending newspaper strip to Mr Bummer called Mr Delight; Tsuru gets the Nine Gates at Mahjong (which apparently means you’ll die!); a kid playwright and his toys try to get Nagumo to star in his latest masterpiece; Niikura gets hit on (literally!) by the local football side; Izumi has some close calls with injury; the girls wish upon a shooting star; Nagumo and Tsuru play the horses.
Moments here and there in the stories made me smile – Izumi imagining the life of a squid in her takoyaki, the bonkers conclusion to the horse-racing – but otherwise they were just fairly ok. Not boring but not that interesting either – and that’s CITY, Volume 5 for the most part. Still pleasant but not as great as the title can be.
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