Kobato Drop 22 a and b

They better be hiding Fujimoto's face or so help me...

Dear Kobato Manga,

Please stop coming out so slowly and such few pages. It makes Tenchi a very sad blogger. I am sure other CLAMP fans are sad and frustrated with the slow pacing on the releases too. Of course it truly is the fault of the magazine people in regards to the pages. And I guess no one wants the ladies of CLAMP to pass out from being overworked. Still…sadness people. Sadness all over my face.

I was going to wait until this arc was over but that might be forever in Kobato time. So I shall do it today since TV sucks and the Fall Anime Season hasn’t started yet. So here we go, Drop 22 a and b.

Love Tenchi

Fujimoto is all upset because the kids have told him that Kobato has gone off to see Okiura. It seems like forever since I have typed those two names. Also it seems as if Kobato has run off to see Okiura a million years ago since they have been talking about Angel Kobato for the past 5 months. So yeah it is weird typing all this. DISCONNECT PEOPLE!

Yay for honesty!

So Kobato gets to Okiura who muses that they are meeting in this area because his man (the one who passed out from his appendix 2 years ago…) was worried for Kobato. Because he is Yakuza. That is a pretty big thing to admit to so I am surprised he said it. Of course Okiura is a cocky person so maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise. And it really isn’t a surprise that Kobato acted like like yakuza was his last name and not some scary gang term. Because Kobato is special.

MOG didn't see that coming!!!

Kobato breaks it down (really simply). She asks if Okiura will stop trying to close the school down. He humors her and is like oh okay as long as I get my money. Okiura makes it clear that no matter how hard Fujimoto works it will never be enough to pay him back. I am not sure if that was him being mean or realistic. Sorta hard to tell as Okiura is going to turn out to be misunderstood man but whatever.

Deep down this is about love people!

Fujimoto is running around town looking all frantic when he runs into Takashi. I don’t know WHY Fujimoto took forever in saying who he was looking for. But maybe he thought Takashi didn’t know what Kobato’s name was. And he did go on and on about her faults. However he did that because he really likes her so I guess it makes it cute. Sorta. In a way. If my husband said oh Tenchi is a clumsy girl who is late to everything and talks too much I am sure he would say it with love. Or back it up with some nice things about me. But Fujimoto has a hard time with being honest so you know.

Be nicer to your awesome friend!!!

I keep forgetting that Takashi hasn’t spent much time with Kobato in the manga. The anime was slightly different in that aspect which is sorta why I would have been okay with a TakashixKobato relationship. But here he knows Fujimoto cares deeply for Kobato and he focuses on finding Kobato as fast as possible. He also knows Fujimoto will deny having feelings for Kobato so he is like no, we aren’t dealing with that bull right now let’s just find Kobato. We need more Takashi!

And moving right along...

Drop b (see we are already through the first chapter!!!) Kobato agrees that she will do what she can to earn money for Okiura but doesn’t think it is much. Okiura interprets Kobato words as her not being able to do whatever he asks but it is really her thinking she can’t do whatever he asks. Which it doesn’t matter because we all know he is implying that Kobato should be a prostitute so you know. Kobato can be confused about it and Okiura can be vague about it because really the thought of Kobato being in that position makes me sad.

How dare you break through my facade!

Kobato changes the subject much to my happiness. She asks if paying back the debt will heal his heart, if it will make him happy. That is the first time Okiura looks worried or has an expression on his face other than smuggy punk. Kobato goes on and on about how she feels when she heals hearts and how she understands happiness. She asks Okiura what his happiness is. I am sure that is the first time in a long time that someone has asked Okiura that question. He probably deserves that but hey it will get him thinking folks.

That was slightly rude and unexpected....

THEN whoosh we are going to see Ginsei and Kohaku. WHY!!!! Move the storyline along people!!! But Ginsei shows up in her garden while she is watering the plants. She makes a joke that she used to accidentally Shuichiro because she couldn’t do the spell right. Ginsei seems to not care about people’s personal business and history because he asks which version of Shuichiro did she mess the spell up on. Nice Ginsei, nice.

Human feelings, love, what?!

Before we can find out why Ginsei is there we get a scene of an angry Fujimoto running through town. He is acting pissed that Kobato ran off and that Okiura is always responsible for taking his…wait his? The world HIS startles Fujimoto. I think he is starting to realize that he has feelings! Feelings of love and stuff. Scary people. But it is actually cute.

Well Ginsei...I guess you can be there to pick up the pieces.

Then we go back to Ginsei and Kohaku for one whole page which is a super waste in my opinion. But he comments again on Kohaku’s personal life, like what if the new version of Shuichiro didn’t desire her? TWIST THE KNIFE HARDER!!! Really Ginsei is trying to piece together why Ioryogi would help out this Kobato when it would kill angel Kobato in the process. So yeah people, it really had nothing to do with Kohaku and he probably hurt her for no reason.

XO I demand more manga pages! More people, I am greedy for CLAMP! But yeah I wish Kobato got released on a more regular time table, it is hard to stay connected to the storyline this way. :(