The Wallflower: Volume 27

by Tomoko Hayakawa, 162 pages

Embarrassed by the weakness she showed in front of Kyôhei at the end of last volume, Sunako freaks out and runs away to avoid having to see his sparkly person...and ends up working at a maid café filled with otaku. Also this time around, Sunako's susceptibility to spirit possession takes a new twist when her new tenant turns out to be a nicer person than she is; Sunako learns that eating nothing but ice cream all day while sitting on a huge block of ice is probably not the best way to deal with the sweltering weather; and playboy Ranmaru and innocent bystander Sunako get kidnapped by ransom- and revenge-seeking followers of one of his many, many exes. You know, just the usual.

Hee hee. Kyôhei and Sunako have had a lot more awkward moments lately, which makes me snicker. They may or may not ever get together, but either way I'm happy watching the silliness--whatever works for them works for me. And, yay, Princess (Ranmaru's open-hearted, intrepid fiancée) gets some acknowledgement from the one she loves. He always puts her off because he doesn't think he deserves her, but she's a stubborn girl. It also amuses me how helpless the boys are (or think they are, the spoiled whiners) when the girls are absent. But watching Kyôhei nearly take himself and half the kitchen out when he's so desperate for fried shrimp that he risks trying to make it himself and causes an exploding grease fire?--pretty priceless. :P