The voting took place between February 3-8th and the mot ranked manga was Nami Sano’s Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto (Sakamoto Desu Ga?) (Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.Last week, about 1,800 readers voted on a pole on Anime! Anime!’s website asking them what mangas they wanted to see turned into an anime. Not only that, she was attempting to molest a teenage boy - not something I'd consider good comedy material. Yoshinobu's mother struck me as a pitiful woman, and I disliked that the volume seemed to be asking readers to laugh at her and her efforts to corner Sakamoto. The first part of this volume was particularly awful. I love that stuff in Black Butler, but it doesn't work for me at all here. Technically, Sakamoto and the things he does aren't that different from the occasional humorous bits in Black Butler, where Sebastian accomplishes seemingly impossible feats in order to properly serve his master. I wonder if a different artist would change things. I'm sorry, but Sakamoto makes my skin crawl, and I can't bring myself to laugh at the situations he deals with. I had similar issues while reading this volume.
I mean, this series is supposed to be a comedy right? I'm not misunderstanding? I disliked the first volume, which I felt had too much an "uncanny valley" feeling to it to truly be funny. Then there's an incident involving a delinquent trying to pick a fight with Sakamoto and ending up in a bizarre push fight against him. As they try to find him, they hear about his past mysterious exploits. The volume ends with a group of delinquents pursuing Sakamoto and always just missing him. Then there are a few shorter episodes: dealing with a slug in cooking class, drawing a classmate in a way that manages to be both flattering and insulting, and saving a classmate during a fire drill (?). Then Sakamoto outwits a teacher bent on believing he's trouble, even managing to add the teacher to his list of admirers due to a kind act he performs. Sakamoto tutors Yoshinobu (the bullied kid from volume 1) while deftly avoiding and finally defusing Yoshinobu's amorous mother.
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