Genshiken Volume 6 Summary & Review: Part 1

Today Genshiken volume 6 enjoyed its American release, and it is very, very good. Character development is the name of the game in this volume, and it's even funnier than the rest of the series, if that is possible. I'm going to go through chapter by chapter, doing the first half tonight. I also took all the pictures used in this myself; it was with a camera so there is often some skew in the picture. I touched them up the best I could in Photoshop: forgive me!

Ohno's jealousy is so wonderful. We rarely get to see the tsuntsun side of Ohno, so this chapter was a real treat for me. Ohno is upset that Tanaka was hiding the fact that he made a ton of costumes for Ogiue and that they were all of the lolicons Ohno is too busty to cosplay. Of course, Ogiue thinks cosplay is perverted; however, Saki convinces her to try some on.

Ogiue doesn't accept her otaku self in this chapter, but she moves towards it. She also has amusing confrontations with every female character in the series, not only Saki and Ohno, but Sasahara's imouto as well.

Madarame and Saki have it out because Madarame ignored her in public, afraid he'd be brushed off as the otaku friend. Later, they have dinner together, Madarame finally has a proper conversation with her, and confronts his feelings of jealousy. It ends in a very slice-of-lifey manner of the two silently riding the train.

Ogiue insists she won't set foot inside the "abyss of sexual desperation" that is comicfest; however, disguised, she sneaks in only to be knocked down by Ohno's humongous breasts and discovered by the rest of the Genshiken with Yaoi doujinshi sprawled out in front of her. She is so embarassed she runs away, but this later leads to her accepting that she is an Otaku!

This is the chapter I've been waiting for. Ogiue finally accepts herself and is set up to become Sasahara's girlfriend as he kindly returns her glasses and offers to help her collect the spilled doujinshi.

Well that's the first half of this little summary / review. I suggest everyone interested in Genshiken to purchase it.