This was Tanemura's fourth full-length series, I believe, and it's cool that she is expanding her horizons, trying new things, even if at times it isn't 100% successful. It goes a long way to explaining some of the more extreme content in the story, and, perhaps, some of the stumbles that have been made along the way. But "drawing what I'm not good at drawing" is my hidden agenda behind The Gentlemen's Alliance.How interesting. This chapter was full of all sorts of no-nos for me, like many of the other chapters. *we've known for quite some time that he is ill, but there's been no hint that it was cancer. I suppose it will depend on who Haine's hormones decide she is in love with in the last few pages of the last chapter. In a chapter note, Tanemura says, "Now, just because I like Takanari, it doesn't mean that Haine and Takanari will get togeth- mumble, mumble, mumble." Now I don't know if my bet from my review of the previous volume will pay out. The engagement papers, or ceremony, or whatever it was going to be, will have to wait. But wait! Shizumasa collapses suddenly! He has leukemia* and needs Takanari's bone marrow to live. Things are looking a little better for Takanari, as Shizumasa shows his wicked mustache-twirling ways and literally locks up Takanari in a basement so his engagement to Haine meets with no resistance.
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