Ah book 2, in which my predictions of Shinichi's mother are fulfilled and I'm like 'oh crap...'. Also its the one where Shinichi goes from having that boyish haircut guys like in manga to the badass haircut delinquents in manga prefer.

He goes from this:


To this:


After him and Migi :ahem: merge some more.

Interestingly we meet another "failed" alien/human merging (the guy's chin! He outdoes Bruce Campbell's chin and I thought that's impossible!) and despite his protestations Migi seems to be interested in keeping Shinichi both alive AND sane.

Meanwhile Murano is highly suspicious (as she should be), Kana is highly interested (idiot girl) and Makiko (who Shinichi meets on his way to his dad's side) is just baffled (to be fair we all are dear).

I gotta feel bad for poor Shinichi. He desperately wants everything to go back to how it was, but no matter what he does it gets WORSE. And by worse I do mean it gets much much worse. I tend to believe that my interest in this series led to my interest in Mirai Nikki (aka [b:Future Diary, Volume 1|6226363|Future Diary, Volume 1|Sakae Esuno|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348368825s/6226363.jpg|6408945]) and [b:Gantz/01|2824337|Gantz/01|Hiroya Oku|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1349028971s/2824337.jpg|2850440] because the series share some common elements (namely mild mannered male student has to become ultra violent to protect what he cares about). ( )