So of course Shuichi is just playing sick. What I find odd is that he's playing sick at his mother's house. His mother completely overreacts and tells Shuichi to stop acting like a child, playing sick and suddenly I see where Shuichi gets his manic personality from. Hiro tells Shuichi it's time to come back and Shuichi points out a poster in his room that Hiro and Shuichi had skipped school to stand in line for because Shuichi needed it by any means necessary. Hiro asks why he's being so sulky and why he's crying when he basically just realized his dream of singing with his favorite band. It's because he's jealous of Ryuichi. Hiro gives him a bit of a pep talk and Shuichi regains his confidence.
The scene shifts to K talking to Yuki about Shuichi. Yuki is irritated because K is bothering him while he's trying to work (and I just realized that, much like how we never hear any music, we haven't read anything Yuki has ever produced either. Yet he's an award winning novelist and seems to know what he's talking about since he critiqued Shuichi back in chapter one. I would like to read SOMETHING he wrote. Anything at this point) and Shuichi isn't there. K is basically saying that he didn't think that Shuichi could ever reach Ryuichi but now he sees that Shuichi does have that talent. Yuki immediately catches on to what K was doing. He's hoping to get a huge effect from this. He doesn't think that aiming for Ryuichi won't be enough to make him truly great. Nor will money. Only one thing will. Yuki quickly catches on to what K is saying and thinks he's crazy. Later on, Shuichi comes back to Yuki's place with a new haircut.
Yeah, I do not like this hair cut. For those who can't tell, it's the style that was on the first image of Gravitation I showed on this blog. Thus the first step on his feminizing has occurred. I have to agree with Yuki who says he looks like a middle school girl. This is just not a good look for Shuichi. I understand the idea behind it and it's a great one. Since Shuichi is no longer trying to copy Ryuichi, he cut his hair so he won't look like him anymore. I still don't like it. Yuki compliments Shuichi on his haircut and every time he starts acting like his normal self, mysterious gun shots appear in the wall surrounding him, prompting him to act more lovey dovey with Shuichi. It's clear that K is somewhere, watching them. His plan? Yuki says that if Shuichi can sell a million copies (go Platinum) then he'll take Shuichi out on a date. Shuichi FLIPS OUT in excitement at the idea of going on an actual date with Yuki and K congratulates himself on a job well done.
The next day Shuichi is back to his normal exuberant self, nothing but sunshine and cheer. All according to K's plan, Shuichi burns through every single publicity opportunity to make sure Gravity sells as well as possible. Suguru and Hiro both eventually catch on to K's plan. K then brings up a good point. We all know that Shuichi's world revolved around Yuki...but what exactly does Shuichi mean to Yuki? Hiro informs Shuichi that they've sold 400K albums already though Shuichi is slightly discouraged by just how much further he has to go. Sakano and the group discuss the plans for Bad Luck going on tour and K tells them they have another television appearance to put in. Just as Hiro and Shuichi get all excited about the chance to be in the top spot on an actual music show...K tells them that it's a cooking show. This band just can't catch a break with its TV appearances.
Shuichi asks Yuki to help him cook and...I'm sorry, Shuichi just looks too much like a girl. It's ridiculous! Actually...he kind of looks like Demi Moore now that I look at it. Well now I'm just going to be thinking of Shuichi and Yuki making a clay pot together every time I see them. Awkward. The cooking show is apparently some kind of celebrity competition where teams compete against each other. Shuichi is determined to win and the chapter ends with K seeing that someone named Tetsuya Ukai is going to be on the show with Bad Luck. If I remember correctly, Noriko's last name is Ukai. So I'm guessing this is her brother then. K seems surprised by this but we'll have to wait until next chapter to see what the big deal is.
Again, there's precisely zero conflict in the story now and while there were some funny parts in the chapter, I found this to be kind of a slog to get through. Not to mention that Shuichi now has that God awful haircut. There had better be some kind of conflict soon or I'm going to entirely lose interest in this series.
Tomorrow we'll be looking at Gravitation Track 23! See you then.
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