Yknow, all non-essential plot aside. This volume is OK. Aside from the non-existent swimsuit chapter, it's a pretty good fanservicey volume. Funnily enough, I could see this volume being either the appetizer or the desert, maybe shit will hit the fan or maybe we'll finally come to the good old days of cute girls doing cute things on the next volume. Either way all of you will read anyway, because you'd have probably dropped it by vol 8 if you hate the drama. The author really does feel like more of an artist than a writer though, all his character are drawn pretty and cute, but not a lot of depth as a character outside from being used as a punching bag for the sake of character development. A part of me wish he'd improve over time, but I guess I shouldn't be reading a CGDCT manga for character depth. Then again, a manga based on The CGDCT formula don't usually introduce anything more complex than questioning whether or not Burger is a sandwich.