Oct 14, 2020
I'd been following the Kuragehime manga since I finished the anime in 2011. I was always so excited to read new updates because I really fell in love with the story and the characters from the beginning.
I felt like the story was really cute and wholesome. Even though the premise of a character finding a diamond in the rough and a character budding into something completely new is nothing too unusual, the mangaka did a great job at making it feel refreshing. After all, it is quite strange to find a manga about a jellyfish-obsessed otaku girl who has her world turned upside down
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by a more than unusual male lead who leads her into a fashion industry. It had a few plot twists here and there that I did not expect and kept me in the edge of my seat.
The art style might not be a masterpiece but it is quite good, adorable, and works beautifully with the story. I think the mangaka really put time and effort into drawing fashion as well, which I really appreciated.
I really liked Tsukimi as a main character. She was plenty fleshed out throughout the story and from start to finish I felt connected to the things she felt and experienced. She had a lot of good points to her and I really appreciated that she was more open than most of Amamizukan, especially compared to Mayaya or Banba, who sometimes felt like they were only comic relief characters to the point that it was overbearing. However, despite all that I still greatly enjoyed Amars as they kept quite true to the type of characters they were supposed to be. My only complaint about them would be that they could've had a little more development but they are great as they are anyway. I loved Kuranosuke as the male lead. He was confident, beautiful, and he was easily my favorite character in the whole story. I liked that his gender fluidity was not used as a gimmick and the butt of the joke at any part of the story. The one character I really did not like from this whole manga was Shu. I thought he was naive and frankly quite superficial, and did not really develop dramatically enough for me to like him.
Overall, I was a loyal fan to this manga up until the last chapter where it really fell flat. There was a lot of buildup throughout the story for it to just end abruptly in one or two chapters and it really disappointed me. It wasn't a terrible ending but I know the mangaka could've done much better and at that point it just felt like they were fed up with this story and added whatever epilogue just to call it done.
However, despite how bitter I sound with my last statement I did greatly enjoy reading this manga and I highly recommend it, especially for the loveable characters and if you enjoy shoujo/josei stories.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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