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Oct 15, 2022
It's a shoujo gag manga. It's hilarious for a shoujo. It doesn't take itself seriously at all. It's on par with reading a Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun manga. I'm rating it for how funny it was for a shoujo. It didn't tire me out. I didn't wish it ended, like other shoujo's that stretch out for far too long with the amount of drama there is.
It takes all the shoujo tropes - like goukons, BL, fujoshi's, picking up girls, childhood friends, gangs, and turns them into a gag. No joke it was funny. I highly enjoyed it. Souta and Rizu-chan are two childhood friends who
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live next door. They grew up together. Souta is sorta a yandere in that he has two sides. He'll act cute and charming, then be domineering and possessive. Souta is hands down the funniest male lead. There are just so many reoccurring gags throughout the manga.
The characters for the most part stay where they are. Souta I thought grew the most. He starts off being two-sided only to allow himself to be who he actually is. And that's different from who he's been acting like.
The dialogue is some of the funniest you will read for a shoujo manga.
An older woman upon seeing Souta's hot dad at the hospital:
"I've thrown out my back, and can't stand up!" Whatever shall I do?
"But you're always full of pep, mam!" says the nurse.
Highly recommend this for fujoshi's, for those who love comedy. I'm surprised this isn't in the comedy genre because it's probably the funniest thing I've read, next to Romantic Killer!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Oct 15, 2022
It's just like others have said. It starts off really well, unbelievably believable. It's about a girl who ends up fooling her younger step brother by wearing a high school uniform. It's actually ridiculous. Her brother falls for her trick and even goes through crazy lengths in order to date her. He doesn't realize it's actually his sister, whom you suspect has feelings for her. This is "Life With Derek" if it actually went the step-sibling route.
But alas, apart from the first couple of volumes that I thought were ridiculous, Ecuador, of all places for example, it morphs into a lackluster shoujo but not
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quite shoujo as the characters are all in college.
When you get to the ending, my god.
Incredible beginning. But loses its threads. Girl of course ends up in some weird ass love square. How's that believable. Don't get me started on their parents.
For fans of Marmalade Boy. I did think the romance was pretty cute but it lacked believability.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 14, 2022
It's just too long. Loved the first half, it was fast, well-paced but by the second half, I just wanted it to end. Too much drama.
Hibino is a pretty straitlaced, straight A's kind of girl who got into a bad school. The high school wasn't her first choice at all and she actually hates where's she's at, on top of having to share her name with Tsubaki-kun. Hibino goes and cuts Tsubaki's long hair because she's good at cutting hair. What I loved about the first half was that it wasn't just about the side characters falling for the lead couple. It was about Tsubaki
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learning to assert herself and confront even her little sister Sakura, who she believes is cuter than her. She starts wearing her hair the way she actually wants to. When Sakura steals her dress that Tsubaki-kun bought for her, she actually confronts her. Through meeting Tsubaki-kun, she gains friends for the first time. She was actually timid, and aloof before she met him. Before she got into her high school, she did what her mom wanted her to do, which had always been to study hard, attend cram schools after school, get into the best college, regardless of her self-interests. Because that's the right thing to do.
What I liked was seeing that the families are actually there for our lead couple. You don't even see them in shoujo mangas. You hardly ever see the parents of our main leads. Even the way Tsubaki-kun's father, steps in for him when he most needed the support at the end. We can glean that his father steps out of their apartment, now that Tsubaki-kun is old enough to work at part-time and attend cram school and work.
There was character growth. There's Tsubaki having to overcome his feelings of neglect and abandonment from his mother who abandoned not only him, but his family when he was little. Hibino buts into their family drama, through Tsubaki's mom who is desperate to see her son. But they work things out for the better. Then there's Hibino herself. Tsubaki watches her and knows her passion is cutting hair, being a hairstylist. He actually confronts her about future and wants to hear what she wants for her future. Because he's seen her do her work, and work her magic. That was how she got integrated into her class. She cut her classmates' hair during school festivals and everyone praised her for it. She confronts her future, even questioning the goal her mom had set out for her, which was to study hard and get into the good university. I actually saw myself in Hibino's shoes as an Asian American who grew up exactly like Hibino.
Hibino asks, "In ten years from now, would you regret not going to college versus going for your dreams?" "No. I got to do what I wanted to do," her hairstylist sempai responds. For Hibino to actually confront her mom and her mom to come see her at their school festivals, where she got to cut hair, those stand out.
It did drag in the second half, in spite of the excellent character development. I got frustrated by the number of side characters falling for our main couple. Any new side character is a potential love rival and thus Hibino grows insecure, they make up, rinse and repeat. I didn't like the forced drama and the second half had plenty of it. Not enough breathing room. There was too much drama all the time.
This was a smorgasbord of everything you wanted into a shoujo: smut, steamy love scenes, love rivals, jealousy, the kdrama traffic accident, the breakups. There was also a family and heart and love mixed in as well. The parents did the best they could, even Tsubaki's father, who seemed like the bad guy. There was reasoning, a backstory behind him.
Tsubaki-kun is flawed. He's no Kazehaya. He isn't the perfect nice guy. He is actually good to Hibino. Hibino, who's lived the straight-laced life her whole life, who's wanted to please her mother, is actually timid, not good at expressing her feelings or confronting other people from the way she has lived. Tsubaki is straightforward and blunt and always goes out of his way to talk with her. He doesn't want her avoiding him or her having to subdue her feelings. He even stops when she's uncomfortable when they become a couple and get intimate. They balance each other. If it weren't for Tsubaki, Hibino would never have even gone for her dreams. If she dated a Kazehaya, she would've stayed in cram school and gone onto the good university and stayed on the path her mom wanted for her.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 2, 2022
It started off much stronger than the way it ended. It's like Wotakoi and an age-gap romance manga. Wotakoi in that the ML's boyfriend is a game designer.
There's a second lead who's childhood friends with her.
Like it started off well. Girl goes to her childhood home and finds a man living there. Both have lost their loved ones and the way it's set up was so good actually. But then, it fizzled out. They start dating, which I didn't mind at all.
But in terms of dealing with grief and loss, which is what this manga was about, I didn't think it was
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very deep. It scratched the surface. At the beginning, you really got the feel of what it means for the protagonist to lose her dad.
But that's it. No more flashbacks.
But then it sorta went the same age-gap route; they get together when she graduates. There's drama when outta nowhere there's an accident in the middle of a quiet street. The k-drama accident happens...
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jun 21, 2022
It hooked you in. It started off with girl got cheated on, then even duped by a married dude who went to a goukon and tried to pick her up! Then he insults her (the douchebag married dude with a kid).
She got drunk in the cafe she worked at. Somehow she ends up in a hotel with her boss. Her boss will only date someone with the intention of marrying them. (so you can already predict the ending.) So her goal is to make him like her. He's willing to date her.
It even had humor. Like when Kazuki, the male lead, was at
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the pharmacy trying to figure out what to buy. You got your overly dramatic female lead with your standoff-ish tsundere male lead. But then he became overly affectionate once he fell for her. Not the tsundere he started off to be.
The first three volumes were good. There was drama. What's with douchebags, they wanna get with you then insult your face when you don't do what they want you to do? Relatable. Who hasn't had that happen when you went to a bar.
None of their insecurities are shined on again. It started off with them both having insecurities about dating again. Her getting dumped and rejected. Him freaking out girls when he tells them straight up he'll only date if they're going to get married. He isn't going to waste his time, which is highly commendable.
I don't fall for they get together, they'll magically be free of their insecurities weighing them down.
Where's the enthusiasm from the first few chapters? Their insecurities? I don't think love, being together will waive them of their insecurities and worries. It was down-to-earth, relatable initially. You could relate to them.
I liked the art. It looked like a shoujo manga. The art was the saving grace.
But then, it became what I assume is fifty shades of gray manga form.
Them just getting intimate nearly every chapter. Smut almost every chapter that to me, just became bland.
And then it just ended with what you assume would happen. I just lost my enthusiasm.
Read the first volume or two. It started off really well but just became bland and rather boring. It started off so so well! It had the right mix of smut, tsundere male lead back when he was a tsundere and drama.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 22, 2022
A big disappointment. The first two volumes were gold, but then as I read on, it devolved. I thought volumes 8-9 were at its peak in terms of the drama. But onwards, it became even more unbelievable as it went on. Becoming a Kdrama essentially.
I read it, thinking this would be like Fruits Basket. But that's hardly the case. I was apprehensive about this being a soap opera.
It started off rather grounded in the first two volumes, but by then, it became something outta a Kdrama. Hugely disappointing. Disclaimer, the drama is highly triggering for those who are sensitive. It tries to be much
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deeper than it really is when really, this is the perfect kdrama plot.
Kira suddenly is cured of her trauma due to the power of love.
All their problems are solved because of a Kdrama plot, which is money solves everything.
From the premise, the mangaka had no idea how to introduce Rei's father, his family.
It did drag. In an unbelievable manner.
I can't say I enjoyed it. Sorry but Rei is still kind of a horrid ikkemen. I guess it's hot in the 90s, for the sexually aggressive tsundere types, but Rei kind of sucks. Like, the plot is set up so Kira has to become entirely dependent on Rei. He's honestly, dated for an Ikemen. Rei was like the Domyouji of the 90s - you know, doesn't understand what "consent" means...
Kira loses any ounce of her independence. But hey, money solves everything.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 15, 2022
This is a fluffy age gap, fake marriage story with good character development. The main character, Ena is a strong female lead who princess-carries her fiancee. She becomes the fiancee of a family of bodyguards when she's able to pull a sword out. They end up living together. Ena gets money to do for agreeing to the whims of his family.
There's good tension between our main couple. Ena is in her last year of high school while her bodyguard fiance, Sakae is twenty-five. The story delves into grief and how families cope with it. I'm a sucker for shoujo that weaves family into their
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storyline.
While the storyline isn't original by any means, this manga is kind. It tackles grief in a way that's believable. It's kinder, to me than Fruits Basket was. I experience grief and unlike Fruits Basket, where it frankly hits you, I'll argue that Kyou doesn't get to be kind to himself throughout the storyline, this is the opposite. It's kind. Through a romcom, it's able to delve into the complexities surrounding grief and guilt in a way that's subtler, less dramatic, but still as effective. Our main couple has an obstacle to overcome and its woven well.
Why Tanaka Meca's work tends to stand out is that she doesn't use the love triangle trope that seriously. When she utilizes it, she incorporates humor and comedy.
Much needed after binging Bridgerton season 2.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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May 8, 2022
This was an abomination to the franchise. I didn't think it would be the case. I was smitten somewhat in the first fifteen minutes of the film. I was cheering when I saw Omnimon. This is Tri if all the girls and Joe were removed from the battle and all you had left were Matt, Tai, Izzy and Tk. The saving grace was they got a lot of the original voice actors back. Tai's back. Agumon. Izzy. Their Digimons for the most part.
This was a pale version of the first Digimon movie; That might be the best Digimon movie. It was hilarious. The dialogue
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was witty. It wasn't bland and boring.
This was worse than the first four movies of Digimon Adventure Tri. Kari was only in the beginning fight. This is a movie if only Matt, Tai, Izzy and TK were doing all the battling. Where's Joe then, who was the father of the group? Where's Sora??? Where's Mimi???
Sora's been relegated to flower arranging. Why? She was a huge tomboy, loved, like loved soccer. Kari was also teaming up with TK in the series. What so she's just taking selfies with Gatomon while she rides the train? Kari's older than TK. She should clearly be engaged in this fight against some Digimon that supposedly threatens the lives of Digimon and their Digi Destined.
I was engaged, especially by the forth movie of Digimon Adventure Tri because the original Digi Destined actually fight, including the girls. Hello, where's Sora, Kari and Mimi? Sora who's hands down my favorite Digi Destined had a whole movie, dedicated to her and Biyomon.
There's no chemistry whatsoever with our gang. It's just a bland drama involving Matt, Tai, Izzy, and TK. TK was always with Kari. Where's Joe, the one who's almost the father of the group, always worrying about them???
This was dreadful. Too long. I'm counting the time even.
I couldn't even finish it because it got so bad. All these reboots want to introduce a new bland character.
I recommend to longtime Digimon fans, rewatch the original season, the first Digimon movie where Izzy voluntarily eats Tai's mom's cooking, and the first four movies of Digimon Adventure Tri (just for the feels.) Then go back and watch the original season instead of this garbage of a mess.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 14, 2022
It started off well. Don't all mangas do?
I liked how the protagonist was so disinterested in our male lead. Ririko initially sees Minato on the train when she sees him giving a cough drop to a lady who's coughing on the train; everyone else is stepping away from her. Ririko helps her dad out in their handyman business. Her dad gets sick, so she steps in for her dad and works for Minato - from moving his boxes to making meals. Minato helped out that lady because his mom had died from an illness where she coughed a lot. Then Ririko opens up about
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her mom who had died.
In the beginning, Bland-kun, Minato I mean had a personality somewhat. He was sorta a Tsundere. Affectionate but acted really cold and uncaring.
So the first couple of chapters were done well. I thought yes this'll be a good shoujo. But nope. The rest of the characters, aside from Minato's male friends and Ririko's two besties, are all in love with Minato. Not gonna lie.
Once they got together, Bland-kun, I mean Minato became so bland. He became a Yuki-kun, no joke; affectionate all of sudden and very open with his feelings.
It was rather infuriating to read. Bland-kun had like 4-5 girls who were all into him. Like every girl, who was not Ririrko's friends (which was just 1 girl) was into Minato. No lie: you've got childhood second cousin, a stalker, and a bunch of love obstacles meant to deter our lead couple and create misunderstandings that get resolved in a few chapters.
It started off really well and I was engaged until the manga realized the only way to tell a story is having almost every other female character be in love with Minato...
Completely disappointing. Art is alright, expect chopstick proportions.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 11, 2021
They don't make animes or mangas like this anymore. This is what Yona of the Dawn wishes it could be.
This is an underrated masterpiece. It's almost Shakespearean with the amount of foreshadowing and the way the romance is constructed.
"Your loyalty to the Red King will kill you."
There are tons of foreshadowing early on that are reiterated. Nothing is accidental. Basara follows sets up similarly with Avatar The Last Airbender. Sarasa and Tatara are two siblings who grow up in a small village. Tatara is the chosen one, meant to unite Japan and defeat the Red King. Japan has turned into a desert. Sarasa one
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day ventures forth to see the ocean but sees a sea of red, the Fire King's army. They attack their village and kill Ma-kun, a village boy who disguises himself as Tatara. Three years later, the Red King's army comes again and kills not only her father, but also her brother. Without a leader, without the chosen one, Sarasa decides to cut her hair and assume her brother's role and live out her life as Tatara.
Her village is destroyed and from there she starts her journey as she forms alliances and comrade to take down the Red King. The Red King seeks to turn Japan into a dictatorship. You find out as you continue that the goals of the Red King and Sarasa are similar. They dream of turning Japan into a lush green land where cherry trees and vegetation can prosper once again . Even their means of getting there aren't that different.
It made me question what does it mean to be a hero. Is it being on the side that's considered right?
What shines is the story telling and the dichotomy and contradictions within the characters. Sarasa meets Shuri throughout her journey and bumps into him time and time again. She doesn't realize Shuri is The Red King. Their tones change when they are with each other. They can be theirselves without playing their respective roles. Sarasa can just be a normal girl and Shuri can just be a guy.
It woulda been a near masterpiece had it fully adapted the manga. I stopped around volume 5.
Animation is as limited as the current animes but I found the animation fluid for the most part. It looked natural, the animation.
This gave forth Avatar The Last Airbender.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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