Otome Kaijuu Caraméliser
Kaiju Girl Caramelise

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Love does not look at appearance. Those words seemed to fit this one manga. Focuses on the love story of a woman who has a body like a monster. His daily life is like most normal people. With such a body, it seems like the main conflict here is the main character's body itself. The art here is very good even though there is nothing special and nothing needs to be discussed. But the plus point I give to character design. How can the female main character be described as a cute woman despite having a body like a monster. As a ... lover of the romance genre this is a very interesting entertainment. Where love is a complicated path and teenagers are in that position.

Having read the two volumes available of this manga, I can only say I have been totally hooked, and I will surely buy the nexts installments. At the surface, reading the sinopsis, you, like anyone else, would think that this idea of a shoujo where the female protagonist transforms into a godzilla is stupid. And I have to agree, it really is. But the fact that she transforms when she gets really embarrassed and when she doesn't accept her feelings gives a good metaphorical insight in this romance story, turning love from an internal conflict to a very external one.

The dialogs and art style are ... cute as hell, and although some parts are pretty cliché, the secondary characters make for it (I'm looking at you Manatsu, the kaiju fanatic). In these firsts chapters you can already see good character development from the protagonist, who had shut herself to other people to avoid the transformation. Little by little she starts to open, knowing very well that she is putting the city in danger in the process!

Otome Kaijuu is a Seinen comedy disguised as a Shoujo romance, but is actually still a decent romance with satisfying progression. At first the characters seem like parodies of Shoujo romance archetypes, but those flat, seemingly generic characters all develop naturally beyond their tropes to reveal interesting traits, hobbies, and reasons why they act as they do. Some characters have yet to receive that treatment, but I have little doubt at this point that their development will be satisfying.

At its core, it's a story about not judging by initial appearances because people are more complex than they may seem, and it adheres to that philosophy ... not only through its characters and storyline, but also its own structure and artstyle. The art is high quality throughout, whether in the cute Shoujo artstyle or when things are weirder. All of this makes for an enjoyable, albeit short experience that might not change your view on the world or cause fits of laughter, but will still resonate and thus is absolutely worth a read.