Mondaiteiki Sakuhinshu
Confidential Confessions

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If any teenage girls are going to read a single series of manga this should be it. Confidential Confessions is amazing and I give major kudos the the author because these are issues that need to be talked about and if they can be put out into the open in a convenient way it's even more amazing.

CC is not for the light of heart. This stuff is very dark and dramatic and will tug at your heartstrings. From drugs to rape and other types of abuse, these stories really show what goes on and how people should and should not deal with them.

Confidential Confessions will ... always hold a special place in my heart because it teaches fantastic lessons that everyone can learn from.

This is something every teenage girl should read.

It gives you a look at what's going on under our very noses without us realizing it until it's too late. This has made me realize that some things that seem trivial to other people can be a huge deal to the person on the receiving end. It kills me to think that police disregard people who come to them with issues like stalking and rape and don't do a damn thing about it until the person is in a life or death situation. We should all be aware of what surrounds us and every source of ... information such as this series is exactly what we need to prepare us for the sick minds in the world. Some might see this as paranoia, but better paranoid than dead.

"We were dying from the moment we were born..."

Confidential Confessions chronicles the lives of corrupted adolescents as they deal with their complex struggles. The interventions of fate has carved a path of destruction for the youth. This manga illuminates what is seen in our post-modern society. Teenagers young and old are encountering issues dealing with civil rights, economic dilemmas, and social pressure. We've seen it all before. The suicidal tendencies of teens and the clash of the sexes. However, this manga is capable of causing an emotional impact in its audience by using fine examples of what we've seen in the past and what we ... see now in the present time: the corruption of tomorrow's youth.

~[S T O R Y]~ [10]

The length of the chapters was acceptable and utterly satisfying. The proper length was able to allow the drama to develop. You could taste the tears, the anger, and the vehement frustration in the expressions of each character - particularly the main ones that each chapter focused on. Manatsu's suicidal tendency, Satsuki's tug-of-war between her duty as a "woman" and her privilege as a Woman. Suzuki's discomfort with sexual harrassment, Ayumi and Hiro's indecision between what they want and what they need to do, and Kyo's drug addiction. We encounter the troubles with love, lust, dreams, fame, fortune, self-esteem, gender rights, the future, the past, and the present. Indeed, the complex stories presented within the manga display slices of life that the reader can understand or even connect to. The streaming of the plotline was not choppy at all. It ran well enough to tug the heartstrings and spur great thought as to the valuable of every minute that this life grants us.

~[A R T]~ [7]

The art is not impressive. It merely implies the general designs you would often see in most cliche animes. However, the expressions of the characters were drawn well. You could feel the drug effects, the emotional agony, and the intense feelings of violation within each character. Though it would have earned a higher grade if there was more detail added onto each character. Then again,the art does not need to overpower the story whatsoever. The words and the feelings express speak crystal clear as it is.

~[C H A R A C T E R]~ [9]

Because of the lengthy chapters, we are able to understand the character's background fully. Parents always make an impact. Our peers always make an impact. Strangers in the street always make an impact. The manga clarifies that social pressure is inevitable. The reader is able to acknowledge the emotional corruption of each character due to a certain substance they are consuming - whether it be suicidal thoughts, depression, obsession for perfection, or terribly high hopes for a brilliant future. Truly, the characters in C.C resemble the characters that walk across our streets, sit in our classrooms, and even linger about in our homes. That's what makes this manga special. The proper plot development has enabled the reader to acknowledge the origins of the characters in order to understand why they do what they do.

~[E N J O Y M E N T & O V E R A L L]~ [9]

In all its entirety, I award this manga a 9. It's not everyday that we see a controversial yet striking manga released into the Japanimation realm. What makes the manga attractive is that the issues presented do not only occur in Japanese culture. They can occur to diverse cultures around the world. The cultural and emotional impact of the series been given a high rating for releasing a train of thought that may forever run in everyone's mind. Why do people talk, act, and think like they do? We are not in the position to say, but we still have the privilege to wonder just as we, according to Manatsu, have the privilege to take control of our own fate.