Ranked #890

Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakura Iro (Manga)

Overall, this is a good yuri manga. Hell, it's a great yuri manga, thinking about it.

The stories were good; some were decent and others were excellent. I can't say there was a bad one within the anthology.

The art was pretty, the colour pages were downright beautiful, but it loses a point for not having an overall professional and polished feel to it, also some of the character design lacked originality (the mangaka seemed to be recycling the girls from within the stories and just changed their hair, height and personality.) Although this is probably Morinaga Milk's best artwork to date.

The real reasons why this manga collection truly wins are the Nana and Hitomi stories in particular. For the first time in yuri, that I've read, the girls form a real relationship, they date and go through all the motions of a normal relationship rather than live in perpetual angst or die in the end like we see happening in most yuri manga.

Judging characterisation was difficult seeing as how the characters appear a couple times or sometimes only once throughout the compilation as each story is told from various perspectives, but overall the girls were developed as much as a one-shot would allow. Again, the only characters you really fall in love with and who are fleshed out are Nana and Hitomi. Their story is the best of the collection, and worth getting this manga for.

To see the girls actually get the girls, I would definitely recommend this. It's cute, entertaining, romantic and funny to boot. read more

I'm a big fan of manga by this artist, so my vision is clouded over by scenes of the other series' by them. Hehe, I'll try my best!

I think that the stories were really nice, and I liked that each had a different level for each of the girls. What I mean is, one is in love with her friend and worries about being accepted, and one is confused about being kissed by her sempai. All the characters are in different situations, which I think is surprising for a lot of oneshots. To me it always seems like it's just the same characters going through the same things just with different faces taped over top.

The art was really pretty, the reason that I'm a fan of the author. The characters were alright, but because it's a series of oneshots, you hardly get to know them and therefore don't grow very attached at all.

Not anything too great, but still worth reading as it won't take too much time and it's very pretty to look at. Not seap at all, just a superficial pretty one-shot. read more