Ranked #2995

Katakoi (One Shot)

From first glance, this is your typical, every day "Girl falls in love with childhood best friend, too shy to tell him". However, a twist soon occurs in the fact that the girl is seemingly "punished" for not confessing her love and the fact that she continously re-lives the same day for a significant period of time (I cannot really say anymore with spoliers). Though the idea of "love conquers all" can be found running rampant in many a manga, this manga manages to twist around the idea a bit in its own unique manner, all withen fourty pages. That being said, there a few parts of it that seem a bit murky and confusing, and one can probably expect to re-read a few pages back to understand what is going on. However, these occurences are not very frequent, and I only ran into them near the very end of the tale. The art is average, though I thought it was particularly good during scenes of death. As for the characters, there are really only two focused on during this manga. They are your average, deep thought thinking characters, nothing extremly special as far as I can tell.

This being a oneshot and only fourty pages, mostly all art, you have nothing to loose by reading this. It is an interesting plot that does not rely heavily on common ideas that float around in manga. read more