Alternative TitlesEnglish: The Wallflower - Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge; The Seven Metamorphoses of Yamato Nadeshiko Synonyms: My Fair Lady, Sunako of Many Forms, Perfect Girl Evolution, Sunako of Many Forms, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge, PGE, YamaNade, Yama Nade Japanese: ヤマトナデシコ七変化♥
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: 2000 to ?
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SynopsisIt's a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free! There's only one condition—that within three years the guys must transform the owner's wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be?
Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive. This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle!
(Source: Del Rey) |
Related MangaAdaptation: Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
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Morven
42 of 56 people found this review helpful
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88 of ? chapters read
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This is a hard one to review, because it's so variable in quality. The best bits are really good, while the worse bits are really annoying.
The premise and overall theme are great. It's a quite different take on the whole ugly-duckling-becomes-a-swan storyline that should be familiar from things like "My Fair Lady", "Pretty Woman", and all the other stories that have a man turn a girl into a lady. Here, even four highly motivated pretty-boys have a heck of a time with just one very difficult young woman. She doesn't want to change, not in the least, and while the boys can often find a way to persuade her to play the part of a lady for a particular reason, she pretty soon snaps back into her reclusive, horror-movie-loving, not-taking-care-of-herself nature.
It's these snap-backs that make it a little hard, sometimes. Quite often, they're used as a method of hitting the reset button so that the next episode can start from the exact same place the previous one started with, like your average saturday morning cartoon. Real character development is agonizingly slow, and all too often an episode is "Let's have the boys cart Sunako off to some other place where nobody knows her, so that she can freak out, scare everyone around, and totally ruin the boys' plans before it's all resolved at the end with a heartwarming moment."
It feels to me that the creator is dragging out the story much more than it really should be. On the other hand, Sunako does manage quite a bit of character development over time, as do the boys - especially main interest Kyohei. I like that acceptance of Sunako's weirdness becomes as much the theme as her changing; she grows and evolves, but doesn't simply get remade into something different.
The art is mixed. When the artist could be bothered to actually draw the characters properly, which tends to be in more dramatic scenes, especially fights or contests, or opportunities for the boys to look hot, it's excellent. However, Sunako especially spends much too much time being rendered as a chibi (perhaps because this is supposed to be Sunako's own self-image) which gets a bit tiresome.
Overall, a flawed execution, but for me the good episodes were good enough to recommend it strongly but with caveats. read more
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jinxed72
14 of 23 people found this review helpful
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103 of ? chapters read
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9 |
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10 |
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8 |
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10 |
When I first started reading Wallflower, I had made the assumtion that it would just be one of those mangas where they turn the girl into a perfect lady, all of the guys fall in love with her along the way, and she picks one of them at the end to make your average shoujo manga. A few chapters in, I realized this would not be the case. While it starts off with the simple plot of the boys having to turn the girl into a perfect lady, it slowly evolves into an even greater message that I think can be simply put by a line said by Kyohei, "You're okay just the way you are." I like this manga because it isn't typical or simple. Though overexagerated and completely illogical at times, the message stays true throughout the series.
One asspect of the story that I personally like but many people hate is that the plot and developement is slow. This is not a manga to read if you're just looking for a quick fix and I can honestly say I don't see it coming to an end very soon. I for one like the slow flow; it's easier to digest the manga and it feels like I'm growing alongside the characters. I find that with the slower pace, Sunako's character developements seem more realistic.
The art is decent and gets better throughout the story(in the beginning I couldn't tell the difference between Kyohei and Ranmaru). One thing that grows boring after awhile though is the fact that Sunako is almost always drawn in chibi form. The purpose of this is to emphesize her true beauty when she is drawn normally, but seeing simple chibi after simple chibi can get boring as you read. Overall, the art is beautiful, but could use work.
Lastly, the characters. There is such a variety of unique characters throughout the story and I've fallen in love with them all. While the main focus is Sunako's developement, all of the main characters subtly change along with her.
If you have the patience, I highly suggest reading this manga. It's funny, romantic, and like nothing you have ever read before. read more
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The heroine is scary and almost look exactly,black long hair which is hiding face,inexperience with outer world and never had a contact with anyone else,but in fact theyre quite pretty when their face is exposed
Both are shoujo series that feature an outcast girl with long black hair who is trying to learn how to be normal.
Yup, Sunako and Sawako = Sadako.
Oh, this my first recommendation. [:
The main characters Sawako (from Kimi ni Todoke) & Sunako (from The Wallflower) are two pretty distant girls, who have their perspective or you could say personality change by a group of friends. Both girls are viewed as frightening, and have a rather sad past, although tier past isn't really all that similar. They also look similar in a sense too, they both have long black hair. Both also are a shoujo too. Um, I really think if you enjoy reading Kimi ni Todoke try reading The Wallflower, or if your reading The Wallflower try reading Kimi ni Todoke.
Sorry about my weak similarities...
The plot is different, but the main character of each story are similar, and are both referred to sadako from The Ring (IDK wat The Ring is, but Sadako is the scary character in the movie).
You will probably find both female protagonists (Suwako, Sunako) will have many similarities. Not only do they look alike, but they both have self confidence issues, and throughout both mangas, you can slowly see them gain their confidence. Reading the Wallflower is like seeing what suwako would be like if she were actually as scary as everyone else thinks she is. Both are great reads!
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Both manga involve a girl rejected by the first boy she liked. So, they sink into a stae of depression (aka "black" or scary). Kyouko loves curses, voodoo dolls where as Sunako collects skeletons and creepy stuff. Both of them believe in fairy tales or fantasies.
The difference is in Skip Beat! Kyouko is trying her best to come to the top of showbiz world coz she loves it(though she started out to just get her revenge on sho). Whereas Sunako is trying to become a lady(not really!!) just because her aunt wants her to become one.
All in all these two are typical shoujo manga with a "very different" or "strong" or crazy scary and beautiful heroines. Also...both of them are my favourites^_^
Both mangas have atypical heroines, especially for shoujo, with a "dark side" that lends towards humour. Perfect Girl Evolution has more occultish elements though.
Both series have got a LOOOOT of bishie, girl with an "original dark side" and to me, when Yahiro is thinking about Kyoku and Ren, he's somewhat like Yuki, Ranmaru and Takenaga when they talking about Sunako and Kyohei.
What a super quirky heroine who gave up on love? Or how about super dense "heros" who don't acknowledge what they know? Both Skip Beat and Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (otherwise known as Wallflower or Perfect Girl Evolution). Although the plot is radically different, several key qualities.
Both stories have main female characters who have broken hearts and swear never to love again. However, in Skip Beat! instead of become a dark horror loving girl, Kyoko joins the entertainment world to surpass the boy who used her and begins to find herself while learning how to act, from the ground up.
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