Kowloon Generic Romance

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Past & Current / Love vs Amnesia/ Mystery & Suspense

Imagine yourself standing in front of your lover or a person you secretly admired. But today, there is something peculiar about the person. He/she has a completely different personality (with no past memory) and you can never change his/her personality back. Will you still love the familiar stranger?

!!!Minor Spoilers!!!

Story: 9
If you have watched a movie called “The Vow”, it has a similar vibe to it; moreover, in the current state, vines of mysteries and suspense is going to crawl over your brain as the story progresses.

Since this manga is relatively new, I will give it a ... -1 for potential error; however, I have huge optimism for Mayuzuki’s work since she just completed a fantastic manga piece prior to this one.


Art: 10
The time-lapse style of drawing certain scenes and the Hong Kong-ish background/setting make it a magnum opus for this category :) So many details. Love it!


Characters: 9
Kujirai/ Kujirai
Kudou

Side character:
The Doctor

The character development is far from over, but we can see the character’s layers being peeled slowly as the story progresses.

Enjoyment: 10
Whenever I see this manga updates, I click.


Overall: 9
For readers who are impatient or first time reading Mayuzuki’s work, I have to warn that the manga’s story is relatively slow-paced and can be unpredictable. You have be to patient with the storyline. On the other hand, if you have read “Koi wa Ameagari no You ni” and loves that manga, then you shouldn’t be worried. Mayuzuki’s story telling is extremely detailed oriented and you won’t regret your decision by following this manga. But, the only common theme between this and her previous word only overlaps in the "romance" aspect. Other than that, these two works are extremely different from each other.

Enjoy the “fine dining” experience with this manga~


P.S. If someone is having a hard time distinguishing present and past, check out if Kujirai is wearing her earrings.

The vibe is absolutely immaculate , if your a fan of 80’s ,the contrast of old town , chinese culture and high tec , futurist and sci-fi combined to that sexy protagonist drawned like a city hunter character make me want to listen to miki matsubara , however i tend to say that the atmosphere fall off after 15-20 chapters , the story seems highly interesting , and fresh but it’s so slow and repetitive , i don’t remember the number of useless panel and wasting time by watching the same things again and again and that’s for sure a big malus for that ... manga , it’s really my type but i have to say i dropped because it just get boring , nothing happens and when it does it feel forced , unnatural i feel like watching a football match with no action for 90 min , and get a last second penalty .

I will wait until (if) someday that the story will be exploited at a decent rythme

So i just read this full recently, until latest translated chapter. And having it read before, this is the equivalent to The series called Lost.

In Lost, each episode you are bombared with new information and new lore. But what kowloon does not get a grip at is that they never reveal the lore, presumably in the last chapters of this manga everything will be explained.

Following is my opinion. Why tf is there gay seggs between a psychopathic male doctor and a most likely a modefied male human. And all of a sudden this now about the 2 of them solving this "CONSPIRACY OOGGAAA ... BOOOGA". From a romance between a beatiful woman, and a good man to homos. (I have nothing against homo manga, read a number of yuri stuff)

Back on track. It does really hurt me not knowing the lore explained. Although i know what is the lore and you find out the whole gig fast, it still needs to be explained lol. I like the characters, the setting, but i just cant get over how the author just does not want to explain the lore that is embedded within these characters.
Other than that, nice realationship, nice setting, yeah wow i did not expect such a cool setting, think of it as a old school cyperpunk ish.
And yeah i did read it before, remembered some things. And some things i guess have aged poorly. Might just be me.

Read it, i wouldnt reccomend. Wait maybe till the manga ends