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i liked the story behind nonono. I thought that the author wrote a really strong heroine who wasnt above doing anything to realize her dream. I reall y could have done without the ecchi parts; the idea could have been portrayed without them and they werent an intrigual part of the manga.
the supporting characters were as strong as the heroine and i really liked that. However the author seemed to write in way too many incidental characters and random characters, where i lost track of them at some point.
It seems like the author had minimal knowledge on the sport of ski jumping ... and learned more as the story went on, because i am not big on sports i thought that was really cool. The end was a let down because you dont know if she reached her main goal and what happens after the last chapter.
bottom line. Its a good read the chapters are generally short, sometimes you dont know if the heroine will succeed, and if you like cross dressing/ gender bending there is enough to go around. Sure there is lots of boobs, and other ecchi things. Sure, there are some chapters that were fillers and the end was a bust- but the rest of the ride was pretty good.

TL;DR - Everything wrong with hentai doujins thrown into a sports manga (a little more specific later).

Started off great. A story about a young girl carrying the dreams and wills of her family to get gold at the olympics. She overcomes hardships and comes out on top through effort, talent, luck and the help of her friends.
Sounds great right?

Yeah well for some reason the author decided to place these completely unnecesary characters who do completely unnecessary things. Sports is too mainstream, gotta give it a dose of EDGE. No, not just one dose, some of the ... psychopathic mentality was stomachable and did make it a little exciting, but he just upped the molarity to like 18 or something.

I mean, I know Elfen Lied was a hit (and I'll be honest I moderately enjoyed Brynhildir), but this is just &#%(@#&%*(@#. The tone is just all over the place. I mean, yes it's fine for sports/shounen to get dark, but you don't make it dark with objectifying and sexualising your female protagonist.
If you are NOT cool with attempted rape, rape, murder, attempted murder, blackmail, etc etc occuring in your sports manga/anime. Stay the fuck away.

I am honestly so disappointed. I really liked her character and the main supporting cast, who, weren't the most well-made were overall likeable.

P.S. First review I've done, had to put this out, far out, had to send the word out.

Disappointing, truthfully. I was really excited for a sports manga about a female athlete and in a winter sport of all things, however I found it going a bit all over the place in terms of the story. Really liked the idea of a girl attempting to compete in a sport where only men could (because of the time that it's set in), however I found no real character development and it became a stale read as I found myself going "what? Is that really necessary?" whenever every truly horrific event/background story occurred.

Because I haven't read any of the authors other works I didn't ... know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. By far my favourite character were the other females Kourogi Mikage and Sora as they were the most real and developed characters for me. It could be good for some people and it had a lot of potential, but it fell flat for me.