Kodomo no Omocha
Kodocha: Sana's Stage

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I don't think anyone understands how much I love this series. Im not great at explaining but this has been my favorite for a long time now.

characters- 10/10
sana is definitely unique compared to most female shoujo leads. she's quirky and sometimes breaks out rapping, and she has a lot of character development throughout the series. even though she's very happy and loud pretty much all of the time, we can see into her past and the things that happen to her which have some heavy topics. her dynamic with hayama is adorable, you can tell that even though they rarely show it, they love each ... other<3

plot- 10/10 omg.
It 's easy to think that this sounds like a cliche plot and there wouldn't be a lot to keep things interesting. boyyyyy would you be wrong. it starts off in 5th grade, where sana and akito are in the same class, but they're rivals and the boys constantly attack their teacher; akito being the leader of everything. (small spoiler alert) you find out a little later that akito is blackmailing the teachers with a certain photo. sana eventually convinces him to stop by blackmailing him back (lol)
during this process, you see into hayama's home life and how much he goes through to be so nonchalant. Basically, the author knows when to throw in serious parts of the story in. when they're later in middle school, the story talks about friendships, manipulation, heavier topics like depression, and how much love can hurt. all of this of course is intertwined with the cute enemies to lovers plot, and it keeps you super intrigued.

art-9/10
I love the art in this series, the only thing I have to say about it is that in the fully colored art, the characters look serious and stern. putting that aside, the manga art displays emotions very exaggerated and silly. the eyes on the cover art are beautiful and she somehow makes the characters look dream-like, far away and gorgeous.

overall- 10/10.
I absolutely will recommend this series until the day I die.

Wow boy, where do i even begin with this one. It was strange, but beautiful. There were many unexpected moments, i mean, i have both, moments of pure excitment when i couldn't keep myself from jumping out in the air, extatic about their development. This is a romance and you should keep that in mind when you start it. This is the mainly reason i started this one too. I never thought that i would be so glad seeing young kids being in love and their time together growing up. But the theme in this one is a little more than that. They may be ... kids, but life treats them as adults too. Good and bad things happen. some characters make mistakes, others prove themselves to be the best suportive characters that they can be. Honestly, i felt my heart tremble in their bad moments and jump about in my chest when it was good for them. I mean, i think you could never be wrong with this old romance stories, as they had the guts to show life as it really is. This was a very real setting, there could be real kids, young adults out there who go through this. All i can say to them is "Fight on, and never forget, numbers mean strength". What this manga portrays perfectly is that none of us can make it always alone. Sure there might be people out there who last longer than others, but that's just a matter of time. If manga and life have taught me something is that, when you can't do it, when it's just too hard to do it alone, ask for help. Maybe from 100 people, 99 will have themselves too much going on, or can't, or just don't want to help, but surely there is 1 person out there who will say "sure, how can i help?". And never forget that. Now the story, judging by the release year, you can't actually call it cliche. I mean this was even before that term applied to manga. So yes, i very much enjoyed it. The art style help the characters feel alive, i found myself almost crying sometimes with the characters. You can feel their emotion, and that's an actual hard thing to do. Bravo to the one who drew it all. For the writer himself, if it wasn't the mangaka, then, very good job sir, if it was him then... you are splendid author, as a human being that took the time to bring such a gem to the public. I could ramble about much more, but you have to read it yourself, and you will see that you will want to ramble a lot yourself. It's just that good. Now for reading this gem of a story and this review, thank you. May we meet again one day. Good luck in life, stay safe, and i hope you will never forget the day always comes after the night. For now dear reader, farewell.

It starts off really well in the first two or three volumes.

It utilized a childish language and a cutesy demeanor to convey adult circumstances, like physical abuse within families, rape, pregnancy, blame. It starts off strong. Two characters meet each other and find out how little they know about each other.

It didn't feel like I was reading a shoujo manga, but then what happened? Love triangles and love squares happened. What started off as two different people and their friends becomes love triangles: girl for the dude and a fellow child actor for the main lead.

It starts off really good, it was a romance ... turned family drama. But then the love triangles, the drama and the misunderstandings. Girl nearly breaks her leg and her love interest believed in gossip from a tabloid that she's dating her costar. How's she supposed to call if this was the 90's, before cell phones? Pay phones were terrible.

It went longer than necessary. I couldn't torture myself anymore. I love shoujo, not this.