Cat Street

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I was super surprised to find that the author who wrote Cat Street was the same one who wrote Boys over Flower, and oh my god, Boys over Flower was so bad (I remember watching the anime adaptation of BoF and there was a sexual assault scene that plays off as romance. It was horrible)

But I'm glad that I went into Cat Street not knowing this fact because Cat Street was completely different from BoF. There is no stereotypical douchebag guy / nice girl melodrama, female rivalry, crazy love-triange, family-intervention, and all that weird stuff in BoF. Instead, what we have is an extremely ... mature, josei-like story of a girl who tried to become a better version of herself, through learning to make friends, fall in love, get hurt, and find a career for herself through the timespan of 3 years.

It read more like a bildungsroman in manga form, focused more on Keito and her desperate attempt to overcome social isolation, emotional immaturity, and trauma, rather than a cliche boy-meet-girl falling-in-love kinda story. I am surprised to find that the side characters, such as Kouichi, Momiji and Rei are very well-developed as well. I can't help but finishing this whole manga within 1 day (it's only 10 volumes). Definitely recommended.

Cat street is one of the old manga that catch my attention. Im not gonna say that its super duper great, but i think cat street deserve some attention.

The story is outstanding for me and it gives me chilld everytime i read it. And its really shocking because the male lead is not expected at first ( i thought it gonna be taiyou or rei ). Well the art is not the best but it still acceptable. And for me all the character is great, we can see the development of each character especially the MC.

Overall i really enjoy reading this manga, and when ... i read the ending it just give me a chills, that last inspiring words, like WOW. so i think im gonna give it a 9/10

When I read this manga for the first time, I did'nt know that it was the same author of Hana yori dango. But after a while when I read more chapters, I started to notice the similarites of the characters. I recognised the feelings of fustration I got from Hana Yori Dango, when those feelings were coming back after reading Cat Street. It got fustrating with the annoying love triangels and slow romance. It was very fustrating to read. Cat Street did the exact same thing that Hana Yori Dango did. Create a promising romantic relationship between the main characters and kill it slowly till ... all of the passion is gone. You never get to explore the depths of the main character's relationships because the romance doesn't go anywhere.

This manga builds up alot of tension and excitement in the beginning but destroys it later on. You'll end up rooting for the characters to get together but you have to wait through the whole story till they become a couple.

I feel like I need to go in to the story and slam the characters togheter and yell at them "Now kiss!"