Mademoiselle Butterfly

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I really have to say if there was ever a manga which was heavily underrated it would be this one! Firstly, I love how the plot really sinks into its historical time setting of the 1920s. This is a refreshing break from traditional popular romance animes which focus on school-life.

Mademoiselle Butterfly really captures how individuals were treated based on status, famine and poverty. I think that the author did a really fantastic job. Although, the manga series is very short - it isn't rushed and flows effortlessly.

I think the relationship in this manga is truly beautiful and really made me cry. 10/10 - the ... artform, plot and characters.

This manga shows the relationship between a geisha and her childhood friend who is a body painter.

the moments shared by the two of them has been portrayed well, it had this bittersweet feeling throughout the manga.

since it is a historic manga you also get to see some of the challenges faced by them as individuals and as a couple in that time/era.

In my opinion, this manga was very much enjoyable except for the end which had some unwanted drama. even though those events were portrayed well and the emotions were conveyed properly, I still felt it was unwanted.

No. If you like shoujo, and can read yet another manga that adheres to the general trend of:

Girl falls in love with boy -> They get together -> Some hardship here -> Love prevails


Then read this. Otherwise, I'd give this a pass. This is the first manga I've ever rated at a 1, and I'm utterly shocked at why this has an 8.17 (as of this review). It's unoriginal. The characters are bland and flat. The girl is dense, and does everything for the interest of her husband, to the point where he's constantly on her mind.

The only redeeming feature was the art, but ... it isn't anything to write home about. If anything, the butterflies in this manga are well drawn, and so are the characters, well enough to at least convey what's happening, although some panels take some time to figure out.

Anyways, back to the story. The story's shit. In fact, the author even stated at the end of the story that she just wanted to "add yet another conflict" to the relationship between the two main characters. She proceeds to pull an ending completely out of her ass (yes folks, it's a deus ex machina), making me drop the score of this manga from an already low 3/4 to a 1.

Give this a pass, unless you are really bored, can't think of anything else, or are one of the people that actually enjoy reading a manga that follows the same old cliche, stale, reused formula you can find in countless others. And likely, these others will adapt said aforementioned formula than this one.

It sucked.