Purikyuu

Another cute and funny story, from Motomi Kyousuke's works.
The plot was simple yet hilarious in some way.
The art was also good and simply unique, especially the characters' facial expressions.
The characters, I must say have very interesting personalities, especially the strong main female character.:)
I'm sure anyone will also be able to enjoy it!:))

A 2D, one volume, shallow love story.

An ex-prima ballerina, our 16-year-old heroine; makes me wonder when was she actually a prima ballerina, when she was a 2-year-old? Anyway, back to the (not) heart-wrenching story, at her prime (when was that exactly? Will someone answer!) she had a knee injury, which we will never fully know about, {tut, tut, writer, what have you been doing?} and now she is in highschool and has joined the archery club because of her childhood friend... That is a guy... Did I mention this is a shallow predictable love story? Think the predictable.

So that's it for the 2D, dimensionless, very straightforward, WAY too straightforward plot.

The characters were so predictable, so uninteresting, so formless. They didn't have any color (I didn't mean literally), they had no solid personalities, they were a mess.
Other than the main character being a 24/7 waterworks show that indiscriminately blushes at every thoughtless thing; she was comical.
No, actually the whole story was comical.
What did she mean 'you are the only one in my heart'?
Honestly, I'm no fortuneteller but I can clearly see that within a week, you'd have broken up.

I swear the amount of cheesy, corny, greasy shallow love in this story will seriously make you blind from toxic fumes.

'You're really such a nice guy and sensitive to me'

*Input barf sound*

The art or this miserable effort to produce something close to art, was, by now quite obviously, appalling. It was detail-less, not proportionate, lacking the illustrators style, lacking any genuine effort put in by the illustrator. I mean did they actually look at a healthy human being lately? Because seriously, you can't compare, you'd have thought that that was the setting for X-Men.

Did I enjoy this?

My eyes were stinging from the over saturation of shallow love and blushing effects, the story was magnificently over stuffed with cliches.

What do you think?

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An obnoxious main character who has the most irritating trait in the entire world of manga: "natural talent".

And the main character, Anna, does not let us forget it. If you took a shot every time the word "genius" or "prima donna" comes up, you'd on the floor in a matter of minutes with liver cirrhosis.

Her background story is that she was really good at ballet but hurt her knee...somehow...sometime...and then joins archery. Within a couple months (I guess? No timeframe is given) she's on-par with the archery president. But wait, she practiced as much as Naruto did when learning Rasengan, so she somehow does not need any instruction in how to hold a bow, shoot it, etc.

There was some information about archery in this (and the mangaka is really good at using accurate, interesting information), but not enough. But that's understandable since the center of the story is supposed to be the romance.

My favorite character was probably the archery president. Don't understand why he likes Anna, but he's a realistic and kind person.

The art, of course, was great. I remember reading a one-shot of this at the end of Dengeki Daisy. This was way, way better than that one-shot but still not my cup of tea.

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