Hajimari no Niina

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I directly love these cover.. Very cute art and their synopsis interested me..
I didn't regret bought it^^

First, this story kinda strange to me. it mean, why Niina still remember her past? How to explain this while she too young for know everything that no longer excist... but, I decided to ignore it & just focus for story....

Honeslty I cried, this comics hurting me with their characters, so warmly, I can felt too.. I was sad and seriously cry when I started read Vol.2 .... not just me, but my friends who borrow this Niina actually cried too.. haha

At first I was reluctant to read this manga because of the whole "past life" aspect. However, this manga is extremely beautiful and definitely worth your time. Unlike most shoujo manga, it is not 100% cliche (for example falling onto one another) and the romance is sweet, slow, and subtle. The characters also do not fit into the regular shoujo manga mold. For example, the mc realizes her immaturity and reflects on it. The male character is very smart and understanding too, and lets the mc find her own path in life. The other characters are also well developed. The "past life" part is actually very sad (at least to me), and is one of the manga's strengths because it helps get one of its main themes across (and it made me cry a lot). Also, there are only 19 chapters avaliable(at least on kissmanga). Overall, I rate this manga 9/10! This is also my first review, so sorry for the disorganization.

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From the beginning, she meets the old boyfriend from her past life, so that's the running plot in the start. I thought that the whole manga would be about Niina as an eleven-year-old girl, but there is a time skip right after chapter one, which was surprising but well done. It made the story much more enjoyable. After reading the first chapter I think many people would drop the manga, thinking it to be about a silly little girl pining over an older man, but it really does get better. I liked her as an older girl in high school.

I found Niina to be a very enjoyable character. Because of the time that the manga spans, we get to see Niina in many years of her life, and the development in her personality and wisdom is very obvious and close to how a real girl would grow up. Of course, she does have memories from her past life, so she is different in that sense, but the main character must always be special, mustn't she? She grows from cute and innocent to mature and smart, not a flawless person but a real one, able to come to terms with who she really is.

The story is well constructed. Each chapter ended with something to look forward to in the next, whether it was a cliffhanger or a continuation of a subplot. I actually had to keep myself from reading so quickly just because I wanted it to last longer. I loved the mangaka's ideas, though, and the way she depicted emotion and feelings was great. Painful memories? You bet.

I have to say that I really enjoyed this series. I cried a few moments and laughed at others. The art was lovely and cute and the manga was great all around. Things I did not like we're the unexpected time skip (rather, how unexpected it was, not the fact that it occurred) and the falling action reaching the ending. The first half was more exciting to me than the last. However, it was a very poignant manga and I would recommend it to any shoujo lover.

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I don't understand why the history finished so fast. This manga gave me the impression that there were a lot of points to develop but most of them got lost. For example, what was all that about Niina going to a University if in the end she got married so fast?
After Niina's childhood it seems like the plot was not well structured. BTW, I even thought they could have developped more Niina's childhood side. She seemed so strong and sure of herself in the first moment, even more than the adults around her because she had past memories. Although, when she became a High School student I feel her personality a bit strange; she was not a weak girl but she didn't have the strong presence she had before. What about that high school boy that used to love her, btw? The last chapitres were really strange. It seems like the manga must be finished quickly, so a lot of events happened in the same time and some of them were forgotten: Get father's permission, finish high school, get married and go to University and we saw all of those things super fast - like what the hell happened to the high school boy who has confessed to her?
The history started really nice specially with that reincarnation atmosphere but even it has finished in a freak way. I think some points they should develop were put aside or just finished too fast.

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