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This is the most funny thing I've read this year, I think. Supernatural comedy that is strange, but adorable. And it is original 100%

Story is very good, not only because it's shocking and unexpected, but also well mastered to make the reader interested just with 4 chapters! For me it's even more funny, while I myself am a dog-lover and someone says to me sometimes that I'm dedicated to my dog even more than acceptable. Mangaka made fun of very casual situations and - what's more - of usually used in romance plot lines.
The 5-th is about a vampire and draws those merchandised creatures from ... the new point. What would you do if some vamp says to you, that you're not good enough to be a blood-donor? Shell you be disappointed? As I said, that's funny.

Art is just simply good, especially pervy wolf, who ends up being disappointed in some aspects every time. The facial expressions of the dog-wolf are amazing! I mean, making wolfy chibi faces should have been quite entertaining for mangaka.
Though other things are not so well-designed.

Characters are just classic for the genre, but they also are not quite as you expected them to be. But the sad thing is, we can't yet understand anything about the supernatural universe: what kinds exist there, what are their abilities and social structure etc. Nothing useless is said about the past of the mail protagonist. They just love each other, and... welcome to the next volume! (Sort of) The female protagonist though is plain, maybe she's here just for the sake of the wolf-boy.

Enjoyment is full to the point when it is hard to hide the laughters (it's night time after all). Though it's not a children's story, while so much sex hides underline, there is nothing smut or ecchi here, so I don't get bored.

The overall is 8, which is "very good", cause I even shared some especially humorous and well-mastered pages with my precious dog-owner-friend, who doesn't like manga at all.

What is this manga about?
In a few words "Taiyou no le" goes on the family values in the first place, particularly concerning different types and components of love (almost love-ABC: ~ affair, altruism, attraction, calf ~, ~ for children, ~ confession, conjugal ~,cupboard ~, domestication, empathy, fatherly ~, filial ~, first ~, ~ for friends, haunted ~, honesty, inspiring ~, marital ~, ~ message, misunderstanding, motherly ~, mutual ~, one-way ~, secretly ~, sisterly ~, sympathy, trust, undemonstrative ~, etc, including even devotion of dog to her family members).
Someone can find here something very important that can help to overcome teenage trust issues and some ... common domestic problems. Among similar mangas this one is less complicated and three-hankie, mainly due to absurd jokes and embarrassing situations, But this is enough indeed!

Story - 8
Is quite plain, and that's the clue to it's cuteness. In the reality XXI century is full of divorced people and abandoned children, some of them willfully escape to other families, spending time with friends and their parents, who may partly substitute the real ones. More than that I myself know more broken families, than traditional and full ones. Some of my friends were just like Mao till they've grown up and separated from their parents completely. The story line is mostly perfect for the "slice of life" genre, except for romantic line.
Some may find extra love-triangles, which may seem unnecessary. For me though it's understandable. What I dislike is reasoning. I know that love is a complicated thing and you can't love person for something, that could be listed. There should have been though some must-have small moments, some jokes that only two understand, something special and intimate, that real partners should share. I couldn't find anything like this in any pairing.

Art - 6
For me it was not the strongest point of this manga. Though the style is good enough to simplify reading and understanding, it's still schematic and plain. Nothing special, as for me. Facial expressions and body poses are not thoroughly drawn.

Character - 7
The most of the characterization is rather thin even considering included side-stories. The only well-produced are Motomiyas: Mio and - surprisingly - her father Kaitou. Even the other main character, Hiro Nakamura, is obscure. His reactions to some occurrences seem strange to me. And still it was quite simple to put myself at the place of Mao, so mangaka really have achieved the main aim, I think.

Enjoyment - 8
I had fun reading this manga and also reconsidered something in my own life. Some little imperfections didn't spoil the pleasure.

Overall - 7
Comparing to other works on the subject "Taiyou no le" can't be considered a masterpiece. It is also not a haunting work, but valuable, so I hope that this review will help myself some years later to remember, what this work is.

The first thing that I want to say is not the main one at all: Though I don't like reading manhwa because of characters' names and direction of text, which makes me uncomfortable, this manhwa lacks inconveniences.

Ingenuo is a great story about photographers, life, friendship, family and LOVE, of course, different kinds of it: sempai-kohai relationship, success-versus-love story, hudge-age-gap, love polygon, celebrity-and-plain-girl etc.

Story is great! (and well-masterd also) Plot is interesting and maybe even unpredicted.

Art is sometimes outstanding because it shows true emotions through poses and, as it's promised by name, through angles, light, position and allusions.

Characters are enjoyable and real, I love them and ... it worth reading, it's not like corny stories, in Ingenuo butifull appearances become subjects of pleasantry.

So if you like reasonable stories, then this manhwa is must-read

While reading synopsis, one can misunderstand the whole spirit of this outstanding work! It's bright and soft, it can also influence people! If you need some light to feed your inner strength, then Love So Life is right for you. If you wanna read an embarassing story about a couple with age gap, then move for another thing, cause here you'll definately won't find much of the sort.

Story - 10
It seems fresh and realistic, all parts do suit one another, without any contrivedness. A girl from orphanage finds a part-time job in sort of kindergarden and somehow perfectly deels with problematic 2-year-old twins. Exhausted uncle ... of those twins catch at a straw, though this one straw happens to be a real catch. So the story of very cute twins and their babysitter begins.

Art - 10
The babies are soooo cute! (don't get me wrong, I'm not keen on babies, this is just the work is really good!) Everything is so unmature, anything pervert at all, even some Moments between Matsunaga and Nakamura are just fun, they don't make one's hurt run faster, reminding smth... you know... as it happens while reading romantic stories.
In short, art is touching.

Characters - 10
The charecters are psychologically correct.
There is a girl that wishes create an ideal place for abandoned children that want home and family back. She lost her mather in 5, though she remembers so much! Her own sad story allows her to understand fillings of children very well.
There is a man from "perfect family" - here you know what I mean, this is just classic: in his family's inner relationship was nothing at all. When
He sees Her attitude to children, life and... himself, when he is treated kindly without any selfish motive, when she is just a child by herself and she values a home and family so much, he just can't resist on giving her one. He gives this girl something that she admires, but can he think about her as a child, when she is a very young, but woman, who cares about him and his nephews and who is a very comforting creature, enough adult to take care of herself and others as well, more adult then some real grown-ups. How will he resist a temtation which is mostly not phisical?
Supporting characters are also well done.

So please enjoy this super cute manga, it'll make you brighter from the inside, though it is interesting and a good comedy also, so it's not boring

Someone could call ES a plain sci-fi manga about human experimentation and meaning of being human, about value of human life, about morality of murder and judgment, about tragic love in today-we-save-the-world circumstances... The final may seem plain also as a logical ending. It may also scare like The Astronaut's Wife or Transcendence's final, when you know that this story is totally completed, though it may be also a beginning of smth... Wait a minute! Isn't it a describing of a perfect sci-fi?
ES - Eternal Sabbath is a great work, for adult mind and not for entertainment: there is little of humorous or ... absurd situations, there is no hope for happy outcome, cause in the real world someone just isn't happy and no one could do anything with this fact. Well-crafted plot and characters are as in the graphic novel. Es is the first manga that I enjoyed as a real book, so for me it is outstanding.
Though there is much of action and drama, the work is more philosophic, than any other genre, and psychology is just a welcomed part of a plot, because in really good novels the Plot is something that characters create by themselves.