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Dec 4, 2016
I gave up on this manga fairly quickly. The premise and the high popularity drew me in and after the first chapter I got a fairly good idea of how things were going to unroll, and by chapter 2 I realised that this wasn't going to be a manga I was going to enjoy.
It starts out with a girl receiving a letter from her future self in 10 years time and at first our MC disregards it, but then slowly comes around to believing it to be true when the coincidences from the letter and what happens in her day turn out to match
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up quite a lot.
Great! I am all about this plot, there is a lot that can be done with it. Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there. A mysterious boy turns up, I assume he has some relatively sad backstory that I ultimately won't care about and of course she falls for him and our two main characters turn into the worst shoujo cliche ever. She can't think for herself and he can't share his problems because he is a Man and doesnt want to burden her. Plus she has to save him from dying a year in future somehow, even though in 10 years time she is married and has a kid, I assume with someone else? I didn't get that far. Why she and her friendship group care so much about this one guy I don't know. He doesnt seem like he's making any effort to be liked.
Art work is all right, typical shoujo. I'm not too keen on it, but that's just more my preference than anything else.
tl;dr : In all honesty, I think I just expected too much from this. If you're looking for a standard girl-meets-boy cliche, then check out Orange. If you're looking for something a bit deeper then this isn't for you. Or at least do what I did and just read the first two chapters, I don't think you'll need to go any further than that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Dec 3, 2016
I don't really enjoy ecchi works. Not really. This series is super ecchi and yet I still love it anyway. Why? Because this manga is just outright ridiculous and I love it for it.
Prison School really does not take itself seriously. At first there is a vague sense of a plot, then it tumbles and tumbles out of control and with it, it just gets funnier and funnier. The plot in the current storyline has a group of four characters climbing up the back of one guy like a mountain, and if a girl has her hairbands removed, great tragedies happen. How? Why? Who
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knows. The thing is, I just don't care. It's that good.
There are four guys in an only girls school. Why? I can't remember the reason, but it was ridiculous. They get sent to prison in their school. How? The school president's father is the headmaster, so, he just lets them do it. Sure, OK. There are silly reasons for seeing ecchi moments, but its part of the charm. The characters are actually pretty decent, and I really enjoy the relationship between Hana and one of the main guys.
If you like ecchi, then great, you'll like this. Even if you don't like ecchi works though, who knows? You still may like it anyway. I know I do.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 5, 2015
Girl Friends is one of my first Yuri mangas I ever read, so the following review will be slightly biased towards it's favour.
It's not perfect, there is a lot of girl talk about make up and clothes and during the first few chapters there is little development. Mari is ridiculously oblivious in various points, but I can forgive it for that.
What makes Girl Friends great is the tension building between the two characters, the confusion with the lines between how you feel towards a friend and how you feel about someone you want as a partner, and the genuine love between them both
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- irregardless of if its platonic or if its romantic. Touching on the tension again, Girl Friends is one of the yuri mangas that gives me a little twist in my stomach when I read it, just because it builds up scenes so well as well as the awkwardness and obligatory yuri angst.
Plus, Akko is just an angel, it's worth it just to read for her. The two of them are both a little dense and trip over things awkwardly, but for me, that just sums up a typical teenage love story and these two have a great love story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 5, 2015
I would only recommend reading Aoi Hana if you were really desperately starved for some yuri in your life. As I know good yuri works are pretty hard to come by and if you are after some school-girl angsting yuri crush story, then yes. Give Aoi Hana a go. (Though I think Sasameki Koto is a lot better.)
Though Aoi Hana is looooooong. Long in the way that it drifts over to the side characters pretty much constantly and if you don't remember names well then it can be pretty confusing. A few times I was reading thinking 'wait who's this?' 'what's the deal with
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that?' when really all I would rather the story focus on is the development between Akira and Yumi.
Akira is a great character. I have nothing but love for Akira. Though, Yumi, our lesbian-angsting main character... leaves a lot to be desired. Expecting lots of angsting and Yumi feeling sorry for herself. And crying a lot.
I am probably being a little hard on the series, but I just didn't feel that Aoi Hana deserved the hype that it got. Yumi's relationship with one of the schoolgirls was hard to read ("get me my towel" "yes! of course!") and even with Akira being adorable, it doesn't make up for everything else going on.
Though Akira IS adorable. If I was rating this for Akira, she would get a solid 9~
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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