Jan 16, 2009
Introduction
This manga is romance, drama and seinen (with a bit of comedy) genre. This is my first review here, so yoroshiku kudasai^^
Story - 8
The story is about the main character guy (Suwa Daisuke) who doesn't see the main character girl (Aikawa Hinako) as his type of girl for being extremely shy and reserved. But then, Daisuke finds out a dark, sad and repulsive secret about Hinako which caused her big fear of men and this information leads to him pitying her and thinking differently about her. He totally understands why she acted the way she acted all this time, and so, decides to protect her,
...
while falling in love for her more and more.
The plot isn't too original and a little simple, but tha manga is short anyway, and the creator did great in performing it. Daisuke is extremely cautious of not scaring the girl away, like I said, and after a while, Hinako starts falling in in for Daisuke too, but Daisuke doesn't dare to get close to the girl, knowing she has a fear of men and he's a guy too. This goes on for a while, until things start unraveling between the characters, secrets become discovered, and things have to resolve.
Art - 6
The art of this manga kind of reminds me of a mixture of shounen and shoujo. I thought it was OK. The main character girl didn't seem too pretty in the beginning, but she seemed cuter after a while to me, so I think the artist did a good job there. A con could be that it seems as if the artist reuses drawings a lot, and especially the main character girl I see in the same poses a lot.
NOTE: I'm not objective when it comes to art. Manga with extreme shoujo art such as NANA would receive a terrible rating from me at art, even if many people think it's beautiful. So you don't have to care about what I write here :P
Characters - 8
Being a short four-volume manga, there weren't too many characters, so I'll write a bit about the more important ones
There were two characters I think are really worth mentioning, because I think they have good personalities, and that's Daisuke and his sister, Suwa Izumi. I'll talk a litle about them first, and after that, the other characters:
The awesome thing about Daisuke was that when he says to himself that he loves the girl, he really means it. He is also always afraid of scaring away the girl, which is cute. Although he doesn't seem to have the balls to dump his "girlfriend" (which is bad), he's a very good guy.
Then there's his sister, Izumi, who seemed to have a tough, but loving personality, with a weird way of thinking, but still she was cool and it was a good idea to have her in the manga. She has her own subplot in the manga about being pregnant, but I won't spoil anything.
Now the other characters:
Hinako was kind of monotone and calculable, but was a good role for the plot.
The antagonist-sort of character, Ibuse Kazuki, is terrible and ridiculously evil and messes things up, but thank God the creator didn't take it too far. You'll see.
There was Daisuke's childhood friend girl too, Yamamoto Yuzu, who is cool until the middle, but does something really stupid near the end.
Enjoyment - 10
Reading this manga was rare enjoyment to me.
+ The romance was very sweet, and they showed the characters thoughts a lot
+ The drama was really good
+ Daisuke, of who's point we see the story most of, was a very good and correct guy
+ There were good twists in the plot
+ The story didn't take any obstacle too far
+ It was very exciting
+ The comedy elements didn't ruin the story
Ending - 9
Since you cannot put spoiler tags in reviews anymore, all I can say is I was really satisfied with the ending. It also contains some mature thinking.
Overall - 10 For me, Overall = [Enjoyment+Ending]/2 rounded up. The rest are just motivations to continue to read something :P
I haven't found an anime or manga that got a 10 for me in a long time. I think it was a great romance drama, where the creator didn't mess things up during the manga or the ending. It was a very big hit for me, a romance fan. I say this anime should be a must-read to romance drama fans, but for people who aren't a big fan of romance dramas, I don't recommend it, and it is also possible that someone might not enjoy this manga for thinking the girl's dark secret is repulsive themselves.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
