I will be going over the story, charters and art.
Story:
The story follows Ninako Kinoshita in her high school years..it is basically a story of her "first love" (which is the overall theme). She falls for Ren..who (surprise, surprise) is the most popular guy in the school. The only problem with this is that Ren has a girlfriend.
The story is cute but is sometimes overly sweet...like a tooth ache. Some parts are just overly cheesy and unrealistic.
Charters:
There are many charters in strobe edge but the main 2 are Ninako and Ren.
Ninako-Is the main character of our story. She is very childish and an airhead. Which is meant to be charming but come off as annoying. Which you can tell straight away when she buys sour apples because of what some clerk said who was just trying to get rid of the merchandise. She is contently tripping and falling over. Also she gets stuck to a tree because of piece of her hair gets stuck. How gullible and useless can you be? Especially, for a high school student.
Ren-He is the main charters main love interest. He is also suppose to be the cool, mature, mysterious popular guy. Although in the beginning it comes off as him just being cold. I really do not see the whole appeal of him. I also do not buy the connection between him and Ninako
Although the fact that he tried to stay faithful to his girlfriend give him some points. He does have a strong moral compass but overall he seems very unemotional.
I saved the best for last
Takumi Ando- A.K.A the second guy who appears to complete the love triangle for Ninako, who never had a chance at the main girl to begin with. Also the best written charter in the whole darn manga with a well rounded personality. He starts off as a player (after having his heartbroken by his first lover) then develops into a pretty okay guy. He tries to do the right thing and be honest with himself as the manga goes on- to bad he never had a chance.
All the rest of the charters don't really get developed and are just there for body decoration(except for Sayuri and Daiki who are just demoted to a side story).
Art:
The art for the manga is fine and clean at the start. I admit I am not a fan of the whole "duck face" look some of the drawings but I got over it. What I couldn't handle though was how every girl looks the same along with the guys.
Overall I find this manga to be very overrated it's ridiculous. the story is unrealistic, the charters are annoying and/or unemotional, and even though the art is nice all the charters look the same.
