SPOILERS
I don't remember what made me pick this one up. I just saw it, decided to give it a read, and that's the end of it, I guess. So what do I think of Akuma to Love Song...
I'll be frank, for as much as I love it, I hate it too. No, not for reasons I've seen like 'I hate the drawings' or 'I hate Meguro'. No, my problem is with EVERYONE in this manga.
Let's be honest, yes, Maria seems like one of those people that may be a little hard to get along with. She's frank and speaks her mind, one of those people that irk the breathing hell out of most. However, at some point, when these students are going to the point of treating her to this extent as well as the teachers and just ANYONE she runs into, you have to wonder who the hell are these people she's forced to be around? I can't even blame her for possibly being cold, I wouldn't wanna be around all these pricks either.
The fact is this gets way too hard to swallow after a while. It's like a LINE of people that hate Maria for pretty much just open honesty. I guess the truth hurts but really, being a bitch about it might just prove her point further. This story with Anna kills me the most, this girl that was supposedly her best friend turns out to hate her and then gets in the way of her and Meguro's relationship. How low must they fall?
I saw a lot of Yuusuke fanshipping on boards but I really don't like him that much in terms of being with Maria. To me, he is the friend. You don't go skipping around, melding lines with love with the friend. I don't mean A friend, I mean "the friend", just to clarify. That's the guy that advises you how to not do this, the one that's there to make sure you're not doing something crazy, the guy that looks out for you. And when you skew those lines, it seems to me that maybe you have the ideal guy, the protector, the one who looks out for your best interests, but you still lose something there and stand to lose something if it continues.
That said, Meguro definitely needs to man up and get over this BS Anna fed him. "If she's hugged, she'll be reminded of her mother that committed suicide!" So really? This poor girl is just going to go her entire life without any chance of physical contact? That's what therapy is for, dears. Especially since Maria clearly wants a relationship with you, it's not fair to deny her when you want it too just because she or you might want to get snuggly.
Grade: A to C-
At it's best, you get Maria opening up and expressing her adoration of Meguro. At it's 'kill me now', you get people pretty much going to impossible lengths to make her life useless. Honestly, if I had that teacher, I would have definitely switched schools. Or beat him the hell up.
This needs to get scanlated A LOT faster too. I was reading a summary of ten chapters AHEAD of what's currently translated from 2009! That's some American serialization rates XP But as for suggestion, give it a go. The drawings are different than standard manga, Maria's got some very pouty lips. And at times, it looks very amateurish. But if you want a good lesson on how to not treat people, let this be your handbook on how to be a good person.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Manga: Skip Beat! Review
Back in the days when I purchased Shojo Beat monthly, I read the sneak preview of this little manga called "Skip Beat!". It was kind of cute and clever and bizarre. However, giving the first volume a readsy in the book store, I was a little bored with it. Woohoo, girl trying to get back at evil guy. Woop-de-doo...
So I gave it up for some time. I didn't have good internet access up until this last Fall and I finally could catch up with my series. Even though it'd been, oh, half a year, I caught up way too easily..so I decided, well, people love it for some reason, lemme see what's up with this story.
LOVE IT!
Summary:
The basics of it is that Kyoko moves to the city, dropping out of school, all to support the love of her life, Sho(taro). She works night and day to support his dream of being a rock star, sacrificing all her comforts just for him. She's that devoted and seems to dream of marrying him one day. Of course, one day she finds out that he's just using her and moves out of their crappy apartment to live with his manager. JERKKKK.
Now, why Kyoko decides to go with acting is a little beyond me but she chooses that to get better than Sho and outdo him pretty much. In this lapse, she meets Sho's rival (which I might have to reread initial chapters because uh, how is a rock star going to go and rival against an actor/model?). Tsuruga Ren is mean and condescending to poor Kyoko as well, mostly because she's not acting for the right reasons, it seems. However, it's the complications that make this a really fun read.
I'm sure someone does but it's really hard to hate Kyoko. Everyone has that character where they're like, ugh, you're stupid. But I think it's Kyoko's naivety that truly makes her what she is and it's not excruciatingly painful to watch her in the sticky situations.
SPOILER
I know there is hardcore Sho vs. Ren wars but I'm going to be a wuss and say that I adore both of them. Although I will admit I might just like Sho because he makes Ren's defeats of his endeavors disappear. I'm thinking of that Valentine's Day shenanigans, easily one of the funniest portions of the story even when it was serious. My favorite had to be that internal gunfight Kyoko and Sho are having during the "kiss". And I couldn't help snicker when Ren was slowly starting towards them, you just KNEW he was about to kill Sho. And the part that cracked me up the most was after Ren got his turn in and Kyoko got stuck in "spin cycle" mode and Ren's just standing there, watching like "..."
Grade: A
For just all around shojo fun, this is it. Comedy, drama, romance, denial of romance, it's all there. And it's even got a but of mystery to it about these bizarre pasts of these people. Even Kyoko has a questionable back story I can't wait to see more of. Her mother apparently hates her, after all...
(Aside, but if I were honest...Team Ren <3)
So I gave it up for some time. I didn't have good internet access up until this last Fall and I finally could catch up with my series. Even though it'd been, oh, half a year, I caught up way too easily..so I decided, well, people love it for some reason, lemme see what's up with this story.
LOVE IT!
Summary:
The basics of it is that Kyoko moves to the city, dropping out of school, all to support the love of her life, Sho(taro). She works night and day to support his dream of being a rock star, sacrificing all her comforts just for him. She's that devoted and seems to dream of marrying him one day. Of course, one day she finds out that he's just using her and moves out of their crappy apartment to live with his manager. JERKKKK.
Now, why Kyoko decides to go with acting is a little beyond me but she chooses that to get better than Sho and outdo him pretty much. In this lapse, she meets Sho's rival (which I might have to reread initial chapters because uh, how is a rock star going to go and rival against an actor/model?). Tsuruga Ren is mean and condescending to poor Kyoko as well, mostly because she's not acting for the right reasons, it seems. However, it's the complications that make this a really fun read.
I'm sure someone does but it's really hard to hate Kyoko. Everyone has that character where they're like, ugh, you're stupid. But I think it's Kyoko's naivety that truly makes her what she is and it's not excruciatingly painful to watch her in the sticky situations.
SPOILER
I know there is hardcore Sho vs. Ren wars but I'm going to be a wuss and say that I adore both of them. Although I will admit I might just like Sho because he makes Ren's defeats of his endeavors disappear. I'm thinking of that Valentine's Day shenanigans, easily one of the funniest portions of the story even when it was serious. My favorite had to be that internal gunfight Kyoko and Sho are having during the "kiss". And I couldn't help snicker when Ren was slowly starting towards them, you just KNEW he was about to kill Sho. And the part that cracked me up the most was after Ren got his turn in and Kyoko got stuck in "spin cycle" mode and Ren's just standing there, watching like "..."
Grade: A
For just all around shojo fun, this is it. Comedy, drama, romance, denial of romance, it's all there. And it's even got a but of mystery to it about these bizarre pasts of these people. Even Kyoko has a questionable back story I can't wait to see more of. Her mother apparently hates her, after all...
(Aside, but if I were honest...Team Ren <3)
Manga: Hellsing Review
So I was the one in the high school group that liked pretty plotted manga that wasn't...
Okay, it wasn't Hellsing, basically.
If I could easily lay a plot for this story, I would. I think it basically goes like there's a cop, the cop is named Seras and she is killed, Alucard, a vampire, makes her his sire...
From them on, your guess is as good as mine...?
SPOILERS
Hellsing is one of those stories where there's a plot but there really isn't. I know that seems nonsensical but then maybe that's the point. Alucard is pretty much indebted to serve this woman, Integra (you know how most manga you look at men and confuse them for women? Integra was the first time I confused a woman for man) and I guess his duty is to keep errant vampires in their place.
Alucard himself is a bit of a nutjob, I have to say. I guess he's entitled to be as zany as he wants but when reading it I often found myself raising an eye at some of the shenanigans.
Kohta Hirano has a bizarre sense of humor and I often found myself confused by the stuff he'd throw in. Like, if you're talking to your friends, any number of subjects can show up. To this day, Alucard's dream about shock goth singer, Marilyn Manson manages to just puzzle me in the larger scheme of things...x.x
This story also had been a pain because of just how slow it localized. The one of us that collected it complained about this often and I often stated dryly the guy admitted that he spent most of his time jerking off (seriously admits this in his author's notes).
Grade: C+
This manga is one of the more difficult ones to read if you're looking for finesse. I actually stopped reading it for a time (still haven't gotten to the ending) because I was just sick of pages of just utter gore. Fine, maybe two pages of just violence but when I had to flip through almost six to seven pages of just hoards of creatures biting off soldier's faces, it was a bit too much (though I don't know if I'm biased, I do love Berserk)
The Nazi thing, admittedly, is also weird, as is the Catholic priest guy though I suppose clever...just still odd.
The saving grace of this manga, to me, is the moments. 'The moments'? I mean those moments where you're just like, 'wow, that's intense' or you're almost astounded by what occurs. One of my key favorite moments had to be where Rip was sitting on a ship with her gun, probably full of herself...and then Alucard comes with this huge jet and directs it right down at the ship. Rip freaks out and starts shooting and the ship becomes like a gigantic black ominous thing. It was just one of those scenes that made it almost doable to get through dozens of pages of gore.
Though admittedly I lost a lot of interest after that one army guy that liked Seras died :/ Then again, this is one story that would probably be stupid to get attached to characters.
Read the first three volumes before you pass judgment. While it wasn't
Okay, it wasn't Hellsing, basically.
If I could easily lay a plot for this story, I would. I think it basically goes like there's a cop, the cop is named Seras and she is killed, Alucard, a vampire, makes her his sire...
From them on, your guess is as good as mine...?
SPOILERS
Hellsing is one of those stories where there's a plot but there really isn't. I know that seems nonsensical but then maybe that's the point. Alucard is pretty much indebted to serve this woman, Integra (you know how most manga you look at men and confuse them for women? Integra was the first time I confused a woman for man) and I guess his duty is to keep errant vampires in their place.
Alucard himself is a bit of a nutjob, I have to say. I guess he's entitled to be as zany as he wants but when reading it I often found myself raising an eye at some of the shenanigans.
Kohta Hirano has a bizarre sense of humor and I often found myself confused by the stuff he'd throw in. Like, if you're talking to your friends, any number of subjects can show up. To this day, Alucard's dream about shock goth singer, Marilyn Manson manages to just puzzle me in the larger scheme of things...x.x
This story also had been a pain because of just how slow it localized. The one of us that collected it complained about this often and I often stated dryly the guy admitted that he spent most of his time jerking off (seriously admits this in his author's notes).
Grade: C+
This manga is one of the more difficult ones to read if you're looking for finesse. I actually stopped reading it for a time (still haven't gotten to the ending) because I was just sick of pages of just utter gore. Fine, maybe two pages of just violence but when I had to flip through almost six to seven pages of just hoards of creatures biting off soldier's faces, it was a bit too much (though I don't know if I'm biased, I do love Berserk)
The Nazi thing, admittedly, is also weird, as is the Catholic priest guy though I suppose clever...just still odd.
The saving grace of this manga, to me, is the moments. 'The moments'? I mean those moments where you're just like, 'wow, that's intense' or you're almost astounded by what occurs. One of my key favorite moments had to be where Rip was sitting on a ship with her gun, probably full of herself...and then Alucard comes with this huge jet and directs it right down at the ship. Rip freaks out and starts shooting and the ship becomes like a gigantic black ominous thing. It was just one of those scenes that made it almost doable to get through dozens of pages of gore.
Though admittedly I lost a lot of interest after that one army guy that liked Seras died :/ Then again, this is one story that would probably be stupid to get attached to characters.
Read the first three volumes before you pass judgment. While it wasn't
Manga: Rurouni Kenshin Review
My dad actually plays a part in my graphic novel obsession as he has thousands of comic books that I've enjoyed reading (when he lets me XP) And I'd fallen in love with 'Japanimation' like I'm sure quite a few people did watching Pokemon...I got Pokemon manga! Lol, I didn't know it was manga though. It was just 'comics'.
But doing Google searches, I found out about these types of books and found out about one called 'Rurouni Kenshin'. I had a thing for characters with long hair and Kenshin was just so adorable! I actually just read the textual translation of it for a while, I was so obsessed...but then it finally got translated.
The story follows Himura Kenshin, a 'rurouni', which if I recall was a fictional term coined by it's creator Nobuhiro Watsuki. He basically travels around pretty aimlessly, armed only with his reverse blade. He comes across a young girl, Kamiya Kaoru, who instantly attacks him, thinking he is Hitokiri Battousai, whom has been going around town declaring he's of the school of Kamiya, her family dojo. After clearing up these mistakes and some confessions, we get the classic manga.
This manga carried my crew through high school mostly and I was always diligent in buying the next volume when it came out. Shonen manga for me at that time was where it was at. Violence, occasional romance, it was amazing. Nowadays though, shonen has this horrible attribute of DRAGGING. Now yes, Kenshin was 28 (29?) volumes long but, uh, it still ended...has Naruto or One Piece or any of those others finished and exactly WHAT chapter are they on?
Another suspiciously similar story my group read was Samurai Deeper Kyo...for a time. My co-writer to Miru's story said that it was good for the first few volumes but it has this weird shonen attribute: 'there's always someone stronger'.
This basically means that the group goes after this one person, declaring them to be a challenge then out of nowhere comes this even stronger person...? Realistically, I GUESS, but you have to admit when a story's long enough and suddenly this guy they've pursued for the last five volumes isn't the strongest anymore and they have to go after this next person, it's like, 'the f--k?'
That's where Kenshin seemed to excel to me because, well, Kenshin basically is the best :P While Kenshin went against increasingly better opponents as the volumes progressed, it wasn't the same concept to me where like the better guy comes and defeats the guy that everyone assumed was the best because the protagonists said he was and now they have this other guy and it's like 'oh no!'...no, no, with Kenshin it was like, 'wow, I keep running into stronger people'. And in fact the one that declared he was the strongest ended up being one of the weakest, sooo...
SPOILERS
One pratfall I'd say in Kenshin may have been that part where they thought Kaoru was dead...that was a tad weird and soap opera death scene. And Kenshin just being insane with grief was cute but it sure didn't last that long...then again, he was renewed so I guess he didn't have to stay depressed. Either way.
Watsuki writes in his liner notes that he was actually influenced by American comic books and it kind of shows a lot from time to time...I honestly have to cringe at his character I believe was named Jin-eh or something...he basically was Gambit from X-Men. His eyes, his hair, his head band, I was like, 'woah, crossovers!'. While I'm all for being influenced, that was kind of much...
I only watched a little of the anime...I hate anime filler so much XP I think it followed pretty well but when I read about one episode where apparently the groups on a train about to go take a photograph and someone attacks them...if I remember correctly, Kenshin gets knocked off somehow and it's all 'what shall we do?!' then...Kenshin rides up on a horse? x.X;; Nobody knocks me off a train and gets away with it! High ho, Silver! I mean, a horse? Where'd he get a horse, is he magical? Oh, anime...
Aoshi at the end in the tuxedo-y kind of thing reminded me of the Godfather :P
Grade: A+ to A-
A quinessential classic manga worth a read if you're into that kind of thing. Has pretty awesome characters that I have always enjoyed and wraps up with a happy ending. However, I'm aware that there is a non-canonical tale called 'Samurai X' and I just read the premise for it and nearly cried...then my two kind of stoic emotioned friends said it traumatized and upset them so...not going to watch that unless I really, really wanna cry x.X
Well, not much more to be said, definitely one of my favorites ^_^ I'd have it on a must read list if I had one.
But doing Google searches, I found out about these types of books and found out about one called 'Rurouni Kenshin'. I had a thing for characters with long hair and Kenshin was just so adorable! I actually just read the textual translation of it for a while, I was so obsessed...but then it finally got translated.
The story follows Himura Kenshin, a 'rurouni', which if I recall was a fictional term coined by it's creator Nobuhiro Watsuki. He basically travels around pretty aimlessly, armed only with his reverse blade. He comes across a young girl, Kamiya Kaoru, who instantly attacks him, thinking he is Hitokiri Battousai, whom has been going around town declaring he's of the school of Kamiya, her family dojo. After clearing up these mistakes and some confessions, we get the classic manga.
This manga carried my crew through high school mostly and I was always diligent in buying the next volume when it came out. Shonen manga for me at that time was where it was at. Violence, occasional romance, it was amazing. Nowadays though, shonen has this horrible attribute of DRAGGING. Now yes, Kenshin was 28 (29?) volumes long but, uh, it still ended...has Naruto or One Piece or any of those others finished and exactly WHAT chapter are they on?
Another suspiciously similar story my group read was Samurai Deeper Kyo...for a time. My co-writer to Miru's story said that it was good for the first few volumes but it has this weird shonen attribute: 'there's always someone stronger'.
This basically means that the group goes after this one person, declaring them to be a challenge then out of nowhere comes this even stronger person...? Realistically, I GUESS, but you have to admit when a story's long enough and suddenly this guy they've pursued for the last five volumes isn't the strongest anymore and they have to go after this next person, it's like, 'the f--k?'
That's where Kenshin seemed to excel to me because, well, Kenshin basically is the best :P While Kenshin went against increasingly better opponents as the volumes progressed, it wasn't the same concept to me where like the better guy comes and defeats the guy that everyone assumed was the best because the protagonists said he was and now they have this other guy and it's like 'oh no!'...no, no, with Kenshin it was like, 'wow, I keep running into stronger people'. And in fact the one that declared he was the strongest ended up being one of the weakest, sooo...
SPOILERS
One pratfall I'd say in Kenshin may have been that part where they thought Kaoru was dead...that was a tad weird and soap opera death scene. And Kenshin just being insane with grief was cute but it sure didn't last that long...then again, he was renewed so I guess he didn't have to stay depressed. Either way.
Watsuki writes in his liner notes that he was actually influenced by American comic books and it kind of shows a lot from time to time...I honestly have to cringe at his character I believe was named Jin-eh or something...he basically was Gambit from X-Men. His eyes, his hair, his head band, I was like, 'woah, crossovers!'. While I'm all for being influenced, that was kind of much...
I only watched a little of the anime...I hate anime filler so much XP I think it followed pretty well but when I read about one episode where apparently the groups on a train about to go take a photograph and someone attacks them...if I remember correctly, Kenshin gets knocked off somehow and it's all 'what shall we do?!' then...Kenshin rides up on a horse? x.X;; Nobody knocks me off a train and gets away with it! High ho, Silver! I mean, a horse? Where'd he get a horse, is he magical? Oh, anime...
Aoshi at the end in the tuxedo-y kind of thing reminded me of the Godfather :P
Grade: A+ to A-
A quinessential classic manga worth a read if you're into that kind of thing. Has pretty awesome characters that I have always enjoyed and wraps up with a happy ending. However, I'm aware that there is a non-canonical tale called 'Samurai X' and I just read the premise for it and nearly cried...then my two kind of stoic emotioned friends said it traumatized and upset them so...not going to watch that unless I really, really wanna cry x.X
Well, not much more to be said, definitely one of my favorites ^_^ I'd have it on a must read list if I had one.
Manga: Tail of the Moon Review
So from Freshman to Senior year of high school, I was under this impression that I had to, oh, buy manga. Lol, it's really horrible, it's kind of like this progression that people have made, looking at it online rather than purchasing it but I bought the complete Rurouni Kenshin series. I'm not regretting it but $7.95/book and 20+ chapters, that's just...a lot of money, especially for a high school student with no job. Not to mention with online translators, we can have the whole series out while the first issue is just seeing American bookshelves...
Nevertheless, I still bought Shojo Beat for a time before it started getting weird (Also, Vampire Knight was getting like...beast translated compared to the rate the story was going, as was NANA) and was intrigued by this story...
Tsuki no Shippo (translated Tail of the Moon) is a series by Rinko Ueda centered around a wannabe ninja named Usagi. 'Oh God, another ninja story?' you probably say but this isn't a Naruto.
Usagi is pretty much an all around failure at being a ninja or trying to even gain the honor to be called one. Alas, she is a very skilled herbalist (I was left wondering why THIS wasn't pursued as a career instead of something she is entirely horrible at) who lives with her grandfather and, for all purposes, her adopted son, Mamezo. He seems to be fed up with her and sends her to woo local clan leader, Hattori Hanzo, in order to gain her ninja status. Problem is Hanzo isn't quite, oh, interested. Then you get the normal shoujo plot.
However, Ueda does have a lot more depth below the surface of her stories than most shoujo manga. It's not all endless fluff and I do admire that she's not afraid to just kill off a character every now and again. I think some shoujo manga play out like soap operas when it comes to this task: they're pretty much dead but somehow surpassed death and are living on a hidden island somewhere. Not to say this doesn't happen in the story but you'll see what I mean.
SPOILERS
I don't really recall what volume it was but Mamezo apparently is the son of some elite people who mysteriously lose him in the forest...? Questionable at best, I'd say, but the resulting story just pissed me off and I basically refuse to read it. Alas, it was one of those writings that was still impressive because you get an idea how people would react to these situations (SPOILER: The parents have another child and refuse to acknowledge Mamezo because they already had accepted that he was dead...to me, this is utterly tragic and downright selfish in all manners) Again, while too hard to accept, it's still kind of interesting...
GRADE: A- to B+
I loved this story. It made me laugh, it made me angry, and it made me sad. It covered a lot of ranges and still made for a nice ending. It's kind of the mantra I go for in my stories XD
I do have a few issues, NATURALLY. Now, I loved Goemon, he was my favorite. In fact I kind of thought Usagi and him could have had a brief tryst to explore feelings even if nothing came of it but I guess not...I was super against him and Yuri though, I just hate that 'let's pair the two extra people together!' kind of thing like it wasn't even anticipated and I don't even get the idea Goemon liked her that much ^^; (I'd say the ending was him just giving in XP)
Rant aside, did we ever figure out exactly why Goemon broke off the engagement...? Some things with Yukimaru bugged me as well and there was a lot of plots that died off a little too easily at times too.
A definite pro that I think Ueda definitely should be applauded for though is her characters actually APPEARED older at the end of this manga! Like, I mean, not SO old it's like thirty years passed or the only change was they got a haircut after ten years but look the same. They look as if they've aged reasonably and I was super impressed.
Oh yes, the men were hot. Definitely worth a read :)
Nevertheless, I still bought Shojo Beat for a time before it started getting weird (Also, Vampire Knight was getting like...beast translated compared to the rate the story was going, as was NANA) and was intrigued by this story...
Tsuki no Shippo (translated Tail of the Moon) is a series by Rinko Ueda centered around a wannabe ninja named Usagi. 'Oh God, another ninja story?' you probably say but this isn't a Naruto.
Usagi is pretty much an all around failure at being a ninja or trying to even gain the honor to be called one. Alas, she is a very skilled herbalist (I was left wondering why THIS wasn't pursued as a career instead of something she is entirely horrible at) who lives with her grandfather and, for all purposes, her adopted son, Mamezo. He seems to be fed up with her and sends her to woo local clan leader, Hattori Hanzo, in order to gain her ninja status. Problem is Hanzo isn't quite, oh, interested. Then you get the normal shoujo plot.
However, Ueda does have a lot more depth below the surface of her stories than most shoujo manga. It's not all endless fluff and I do admire that she's not afraid to just kill off a character every now and again. I think some shoujo manga play out like soap operas when it comes to this task: they're pretty much dead but somehow surpassed death and are living on a hidden island somewhere. Not to say this doesn't happen in the story but you'll see what I mean.
SPOILERS
I don't really recall what volume it was but Mamezo apparently is the son of some elite people who mysteriously lose him in the forest...? Questionable at best, I'd say, but the resulting story just pissed me off and I basically refuse to read it. Alas, it was one of those writings that was still impressive because you get an idea how people would react to these situations (SPOILER: The parents have another child and refuse to acknowledge Mamezo because they already had accepted that he was dead...to me, this is utterly tragic and downright selfish in all manners) Again, while too hard to accept, it's still kind of interesting...
GRADE: A- to B+
I loved this story. It made me laugh, it made me angry, and it made me sad. It covered a lot of ranges and still made for a nice ending. It's kind of the mantra I go for in my stories XD
I do have a few issues, NATURALLY. Now, I loved Goemon, he was my favorite. In fact I kind of thought Usagi and him could have had a brief tryst to explore feelings even if nothing came of it but I guess not...I was super against him and Yuri though, I just hate that 'let's pair the two extra people together!' kind of thing like it wasn't even anticipated and I don't even get the idea Goemon liked her that much ^^; (I'd say the ending was him just giving in XP)
Rant aside, did we ever figure out exactly why Goemon broke off the engagement...? Some things with Yukimaru bugged me as well and there was a lot of plots that died off a little too easily at times too.
A definite pro that I think Ueda definitely should be applauded for though is her characters actually APPEARED older at the end of this manga! Like, I mean, not SO old it's like thirty years passed or the only change was they got a haircut after ten years but look the same. They look as if they've aged reasonably and I was super impressed.
Oh yes, the men were hot. Definitely worth a read :)
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