narutolvr's manga / #showbiz(7)

Meh. Didn't really have a strong impact on me, maybe it could have stopped after 1 volume?

Eh, can't recall too much about it I don't think? But it was pretty good. The teacher (or was he a priest?) was an idiot, though.

Read this for the first time maybe 7 years ago and never got the chance to finish so I had to this time...kinda wish I hadn't- I should have left this series as a nice memory in my head. Now that I'm older and have read it all the way through, I can say I really didn't like it. It's not as if I hated it, it was just really bland. I was soooooo bored reading this it was ridiculous! The writing was lackluster and a little bit cheesy, the characters were dull and static with the exception of the male lead (such is the way shoujo goes I suppose). I thought the plot was extremely inconsistent like when the MC claims she found out about her brother on her mother's deathbed but a few chapters later says she would only wear her brother's old clothes when she was young OR the fact that she listed her birthplace as NY but the first chapter shows her mother dying in England and not one mention is ever made as to how/why they moved or even that they did move...there were just way too many holes left unexplained. Even though the characters' eyes bordered on way too big, the art wasn't bad at all. Ending was terrible; if I went all the way to Japan just to find my brother, best believe I'd damn sure ask any guy I suspected of being him! All in all, it was a waste of (my) time but I can imagine someone much younger would like it. I wish I could get back the 40 minutes I wasted reading this though...

Somehow, this read really quickly. I'm glad I got to see the uke stand up for himself; and the seme certainly became a slightly more tolerable asshole towards the end so it was a good read overall.

I really do love this author; I think her notes are written in such a casual and friendly way that you can really connect with her when you read them! It was a good story (and I'm glad we got to see a long work by her!) but I wish the ending hadn't been quite so corny. Also...I really wanted poos Akito to win! I love his character so much! Or, at the very least, I wish I could have seen Yoshimi get dumped, mature due to the heartbreak, and then come back and win him over again.

One of her more bland works, but still not bad.