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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
crazy name, great manga, 20 Jan 2004
By A Customer
If you like shojo manga, or if you've never heard of it, this book is perfect. It's got good art, great characters, and a brilliant plot - what more can you ask? Oh, and bishounen too. How could I forget?The main character is a girl called Hatsumi who lives in a big company appartment complex. All the characters in the book (at least in this volume) are from the same complex and so they all connect in some way. Each character is very different, but they all feel very real. There's Hatsumi, the normal girl, nice, cute, but not particularly special. There's her sister, Akane, whose rather ... easy personality starts the whole thing off. Then there's the guys; Ryoki (mean and forceful), Subaru (geeky and ashamed of himself but a really genuinely nice guy) and of course the oh-so-cute Azusa, who is fun and friendly and just incredibly cool. ^_^ Next there's the plot - lots of interconnecting relationships, as I said before, but it's not bogged down in detail. The whole story moves quickly and the characters cut to the chase - less standing around staring wistfully at each other than in other shojo manga! Oh, you want to know what it's about? Well, Ryoki forces Hatsumi to be his slave (I'm not saying why) and then her childhood friend, Azusa turns up - he moved away years before. So emotions are quickly exploding everywhere; Hatsumi must escape Ryoki's power and stop Azusa getting the wrong idea, Ryoki must sort out his own feelings of inferiority, and Azusa .... well, he's good looking and popular, so for now he's got it easy. But not for long, I expect. ^_^ The drawings are good. Clean, nice backgrounds - not as flowery as Clamp or as simple as in Marmalade Boy, a nice in-between. It's rated 'for older teens' but it's OK for about 13/14+. And there are laughs, but it's not really a comedy. It's a down-to-earth, fast-paced, brilliant story about realistic people and it's a fantastic representative of shojo manga here in the UK! So go get it!
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