I Love HS by Mayumi Yokoyama
Art and story (c) Mayumi Yokoyama |
Genre: Shojo
Length: 2 Volumes – 9 Chapters plus a few extras
The art is very polished, its the type with huge eyes and stylish hair, 2000's style. I was worried since they introduce six people in a row quite quickly that I'd have a hard time keeping them straight, but, thanks to them all looking completely different, it was no problem. I don't think there was a lot of variation to the face shapes, though. The main character's design is also a little generic, its nothing more than she has the same short bob that you see in every manga of this era, but that’s all it really takes to make her so. The backgrounds are a little more blank than usual, but it wasn't overly noticeable, and the clothes are cute and have lots of detail. The eyes, the huge eyes I should say, are well detailed with a hatching type of look, which most of the time were fine, but at times looked muddled instead of emotional. Body proportions and movement are really good. There isn't much to complain about, its all very professional looking.
In elementary school there were six friends, all growing up together they had a bond they shared, that bond being that one of their group mercilessly bullied the other five. Once the terror moved away, though, the others went to different middle schools and drifted apart. Megu, who got the worst of the bullying, is a little malcontent with her boring life, mostly because she never sees those old friends anymore, is surprised when one of them approaches her with big news. That old terror, one Yamato the punk, is back in town! Megu is equal parts intrigued and frightened, shes' harbored a crush all these years, but is still traumatized by his pranks. And it doesn't help that his mother's house is still next to her own, and their windows still face one another, and, was that a light inside she just saw?
Almost typical will-they-or-wont-they-have-sex plot from the third chapter onwards. A little disappointed there, actually, because it was cute and the couple were fun together, but I guess I should have seen it coming since the male lead is the lecherous type. I laughed practically all the way through this school romance, but it wasn't really memorable. The fist three chapters are fun, as the two childhood friends try to reconnect while avoiding being embarrassed by their known history. After that though there is two chapters of coercing the other two sets of friends together as couples, something that feels a little forced that
Uhm, what does that mean? |
2.5/5 Interesting hook, good art, but just generic high school manga romance.
Would be perfect if he just knew how to shut his mouth, cuz, hot damn! |
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