Kaichou San No Koneko

Its the end of summer, though here in California during a drought it doesn't much seem like it...

Still, that means all those youngsters are going to be going back to school once again. So this month I'm going to try and find some school life manga to review. Boy, time sure does fly when you're reading manga.


Kaichou San No Koneko by Kazuko Furumiya

Art and story (c) Kazuko Furumiya

Genre: Shojo
Length One Volume - 3 Chapters with an unrelated one-shot


            The art is a little generic, and at times it looks a little ungainly, but really there isn't much I can remember to really nitpick on. I suppose the one thing would be that the eye glasses at times looked simply drawn over the faces instead of looking like the person was wearing them. That aside, the main character of this manga, as indicated by the title 'The Student Council President's Cat' is the
cat, and she is super cute. It just seems squishy like it has no bones, and the big innocent eyes make it hard not to love the thing. I think I better go and hug one of my fur babies to fulfill the need this manga has created.
           Reiichirou Hayami is a very strict person, so much so that he is basically unlikeable. One day when he returns home after school, he finds his house ransacked by a little creature, brought in by his estranged mother of all people, a selfish woman who comes and goes as she pleases. His mother, in typical style, asks him to care for the kitten in her place because she has better things to do. Totally out of his element, and his last nerve fraying, the student council president goes out to find a book to help him, but being caught red handed by a girl he often scolds with a book filled with cute kitten pictures, something completely out of character for him, he instead takes the other council member with him to help him instead. She seems to know everything about cat care and he wonders if the kitten would be better off in her hands instead of his own.
           Cute, though the ending is a little annoying. It feels very much like it should have continued on but it doesn't, and I really wanted to see the two as a couple a little; to see the boy act more like an idiot, actually. I've already mentioned the little kitty, but I'll bring it up again, that thing is like an overdose of cute, but Hayami-kun is adorably uptight and nervous so there’s more than just the cute animal that keeps you reading, and interest for the characters is generated almost immediately. That being said, the story is the weak point of this manga because the characters are not given enough personality to really stand on their own beyond the first chapter. The student council president himself is a really old trope, and not much else beyond that. The main girl is the helpful, air headed type who is only a place holder because she could have been any girl ever and the story would have been the same. I also found the extra one-shot a bore. Beyond the first chapter nothing changes or is expanded on, there is a whole back story of the main character so you expect it, too, but its simply not given after that. Going in, I was looking for a cute school life story, and I found it, but there really isn't much originality here I'm afraid. As a cat lover, I loved it because the cat is so cute and perfect, but as a manga reviewer I found everything beyond that more than a little cliché.


3/5 Mostly because I love that kitten, damn it.

*explodes with cuteness*