Hyakujuu No Ou Ni Tsugu! by Takara Akegami
Art and story (c) Takara Akegami |
Genre: Shojo
Length: One Volume – 4 Chapters plus a one-shot
Its typical for manga to have huge eyes, but with this manga sometimes the face shape and the eyes together made for a pair that looked a little alien. In conjunction with that, the art was fairly generic, though drawn well. The clothes, too, they were cute but mostly casual clothes or school uniforms with out much originality put into them. The backgrounds were adequate, though a little
heavier on the blank side and anything else. There were also a few too many blush lines for my taste, which, in the best of manga, is not an attribute I particularly like. Really, there's not much to complain or praise as far as the art goes.
Yuka, after confronting a suspicious man outside of school finds he actually a reporter looking for cute and stylish high school girls for a magazine article, and even takes her picture as a reference. This is how Yuka's life goes, as the most popular girl in her all-female school, she's always the center of attention. When she gets home, the reporter is there, though, and that’s when things start to get complicated.
Another manga about an older man and a high school girl, its a common theme, but I can't bring my self to say I liked this one. I found the male lead too mean, and the female lead annoying. It had one redeeming factor which I'll get to at the end. Until then, I'll start off at the beginning: Yuka is just about the worst; she's spoiled and vain and falls for Shinohara (the older man) just about instantly because he's handsome. I really can't stand anything she does, because she acts like the center of the universe. To make matters worse, Shinohara is just about the worst, too, both as a match for Yuka's type as well as my preferences go for male leads. He's downright mean to Yuka right from the beginning and isn't nice until the very end by which point I couldn't care less for either one of them or
This story was much less generic and rage-inducing |
Main story rating: 1/5 Generic and the couple annoy more than anything else. Just skip it.
Ending One-shot rating: 5/5 Cute and interesting with a twist you may not see coming. Just read this chapter and ignore the main story completely.
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