With MAL seemingly on the verge of dying a laggy death, and my desire for long-arse messages all but gone, making threads in dead sub-forums is a bit of a no-no for me, these days. But this has to be asked: How can a manga so short and SWWEEET, with art of this caliber, be SO underrated AND underread!? I seriously don't get it. It's my new #10 manga and it isn't as if I hand-out 9-10/10 scores like a child molester outside a school for tweens. As difficult to please as an experienced prostitute in bed, I am. I read through some of the Baka-Updates reviews/comments in an attempt to understand why only I seem deeply impressed with this psychologically thrilling take on the childhood love triangle cliche. Those not moved by it either A) typed that the content disturbed them too much or B) typed that its story made no sense. Naturally, this makes little sense to me in-turn when there's MUCH more graphic, disturbing manga in existence and it was always obvious what type of story SWWEEET was, and where it was heading. I'll admit that it never crossed my mind that the characters were supposed to only be 13ish until after finishing, but age is just a number in the case of fictional characters and Sakura never made me thing she was an innocent youngling. Right from the very beginning, I was hooked. The idea of a weakling brother conversing with his 'missing twin' via a mirror was a great way of developing Susomu's character and the love triangle, under the circumstances, and starting the story with an heroic charge gone wrong - like they tend to in real life - was a terrific way to introduce the characters. Sakura clearly had A LOT of mental baggage and was far from your typical damsel in distress, and that made the future developments all the more compelling. I was always guessing about what happened in the past to screw things up so badly. At first I simply assumed Susomu developed a split personality as a kid and, for whatever reason, sealed the confident half of himself off; resulting in Sakura distancing herself because she didn't love the weak-arse side of him. So, when it was hinted that, instead, what had occurred was some kind of twin complex/love triangle being resolved with murder-death-kill, it's fair to say I found myself quite excited by the turn of events. I can't say SWWEEET is perfection or the like when the memory loss card got played x2, with both Sakura and Susomu somehow forgetting/getting confused and remembering everything in-sync. But that's the only flaw of note. It's true I have a thing for childhood love triangles, and that SWWEEET reminding me of Touch done darker added to my enjoyment, but I still find myself kind of annoyed to see so little love. ...Anyone want to share their thoughts a lil' before updating their lists and buggering off from SWWEEET's MAL page for all eternity? |
| I also believe SWWEEET is severely underrated. Reminds me a little bit of Aku no Hana. It got me hooked since the very beginning. Sort of disturbing: nevertheless, a great psychological manga. I also thought some things were a little rushed or did not make much sense - it may have seemed convenient for both of them to regain their memories simultaneously. However, that does not bother me. What is more surprising is that SWWEEET was Aoyama's debut manga. What a way to start your career as a mangaka. Aoyama did a great job surprising his readers with the ending outcome. I was not expecting it. Great manga. I also found out that the mangaka Aoyama Kei committed suicide last year. I'm really sad. |
| "We should be more proud of NEETs! Love the country that strives to produce NEETs, for world peace, we must stand up! We must find more non NEET-in-waiting elites, learn from each other , form a new Japanese Party, and bravely challenge the evil! Grow, NEETs! Grow like blazing fire! NEETs!” |
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