Pleinair-5 said: well, I was curious and it looked interesting, then it hooked me from the first chapter. I love how it's a love manga but doesn't follow the shoujo manga mold. Actually, it's kinda like a shounen love manga, and I like shounen 10x better then shoujo manga most of the time
It is actually seinen, BTW. It is in the same magazine as Oh My Goddess.
I started reading it when I heard it was getting an anime adaptation. I was curious because it was from the same magazine as my favorite manga/anime. (See above.) Three days later, I had, rather obsessively, read 64 chapters and was anxiously awaiting the release of chapter 65! I am a sucker for romance stories, and MGX is one of the best! It deals with the actual trials and tribulations of loving someone; the ups; the downs; the jealous moments; the insecurities; but most of all the joyous moments and the times when it is wonderful to have someone special to care for you or to care for. Most romance anime deal with the will-they-or-won't-they part of the relationship, with a love-triangle or love-polygon or harem that either leaves the ending up in the air, leading to lots of people that are upset with the final pairing, or is so obvious from the start that it has to truly excel in the writing in order to not be boring, since everyone knows who is going to be with whom. (Toradora! is one that succeeds, even though, just based on the title, it should be clear who will end up together. So is Ano Natsu de Matteru (Waiting in the Summer)) Very few start out with the main couple becoming a couple and then growing to know each other beyond that initial attraction. Sure, lots of shows deal with people growing to love one another and then finally confessing, and that covers a lot of the same territory, but my personal experience is much more akin to the way Tsubaki and Urabe got together. They met and there was something special about the other person that drew them together, then they started going out and learning about each other, and eventually grew to love one another beyond that initial, primal, instinctual gush of hormones that attracted them in the first place. Sure, most of the couples I know didn't involve drool, but if I think about it, it probably isn't the weirdest thing I have heard of! LOL! |