Seiyuu Ka!
Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy

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I start reading this manga after searching through Minami Maki sensei's work, and i found that many people said this manga was her best job, so i tried it. So here is my review...

Story (7/10)
For me the plot is pretty good because i have never read any shoujo manga that talks about being a seiyuu. So it is a quite interesting plot at first. But, for me, the problem here is the feeling that i got when reading this manga and when i finished it. I read it pretty fast at first because it still interesting, but at some point i'm becoming slower and slower. ... I don't think The problem that is developed in this manga is important or you can say that it is kinda forced maybe? And what is worse is the feeling that i got after finished the series. I feel so unsatisfied after reading this, the ending is rushed and there are a lot of things that is not cleared yet to me. So it is really dissapointing.

Art (7/10)
well, the art also not the best in this manga. But, i kinda like the style. The male face proportion is not right for me (maybe too long), but i love the female face.

Character (7/10)
At first i kinda like the character, especially the ML. He has a tsundere character and it is kinda funny to see everytime he blushing. But, at the end, once again i feel dissapointed (i just think he lost this part of him that is interesting and becoming just a normal boy). for the FL, i don't quite like this type of character since the first time i read shoujo manga. She just too cheerful and trying to act strong all the time. I like it when she act strong, but sometimes it just too much that it makes me sick.

Enjoyment (7/10)
At first i enjoy this manga. But, it becoming les and less interesting that i'm not enjoying it as much as i used to.

Overall (7/10)
I know a lot of people love this manga. but, i just don't get the feeling that i search in this manga. This manga still categorized as good for me and i still recommend it if u don't have shoujo manga anymore to read. And to let you know, although this review contain a lot of bad critique about this manga, i still think this manga is better than many shoujo manga i have ever read and i almost give it an 8 if it not for the rushed ending.

I'm going to try my best not to post spoilers for this review. Seiyuu Ka! as mentioned in the synopsis is about our heroine Kino Hime who wishes to become a famous seiyuu due to the influence of her idol Aoyama Sakura. Like any other bishoujo mangas, this one had the gender-bender category, so it was a tiny bit different from the usual.

Moving along:
1. Story - the plot wasn't very catchy enough for me. For me it felt like the same old manga where girls who has no talent/skills wants to enter the showbiz world and stumbles upon really hot guys, etc... But along ... the middle parts of this story, it had a good progress. I could actually read the character development of the heroine (kinda like skip beat's Kyoko) but all of the sudden... rush ending and loop holes.

2. Art - Lovely but the heroine's hairstyle of twin braids wasn't what I always enjoyed about. She looked really lovely when her hair was down or on a ponytail but I dunno... something about her hair in a braids didn't appeal to me. I personally prefer it up. As for the other characters (the reverse harem, mind you) as expected of them to be drawn hot and oozing with male testosterone.

3. Character - was focused mainly on the heroine. True, it was supposed to be her story, but it could have gone longer with her relationship with the other characters. Her relationship with her friends, her mother, her idol, etc... it had so much potential but it was all too sudden. Not just the heroine but the leading guy too (I forget his name. Senri?).

4. Enjoyment - I enjoyed the first few chapters but all in all, I have to say I'll give it a 6.

5. Overall - if you have spare time, you can check this manga out. I basically had time to spare and it seems this manga was already completed so I decided to give it a shot. It's an okay manga (for me).

So I finished Voice Over. Its hard to judge this series. Cuz it does so many things wrong I don't even know where to start. First of all there are only 2 characters are i actually liked. BOSS and curses chick. Both were hillarious whenever they showed up but the rest were pretty flat. I liked the main character's issue. She really wanted to be a pretty herione. But she has a rough voice. So she keeps getting casted as a male characters which i thought was a good dynamic, But the author found a way to make it boring. Honestly besides Comedy this entire ... series felt like wasted potential. the art was fantastic too. But the side characters kept getting sidelined and there romances never come into fruition. The acting part though there were some moments i enjoyed reading majority fell flat and i feel like the author didn't really know what she/he was doing. The author also spent way too much time on the 2nd male love interest who was obviously not going to win. Lots of sideplots were left open as well. I honestly don't know what the author was thinking.

4/10 Boring as fuck