Seishun Pop!

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This manga is really a great piece of work. The story started off by revealing to you the relationship between the protagonist and his favourite lead singer. However, don't be fooled by the initial plain introduction as you will soon be absorbed into the story as it progressed further down the later chapters.

It has a great mix of emotions and at times, you will really feel for the character, for better or for worse. Each of the characters were thoroughly introduced, thus giving you a sense of attachment to the characters. The artwork of the manga is also superb. Rarely ... do I come across artwork of this magnitude. It is easily on par with Sun Ken Rock (another highly recommended manga) and GTO (one of my all time favourites).

Overall the enjoyment was really really pleasant. If you have not started reading it, you should. It really leaves you craving for more but not to the extent of leaving you hanging. I cannot wait for the anime adaptation to come out.

I loved reading this manga, especially as a fan of J-pop/rock music. The chapter are based after songs from artists like Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Bump of Chicken, and various other artist. Plus, they have inserts from the song so if you choose to play the song with the insert it really conveys the tone and emotion to the reader. Shying away from spoilers, I thought some relationships in this manga kinda were weird and I know some may not be ok with it, but if you can look passed it you'll see how wonderful this manga really is.

In short Why you want to read this
- Fun concept

Why not
- It turns into the opposite of what the ealier chapters make out
- It was canceled and thus has a rushed ending - very wishy washy
- The later chapters become increasingly dark
- Character motivations are not constucted well
- speech bubbles do not have arrows, so can be confusing

The main thing to note with this series is it contatains two different manga, with two different genres. The first 15 or so chapters start out with a relativly easy going tone, traditional harem ecchi story telling with a single flash of breasts. The wrighting is not ... amazing but its a fun little jaunt. notable genres include; ecchi, romance, slice of life

Its at this point the writing switches gears and begins turns into a full fleged adult manga with serious tones, you will understand when this happens. No more tropes, it just keeps the convinent plot points (miss understanding, miss timings etc).

The story and plot are reasonable and intresting, however the manga does not adhear to the established personalities of the characters. As such the decisions and plot points come across as forced and out of character. Thus leaving you with the sensation that everything just dosen't feel quite right. When you couple this with the crazy tone swiches the manga becomes less than enjoyable.

The worst thing is the manga has you expect and nice happy experience only to take it away quite suddenly.