Moe Kare!!

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Moe Kare!! is a Shoujo, Romance, Comedy, Drama revolving around an interesting love triangle full of love, jealousy and heartache. The story is certainly typical for a shoujo manga however this doesn’t stop it from being a very enjoyable manga to read.

Of to an unconventional start; the story begins about an otaku girl (Hikaru Wakamiya) who’s always dreamt of getting a prince charming for a boyfriend but one day her first kiss is stolen some stranger. She later meets a guy (Takara Honda) that looks exactly like the one who stole her kiss but he doesn’t seem to be the same person. During the fast-paced ... beginning it is easy to wonder, what exactly going on here? Not to mention the number possibilities about both the guy’s identities, but thankfully it is all cleared up by the end of the 1st Volume and the messed up high school love triangle begins. From this point on the story becomes truly interesting, with plenty of light-hearted comedy and heavy drama for anyone to be satisfied with.

To make this a love triangle, three characters must be involved and here we have Hikaru, Takara and Arata. Hikaru starts of as nothing much but as she goes through, love and heartbreak she develops so much into a great heroine. Then you have your likable bi-shounen protagonist Takara and Arata; and with Takara being such a stiff unsociable guy, it is fun seeing his exact opposite, Arata and his playful ways. There are quite a few named supporting characters but they rarely play any major role in the story, except one that appears later on.

The artwork is pretty standard for a shoujo manga, with nothing amazing about it to set itself apart from the rest. The characters tend to frquently switch to the chibi look, to add some cutesy hilarity to the situation but sometimes it just fails. Although during normal situations, the characters and the scenery looks plain gorgeous.

Overall Moe Kare!! turned out be a shoujo manga that even a guy like me could enjoy from beginning to end. Sure there were some things I really didn’t like, such as Arata’s annoying attitude in the beginning and I was bothered by the few Yaoi moments. Also the way the characters lips looked in the chibi moments weren’t cute. Yet these are only minor issues that don’t necessary have a huge impact on the overall feel of the manga. With it also being at a manageable length, this is certainly a manga that any shoujo reader should check out.

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When any story starts off with an interesting and funny chapter, it kind of sets high expectations in the mind of a reader. When these expectations fail to meet it ends up as a sore disappointment. I may be a somewhat inexperienced manga reader, but now this made me sure of what I will possibly avoid in the future.

Moe Kare had the formula to be cutesy and funny. While it's jokes worked I think everything else was lazy and cliche. I think it's a standard shoujo story with the bad boy-good girl-good boy love triangle. While I happen to enjoy them if they are depicted ... well this one awfully reminded me of a love triangle I absolutely hated in the past.

Maybe it's just me but I wasn't really convinced of the feelings of the main girl. The ending was kind of thrown in for the readers. The development that took place was far from believable. The bad boy in this story later on became the kind of guy I never want to witness any character turning into. I felt bad for him and wanted to smack the one-dimensional girl. The worst kind of female character is the one who cries in every chapter.

I don't have anything against the art. It was cute but they looked too young for my taste. They frequently turned into chibi and what was funny till midway was annoying in the later half. It didn't have that much of a plot to begin with. What could have had been finished in 20 chapters was drug out to more than 30. Ah, well.

The story is immature but even immaturity can make sense. This one did not. I would only recommend it to hardcore shoujo lovers or teen girls. For me it held very mediocre enjoyment value.

i don't have too much to say about this manga, but i may be the only one who absolutely hates it. Most people will think that the story was really cute, but if you actually look at this manga from the guy pov, you will see how cruel the story is. the ending felt extremely empty, unless ur good at ignoring things like this, this story will make u suffer especially if ur a guy reading this. it will make u spit blood from all the irony and hypocrisy. the main character is pathetic and inconsiderate of others feelings, the plot is pitiful and the ... only thing that keeps u reading is the hope that things would get better, the hope that the main character will stop being retarded and may receive the bloodiest divine punishment possible for all her cruelty to the male lead, all in all the story is just cruel, even the cover picture for this manga depicts the cruelty, (notice how one guy is in front of the other, clearly depicting the unfairness and the whole crapload of bull in the story) the story spends more time on a character that is not the male lead. its just stupidly planned out leaving u feel angry and empty, also this story does an awesome job depicting how irresponsible girls can be, and how easily a clingy girl can just take things for granted. Truly ridiculous.