Sugars

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When this manga first came out I was super into it. I thought the storytelling was really unique since it is an anthology series but stays connected through characters. All the characters that have a story has appeared in another chapter showing the connections to the other stories which really illustrates that all of the stories in Sugars occur in the same world in the same setting. The art is very nice too. I always look forward to reading Sugars and I never get tired of reading the same chapters over and over again since they're so cute. I really ... enjoy this series because it fleshes out a lot of the characters, showing the readers each characters' lives and struggles which is something I ALWAYS want anime/manga with hella side characters to do. I really recommend this manga if you're into cutesy school life romance or like reading slice of life.

This is a compilation of one-shots by Yamamori Mika, author of popular manga Hirunaka no Ryuusei.
The art style is not completely the same, but similar. Yamamori-sensei draws faces in a recognizable way that her fans love. What I really like is that every character is looking different - sometimes mangakas can't change anything than a hair colour. Here we have really unique-looking characters, but not only that - they are really different as a whole! Different age, hobbies, personality, gender, every one of them though is battling with love.

Stories are cute and warm, in a good harmony between funny and serious, leaving you with ... a fuzzy feeling. Some characters are 14 years old or below, having their first encounters with love. Some are 20, trying to figure out complicated feelings. You will laugh and smile nostalgically, or melt from cuteness. There are also stories that are more sad, bringing up break-ups and unrequited love, but eventually everything has a happy ending (or gives a feeling of having one in the future).
What is also really interesting, that the stories are linked. If we meet a friend of the protagonist, in the next one-shot we will be introduced to that friend's story from their POV. Characters that we already know often appear in a background of someone else's story, giving a reader subtle uptades on their lives. It's easier and only natural to empathize with characters thanks to that.

The only thing that bugged me, was that sometimes everything was happening too fast. It's hard to show a progress of a feeling in one chapter, I know, but some stories were obviously cliche and predictable, without really a reason behind sudden love. It's nothing big, though. It's shoujo, after all. They were still nice to read! Moreover, not every story is cliche, some are unexpectedly original, so don't worry if you don't like old chestnuts...

I will give it an 8 in overall, but I may change it to 9 after reading other chapters (for now, only 16 are translated). I don't think I would give it less, even if every new story was super cliche!

Some stories were good, others were not. While I started out liking the stories and characters because of how cute and fluffy they were, it didn't stay that way for long.

The author kept on introducing more and more and more and more and more characters throughout the manga to the point that I didn't even remember their names by the last chapter. Most of the storylines are also predictable and some characters were pretty one dimensional. It's sad because there ARE characters and couples that I liked but the author didn't give them enough time to be fleshed out because of how short and unimportant ... their "screen time" always was. Instead, they dragged on plotlines that often have predictable outcomes just to satisfy the audiences' demands. I came here from Daytime Shooting Star because I really liked that one. I wanna say I'm disappointed with this one but I think this came out first so it's understandable that the author is still a little rough in writing characters during this.

With that being said, as I mentioned before, the stories are very wholesome and lovely despite my complaints. The artstyle is beautiful and it fits the stories and characters perfectly. I also applaud the author for having the creativity she has to create all the concept, scenarios and plots to make each story different from one another because there are a LOT of them. And while I did mention that some stories were dragged on longer than others, I don't think it'll be a big deal for most people since all the couples in the manga are very pleasant and the development of their relationships are very interesting to read.

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I'd recommend this to anyone who just wants to read a collection of light romance stories that connects with one another. All in all, this was a pretty nice manga as I didn't want to read anything too serious at the time and was just looking for something sweet, which Sugars very much delivered.