Honey Hunt

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When I first finished this manga, I rated it a 6 out of anger towards the trash and unsatisfying ending it gave me. Now that I've had some time to think about it I rate it a 7 since honestly the story itself and the characters are pretty interesting and well developed. As I read it on an online manga website, I was able to see the views of other readers and how they believed the MC is stupid and annoying. Personally I just believed she acted as an insecure teenager engulfed in her love life. She quickly joined the acting world in order to ... beat her mom who had emotionally abused her as a child. She actually worked very hard as a teen and was able to accomplish her goals through hard work and help from her peers. Suddenly she stowed away from her goals as her love life began to improve, which is okay but the part that I hated was the fact that it just ended then and there. The writer was given an opportunity to create character development for the MC's maturity, mind set, career, etc. but instead she just prioritized her boyfriend. So the reason I give it a 7 now is because I realized that's reality. Many people get lost and caught up in love so they end up abandoning the things they should prioritize in life. They also end up ignoring all the red flags in their significant other. So basically this manga just shows the reality of an insecure teen in love.

So far I've only read up to ch 16 and honestly, it's annoying. It's the typical shoujo of 3 hot bishies going after the stupid heroine that only thinks "what should I do?".
Some people say that Yura acts that way because she's in her teens and has no self-confidence, so of course she would be confused..Well, I've never ever met a teenager like that. They might do or say stupid things, I agree with that, but there's a limit to how much of an idiot you can be.
As for the story and art..Story is waaay far from being original, while art is ok..not my favorite ... art though, but still somewhat enjoyable.
All this being said, I still won't drop the manga..I'll wait until the end of volume 4 in hopes that it will get better somehow..I might be editing this review once I get there to give a better opinion on the series.

Honey Hunt is a typical shoujo manga about an indecisive girl being sought after by a few guys but thing is, I don't mind these types of manga usually. I actually like the clicheness of many such manga and particularly enjoy them when I'm in the mood for something sweet and cute but this is not the case for Honey Hunt.

I'm going to talk about the features of this manga from the best to the worst.

Art: 6/10
The art in this manga is pretty good, it's not the best out there but it's not so bad that you can't take the characters seriously. It's a simple ... art style with not many variations in hairstyle for the main characters but this isn't a big deal on it's own. It lends a sense simplicity to the manga which may not necessarily be a good thing depending on your point of view.

Story: 3/10
As I said before, I tend to like cliche shoujo manga, but that's only when it's done right. In the case of Honey Hunt, it is not done right. The story is extremely poor quality as not only is it cliche (this I can handle) but also insanely stupid in the characters' choices.

SLIGHT SPOILER
The female lead makes the worst decisions between her career and love life and yet still everything turns out perfectly well with no after-effects whatsoever. The "sad background" that is commonly seen in the lead characters is also seen here with the female lead, however it seems to have no relevance to the story as any time it is mentioned, it is brushed over and not expanded on despite most events in the manga being a direct cause of this "sad past".
SPOILER END

Character: 2/10
I can not emphasise enough how bad the characters are. Their personalities aren't anything that bad on their own and if they were side characters (like the guys pining after the female lead) but there is no excuse for the female lead to have such a spineless character. Normally in romance shoujo manga the female lead is quiet or shy or introverted (I don't mind this) and you can see this here as well. However these negative characteristics are usually balanced out in the character with positive characteristics like good work ethics, intelligence, responsibility or gratefulness at least but such characteristics are not seen at all in the female lead.

The Female Lead: SLIGHT SPOILER
This might be slightly biased (of course it is it's a review in my point of view) but I hate this character. I understood her for the first few chapters where she was kind of bullied, or oppressed you could say, and was very shy and introverted. I'm completely fine with that part by character development isn a manga is what I expect and did NOT find here. She not only shows that she doesn't have a very good work ethic (by choosing to frolic with a guy she barely knows over practicing her lines to make a good impression) but also that she is stupid (because she starts to fall in love with a guy that originally only liked her for her father and still values her father more than her) and unreasonable (rushing into a relationship and not trusting or even bothering to listen to the words of anyone that truly cares about her career or her) ad much more.

I seriously hate her.

The Male Leads: SLIGHT SPOILER
The male that the female lead is "in love with" (Male 1) is a huge asshole, and not the kind that you see in manga like Maid Sama or Special A. This guy is like Sho from Skip Beat except before he got famous for the fact that he wants the Female lead to completely belong to him, even leave her career for him, and wants to use her for his career despite only originally wanting her for her father's reputation. He doesn't take into account her career or feelings before acting but only smoothes things over with her after the damage is done. Of course with the horrible plot of the story there is no damage done (unrealistic). The other male lead is a little spineless and slightly twisted in their own way where Male 2 wants her to rise in her career and is willing to hurt her emotionally to do it. Male 3 is probably the only character that isn't as weird or undeveloped though the development isn't very smooth.

Overall:
The art is average, pretty good even but is the only positive aspect of the manga.
The story is underdeveloped, cliche and unrealistic.
The characters are shallow and don't have much depth though it's clear to see that the greater tried to make them have depth. However another way of viewing this would be that they do have depth but it is in a negative direction.

However, in the end this is all my opinion, I encourage you to try the manga before dropping it.