Hakoiri Drops is a fluffy, comedic 4-koma. The premise sounds pretty average, but the way the manga is written makes it amazing.
Story - 8
The plot never fully seems like it's being motivated by dumb rom-com tropes.
The ending overall is wonderful and gives a good sense of closure.
Art - 7
Good. It's not trash. The moe designs are cute, the reaction faces are great. It's a 4-koma. What do you expect?
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Alternative TitlesJapanese: 箱入りドロップス InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 6
Chapters: 85
Status: Finished
Published: Mar 9, 2011 to Jun 9, 2017
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Tsurusaki, Yuu (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #27352 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #3919
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Your Feelings Categories May 11, 2020
I might be a bit biased in my review, as this was the first "manga only" manga that I've ever read, but I'll do my best to be fair.
Hakoiri Drops is a very wholesome, practically diabetes-inducing four koma, that maintains what's expected of such a format, while bringing out the good qualities of it to extremes. The comedy is light-hearted and mostly innocent, though there are several more mature jokes thrown in just to shake this up a bit. It does it's job as a comedy very well, forcing quite a few laughs out of me, so I laud it for that. What I found most ... Oct 6, 2021
Hakoiri Drops is one of those underrated mangas that everyone should read. It is about a girl, Shizuku Nishimori, who has been sheltered all her life, going to high school, with a boy, Kasugai Yoichi, who has basically been assigned to show her the outside world, with a bit of romance thrown in.
Art: 9/10 Well it's 4koma, so art is much harder to judge. However, I like their character designs very much, especially Shizuku, and brings out their personalities. Characters: 10/10 The interactions between the main 4 or great, as it shows them growing over 3 years in high school. The development of the romance is very ... May 6, 2022
So I was searching for a heartwarming SoL/Romance manga and I saw someone at r/anime recommend this manga (I owe you one whoever that was). As many before me has said, I feel that this is a highly underrated hidden gem.
Story: 8 I'd give the story higher but it's a damn episodic 4-koma so 8 is good enough. The story basically entails a group of friends going through the years of high school. There's little to no drama and the romance is slow, but it is enjoyable. Everyone got their own story and ambitions. Also the bromance, it's good. All in all, this manga is a ... Jun 11, 2022
Story: 7/10
The story is a somewhat generic high school romance. Not cliché nor is it too beholden to dumb rom-com tropes. Almost no contrived drama. The romance actually grows in a natural manner and grows throughout the manga. All the usual story beats for a high-school romance manga: shrine visit, fireworks, culture festival, beach, camping, school trip, etc. Art: 6/10 Decent but very simple. Cute when it intends to be (which is most of the time) but it can do others, like good reaction faces. Characters have good, distinct designs. 4koma so the art is kind of small. There are some coloured in, non-4koma chapters ... |