First of all, excuse my English, it's not my first nether my second language so it sucks.
Well, that's my very first review in MAL and out of all the manga I had ever read this one made me consider creating an account and wanna write a review because of the struggle that it made me go through, so let's start this.
Story 5/10
The story is about a nerd/shy/introverted girl that has been struggling with bullying for her whole middle school days, why? Because she was a nerd, which I found hella weird, like dude aren't smart kids quite popular? Even those who are not popular
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they are at least looked up to, have rivals, people who don't give a damn about them, maybe some haters who are jealous of them, but her bullies don't seem to give a heck about studies. I mean sure there's no logical reason to bully someone, but at least they should have given us a proper reason why this girl was bullied like crazy, do they force her to work for them? buy stuff for them? do their homework? or even help them to cheat in the exam? So the bullying thing might be just a way to make the girl look more innocent and pitiful so that we feel sorry for her. And why she doesn't have any friends from elementary school? So the bullying is not the reason why she doesn't have friends at all, then why?
Characters 5/10
I like the main female lead but she is kinda annoying to be honest, she is craving to have friends, she worships her classmates and looks extremely down on herself, even though she is nice, smart and respected by her teachers, like GOD she has everything to be a little more self confident and get noticed in a positive way instead of being looked at as she was some old fashioned, boring and pitiful girl, I understand that high-schoolers tend to be quite judgmental but not to the extreme and of course not like 90% of the school students.
I feel like I can't stop talking about her unreasonable situation in her classroom, but I am sorry, I can't, because it's so tiring and irritating, so Im gonna move to the male lead, that dude is hella handsome, popular and 99% of the school girls are head over heels for him, sounds like the popular/nerd love story cliché? well, it's the case, and imagine what? That poor little girl is blessed to have this cool, kind, charming guy falling for her for like no reason, well, it's not like there's no reason because the girl or Ishimori had made a great character development compared to her old self, but Kai did not have an idea who was her back then and yet he just came out of the blue and was like "hey Imma make all your dreams come true" like why he decided to support her in the first place? Out of sympathy? Well, that would be awful. A love from first sight? I don't think so, and what's next? She became quite known and admitted just because she was around him, but guess what? people around her were just too rude to accept her heartfully, no matter what she does she is still being judged, they even call her the "plain" girl because they think that she doesn't deserve that hottie to be by her side, which I don't get at all, like she is the cutest girl out there, if the author was going to make her play "the plain" she should have drawn her in way that shows it, because it hurts my pride to be honest, also a long skirt isn't enough to make a girl ugly or old fashioned, sometimes I am just like "honey, they are just so rude, it cannot be helped, just stop trying to get along with these brats already" for God sake, there's nothing wrong with being a loner, still so much better than clinging to people to feel accepted while you are fine and has good points, why don't you consider loving yourself instead? I believe that if she tried loving herself she'd have been loved without going through all the hardship.
even though the author tried hard to make it look like she is finally accepted, but God she is still not, those classmates who were fascinated in a particular moment because of one specific action of hers, they end up going back to teasing her and looking down on her ad it was something normal and happens everyday, in both mean and jokingly way, making fun of her appearance and character and actions, like I don't even know what's wrong with them, they are the most mean students I have ever seen in any other manga, they are just too unrealistically confident and arrogant like they were the most fun and classy. Sometimes I feel like that 90% characters are made awfully with a rude attitude just to make Ishimori looks like the good girl who gonna change all of them and teach them a lesson of kindness, seriously, to make the main lead a good person doesn't mean to make everyone else look so bad.
Art 9/10
There's nothing new since we are talking about a ribbon work, because they all look the same, but at least the art is hight quality, the expressions are in point, the characters are drawn in a unique way, each of them has their own style so we can tell easily who is who just in glance, I also like the fashion, especially the boys outfits.
Overall 6/10
Finally what I liked about this whole manga is the character development of Uka, she did well, even though existing in an inconvenient environment, she still has done her best, I really admired the fact that she overcame her fears, affronted her father and told him what she wanted to do, even though I thought that it would be better if she had been accepted in that nerds school, she could have made better friends there, but otherwise she wouldn't be able to be with the yellow head which would have been better because I dislike his "flashy" character .
Well, that's all what I could say for now, I am still waiting for updates, and I'm gonna give this manga a chance for the the art and takamine sake who I found the most interesting character out there but he barely appears which pisses me off, but I have that awkward feeling that he is gonna be a part of a love triangle.
May 20, 2019
Honey Lemon Soda
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First of all, excuse my English, it's not my first nether my second language so it sucks.
Well, that's my very first review in MAL and out of all the manga I had ever read this one made me consider creating an account and wanna write a review because of the struggle that it made me go through, so let's start this. Story 5/10 The story is about a nerd/shy/introverted girl that has been struggling with bullying for her whole middle school days, why? Because she was a nerd, which I found hella weird, like dude aren't smart kids quite popular? Even those who are not popular ... |
