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May 22, 2016
A poorly done work from start to finish, the plot and execution was all over the place, like the mangaka was making it up as she went.
The characters are all as flat as cardboard, and have the logic of such. The logic overall of both the characters and the plot is ...weird. It's unnatural and forced, and stitched together in such a way it's almost random. Plot points and villains pop up out of nowhere, and side characters that have been so little indication or introduction they haven't been given names are pulled into the main plot as villains all along. Actually most of
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the characters except for a main few are literally just there as vague faces.
The main character, Sakura drove me crazy. She's as naive as a child, literally acting like one, and she doesn't think. At all. She just does what she's told and accepts everything she's told. She doesn't think about why things or people are they way they are, or have any awareness regarding their motives or feelings. Till the end she was a naive, and non-thinking doormat. Considering her invaluable position, she could have used that to have her own authority, and not get pushed around as a puppet of everyone else, because that's what she's literally was the entire manga.
The romance is also creepy. Yoiyami is a crybaby, but he literally held her as a baby. He's the one that handed her to her family to be raised. He heard about her as she grew up, and even with her being as naive as a child, he still fell for her.
There was also some morally disconcerting stuff. At one point in the plot, Yoiyami's little brother that wants to be king tries to rape her, but that's immediately forgiven and treated as normal, and he even gets redeemed in the end as a respectable person.
The school also has a cooking/cleaning/sewing/beauty competition for the girls, where the boys rate their bodies and vote on a notepad how good they like their cooking. And the reward for winning the competition was a date with the three dragon brother 'princes', which while even being normal students were put on a pedestal and shown favoritism from both the students and the school for some reason.
At least the art was decent.
Overall, it was poorly done, and just bizarre.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Dec 3, 2015
*Contains spoilers*
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale is well, very sugary. It is in all respects a simple shoujo fairy tale, but unlike many, not one outside the realm of realism or avoidant of violence.
A naive but determined girl named Ann is trying to deal with her mother's very recent passing. She aspires to be a skilled sugar-sculpture craftswoman like her mother, and now on her own in the world, sets out to reach a yearly festival so she can enter a completion. The road there is very dangerous, so she reluctantly, and against the humanitarian morals she has been taught, purchases a warrior fairy named Shall
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Fen Shall as a slave to be her bodyguard.
Hence the conflict. It focuses mainly on Ann trying to make her dream come true along with her trying to understand fairies and their treatment in society, along with the fairy she had purchased.
Over time they build a subtle and reluctant friendship as they try to deal with their own emotional conflicts. One with Ann seeking companionship and trying to understand Shall, and Shall slowly opening up to humans(although not forgiving them) after all he's been through, and is still subjected to.
I felt the story should have delved deeper into the fairies struggles, (but that's a little much to ask of ten chapters) which leads to my problem with the plot twist. I cannot say I was impressed with it, nor that I didn't see it coming. The story didn't really need a villain beyond examining the general subjugation and societal roles of the fairies.
The ending wrapped up all of Ann's conflicts nicely, and she found her own self as an artist through her love of the fairies, but also felt kind of unfinished. Although, it was adapted from a novel, so it's probably not then whole story. (I'd like to see her someday become an abolitionist for fairies's rights.) xD
The art is very clean and clear, the designs pretty.
Well, overall I've rated it 'good' at a 7. It was a sweet and enjoyable read.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Oct 9, 2014
The protagonist. Oh the protagonist. Erika, can she recognize a hopeless jerk when she sees one? Can she recognize when a person cannot return love and is only going to hurt her? Especially a person as cold as him with sadistic inclinations?
Nope. Or maybe she does, but she relentlessly stays with him anyway. Even when she really does know better.
Basically the whole manga up until chapter 13, which is the point I've stopped reading at, is just him treating her like dirt, and a dog(literally) and her continuing to run back to him, putting up with all his abuse, holding onto a hope that he
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will love her back some day.
And throughout the manga the side characters are just encouraging this relationship. Her friend San repeatedly telling her she's a masochist, Kyouya's friend trying so hard to get them together, the potential good boyfriend with a passive personality giving his blessing, and they all know how he treats her!
Good grapes this manga is messed up. It's that same mentality as that darned 50 shades trilogy. 'Oh, if I'm kind enough, If I'm patient enough, if I'm submissive enough, he'll love me!'
Love doesn't work that way, and neither does that type of relationship. For one thing, if Kyouya is so interested in the D/s lifestyle and treating his partner like a dog, he should find an informed and consenting partner that is actually into that stuff! Erika is only going along with it in her desperation to be loved.
and when they finally got back together, the manga wasn't convincing at all that he actually liked her back. Considering that he puts a charming face on around everyone else, is manipulative, and shows his true colors towards her, he honestly feels like a sociopath, but Oh, this is a shoujo manga! After everything hes done to her, he is surely going to change in the end! Right? Because people never break up for long in shoujo manga. They never get their senses together and move onto another, healthier life. They just stay, and keep working at it, like this girl here, until the guy magically turns around by the power of faith, hope, and pixie dust, and sometimes he doesn't even do that.
Don't read this manga, unless you want source material on how to write an abusive relationship. It certainly isn't a good for anything else.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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