Jul 15, 2013
This was one of the worst things I've read in awhile. Aside from the overall boorishness of the manga, the ending to it just sums up my feelings.... But in the wrong way.
Story: 2
It stars Makoto, a high school student who has a crush on a girl, Katsura. A classmate, Saionji, finds out about his crush and decides to help him out. This evolves into Makoto and Katsura dating. So far, cliche but something to waste an afternoon on, so ok.
For the first 6 or so chapters it's just a typical "shy factor" revolving around our 2 lovebirds liking each other, but not knowing how
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to express it when they're together. Still cliche, and starting to actually get boring. This changes for the worst from boring to annoying when Saionji starts to fall in love with Makoto, and even kisses him. Makoto, being a jackass, doesn't stop being around Saionji or tell Katsura or even tell Saionji to suck the proverbial knob because they're not together. Instead, he keeps it a secret and continues to date Katsura. Ladies and gentlemen, our protagonist.
By chapter 10, Katsura finds out and is heartbroken by this. Her feeling of being betrayed is understandable, and we're suppose to feel bad for her and see the other two as jackasses. Well that feeling worked... A lot. When Katsura confronts the two, she says that everything is okay that she's glad to have them as friends. This cat-strangling bipolarity lasts about a page before she starts to call out Saionji for the bitch that she is. She then pulls out a knife and tries to kill her. (awesome)
She is saved, for Makoto steps in to save her. We're then greeted to a scene in the hospital a week later when Saionji comes to comfort her. Feeling bad , he says he's dumping her and wants to live with Katsura (who is not in jail for whatever reason). We're then greeted by wonderful phone message of Katsura's little sister crying and shocked by Katsura lying motionless on the floor bleeding to death. The chapter/series ends with Saionji giving exposition that she killed Katsura so that she could forever be with Makoto..... Words cannot describe how bad of an ending that is, let alone how much a waste of the manga is.
Art: 7
The art is alright. I'm not the type of person who really cares much for how good the art is (unless it looks like Steven Hawking drew it) so it passes
Characters:
-Makoto - Okay at first, but turns into an asshole who ruins the life of a girl who did nothing wrong except love him
-Katsura- The only likeable character unfortunately, considering how she has little personality except being shy, quiet, and uncontrollable in love. I honestly wanted Katsura to kill Saionji because she deserves some payback
-Saionji - The worst character. The preppy type who can't get out of anyone's' business, sets up 2 people only to "force" one to cheat on the other with her, and kills Katsura with nothing resembling karma. She is the definition of a bitch
Overall - It's horrid. The ending just takes everything for me. The love triangle was bad enough, but then we're greated by two characters who later turn psychotic for little reason, though Katsura has more of a reason (shy, no friends, just found out she was being cheated on). But what's even greater is how the ending lets the worst character not only live, but get the protagonist while the only likeable character dies.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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