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Story: 7
Art: 8
Character: 6
Enjoyment: 7

The story was cute, it had some ups and downs but puppy makes it worthwhile. I liked that the storyline was built around the little puppy more than the high school drama, I felt it gave the story a bit of originality.

The school drama - all the drama really, I did not like.
I did like Yuzu's personality and the relationship she had with her friends but I'm not too sure I agree with their outlook on relationships - its ok to cheat with someone if your feelings are genuine and long distance relationships are miserable? What. The drama ... is tolerable but I don't think it benefited the story much.

The interactions between Soutarou, Yuzu, and Shiba are really cute, they make the storyline work.

In all honestly I’ve never had any interest in this film, no reason in particular. But I’ve always known it to get good marks. So when I came across a review that completely tore this movie to shreds, I wanted to see for myself what it was really about.

I do think you have to be at the right stage to have a full understanding of this film. After watching it I can see how it could easily be mistaken for something hollow and boring. It’s not the romantic story you’re expecting. The film is about distance and how as time progress we all grow apart, ... even from ourselves. But more than that I liked what this film depicts, we are all human. We all love, we all hurt, and we all grow. As different as we find ourselves to be, were all the same.

This film is life. You start out young with a few friends that you’ve grown up with and grown close to. Then someone moves away. It doesn’t have to be a physical separation you just fall out of sync with each other. You’ll meet new people, you’ll grow with them, grow apart from them, and you’ll each keep moving on. And when the path of your life has become more solid, the people who have made an imprint will hold a place in our memories.

The film follows Takaki’s life. It begins with an elementary school friend, Akari, who he fights to keep contact with as they move farther and farther way from each other. Eventually they become separated completely but every once in a while they think back to a time under the cherry blossom tree. Takaki, Akari, and every other character they come across are all normal people. They don’t have any special powers or hidden talents, they are just moving through life.And as the movie points out, our life is very long compared to the small fragments of time we spend with each other.

Though the film isn’t truly sad when I reached the end I had to hold back my tears. The best word I can use to describe the feeling your left with is heartbreak. As you see them pass by each other on the train tracks, it signifies how easily opportunities are missed. Such small things determine the courses our lives take.

The film is incredibly easy to relate to. In some way or another it depicts the course of human life, the basic course all our lives follow.So no matter how old you are or where you at in life try watching this film. And if it doesn’t hit home, watch it again in a few years.

Story: 9 [nothing new but i liked they way it was presented]
Art: 10
Sound: 10
Character: 10 [the emotions are shown really well]
Enjoyment: 10
Overall: 10 [one of the best animated films i've seen]

Incredibly predictable, incredibly typical, incredibly blah.

A cute story but theirs a million better versions copy and pasted.

Yuuka is in love with Suzuki, tries to make her move but ends up with Makita instead. Yuuka and Makita spend a few hours together and Yuuka’s feelings change.

Nothing about the plot is original and it includes the usual stereotypical shoujo leads.[added bonus, Yuuka ends up being an exceptionally fickle and shallow character]

Would I recommend it? Sure, its a three minute story. Why not

... Sotry: 4 [decent]
Art: 7 [good]
Character: 4 [decent]
Enjoyment: 5 [OK]
Overall: 5 [OK]

Shorts like this really aren’t my thing, I read it only because of the author. Bokura is the anime that got me started on manga and I haven’t stopped reading since.

All of the stories are cute and work well individually. Each one is about a high school romance that turns into a first love. The stories were just ok. Nothing amazing, not boring, just an ok read. Chapter two made me grind my teeth, Nariko isn’t her best but the ending was alright. Chapter four, Constellation in July, was the best story of the five hands down.

Her characters are a bit cookie cutter, the male/female ... leads all follow the same general pattern.

Overall it’s cute, short, entertaining. Would I recommend it? Sure

Story: 7 [some better than others but there each unique]
Art: 7 [good]
Character: 6 [OK]
Enjoyment: 6 [OK]
Overall: 6 [OK]

Cute idea and pretty original, I felt its downfall was that it stuck to closely to typical shoujo guidelines.The plot could have gone much further.

It’s about a boy who confesses to his best friend, Suzu. Right before he makes his confession he falls from a tree and hits his head, leaving him in a coma for four years. When he wakes up he meets Suzu again but she has a boyfriend now. Toogo wants to fight to win her back and make the confession he never got to say from four years ago.

Eh my problem was it wasn’t realistic in the least. The guy wakes ... up from a coma and goes ice skating a few days later. His muscles should have deteriorated after not being used for four year and he would have had to undergo therapy to get his health back up. But yeah I know this is shoujo. It’s too bad because the plot line was actually decent and could have been pulled off really well if extended into a more detailed manga.

The characters are displayed really well. You get a valid concept of the situations they are in and the problems they must face. The author is a good writer; she could have definitely surpassed typical shoujo standards with this manga and created something great. Her messages are solid too, no hidden meanings, she explains everything pretty well.

Story: 7 [good]
Art: 7 [good]
Character: 7 [could have easily been an 8]
Enjoyment: 6 [OK]
Overall: 6 [OK]

I’ll just start by saying my favorite character was the cat... ah hum.

I was actually un-attracted by the “forbidden love” thing. I’ll let teachers slide but relatives, even not related by blood, kind of makes me run the other way.

So when I first started reading this I got through two chapters and was totally confused as to what Jinya’s relation really was to Mao’s father. They say he’s Mao’s fathers brother originally but I’ll save you my grief and explain he’s her father’s step-brother [not related by blood at all] and the author takes it away a step further by saying he was adopted ... into her father’s family…

Jinya and Mao fall in love pretty much on the spot. They meet, find out there uncle and niece, the next day there boyfriend-girlfriend. Their relationship is cute but it felt like the author skipped the first part and started in the middle. A place where two people already understand how each other works and the only problems left for them to face are minuscule and easily solved with a bit of communication.

The characters are so-so. I can’t say I got a good grasp of Mao’s or Jinya’s individual personalities. You only really see how they interact when there together. Mao must be incredibly mature [sarcasm], she faces the typical problems [Am I good enough, does he really love me, jealously, ect.] and manages to handle them pretty well by herself. I think we all break down at some point and argue over these things, especially if this is the first time in a serious relationship. The author doesn’t say that either of them are inexperienced but just based on Mao’s age and innocence you’d assume she has little experience with relationships.

I’m like madly in love with this author so I had to bring my score down a few times to where I feel it actually should be >.> This is just not one of her better works and hopefully it was one of the earlier ones.

I'm on the fence about recommending this one, its not incredibly long and the romance is good. If i could just pick the romance up and put it into a different plot line it could be really good.

Story: 5 [eh...]
Art: 7 [good]
Character: 5 [So-so]
Enjoyment: 6 [OK]
Overall: 5 [OK]

Really cute. I’ve read a bit of the authors stuff before, she’s really good at presenting frustrating situations without making the story frustrating to read. [idk but I think that’s pretty hard to do!]

I think she got the length right too. Three chapters is perfect, if it were any more it would have felt to similar and become boring.

The story is about a happy-go-lucky girl named, Sayumi. She hates fights, lies, and a person named Kanna who coldheartedly rejected one of her friends. During P.E class however, she meets and makes friends with Kanna believing he is actually someone else. It’s a short ... story about the troubles and misunderstandings that take place in relationships, especially when their first starting out.

I really liked Sayumi’s character. She’s very defined but is coming to realize not everything is so black and white. Kanna is the typical male shoujo lead. You all know it, the handsome, cold, popular guy. His character seems like he’s genuinely a nice guy just a bit misunderstood.

Its only three chapters so it’s a short read, pretty light too. I’d recommend it

Story: 7 [good]
Art: 7 [good]
Character: 6 [OK]
Enjoyment: 7 [good]
Overall: 7 [good]

I, personally, have never read anything quite like this. It’s very creative on the author’s part.

The story begins with a flash of light. In the year 2038, downtown Tokyo experienced a large blast of light that plunged its civilization into complete chaos. Those under the range of the blast suffered complete memory loss apart from speech. Anyone carrying some form of identification was left with a name, but others like small children, were left with nothing. No memories of family, friends, home, nothing. The solution produced by the Japanese government was to create an underground facility for the victims while researching developments toward a ... cure on the surface. The identified victims could live with other affected family members underground or form a “family” within a group of affected people. Those who lived in the underground community became known as Kid’z and those unaffected by the blast on the surface were known as Adults.

Pretty awesome start right?!

So enters Noa. He lives with two small children which he considers to be his family in the underground facility. Not much is ever certain about his character, personality or background wise. As a Kid’z he is intelligent, quick witted, makes friends easily, and has a profound desire to rebel against authority. There is a whole nother side to his character that you know is there but never really get to see firsthand. You get a small snippet of what he was like before his memory loss but not enough that you can truly understand his characteristics. The characters involved in his life underground shape him to be very compassionate towards the other victims. He loves his brother and sister that he takes care of and enjoys the company of his friends from school. As a reader you don’t get to know much about his friends or even the children his lives with. You see how Noa interacts with them but you aren’t left with much incite on their own personality’s. Shunsuke is the leader among cops in the chase to catch the terrorist that has broken into the underground facility. Another character without much explanation. What drives his passion against Kid’z is his sister who was affected by the blast two years ago in some way. His role within the story that takes place underground is basically to function as Noa’s opposite and rival. [if you’ve ever read Death Note, L and Light relationship]

The transition between the how the government appears to function to the corrupted version is well played out. Lacking some details like the rest of the story and of course could have been done better but I liked the general concept.

The story was fast-pasted, not so much that I was annoyed with it, but enough so that you noticed how much better it could have been if there had been more detail. It is only three volumes and although it produces an interesting story, a lot of uncertainty is left.

Now I don’t really know anything on the subject but I was probably most intrigued about the theory of memory loss. I'll spare you details but I'll just say I'm a college student studying biology. I remember going over memory in Psychology and how it is stored in the brain. From what I understood, the location in the brain where our memories are stored isn’t known for sure and some people believe memory is stored in more than one place in the brain [on that note I was willing to over look that speech was not forgotten in Kid’z]. But how everyone’s memory was lost was never clearly explained. Since they are searching for a cure, I assumed the memories have not been completely erased from the brain but are being suppressed. Why/how? And then if memories could be restored, how do they get “put back” so to speak. It’s one of the main focuses of the story yet it’s left very vague.

I will give the author points for creating a whole underground civilization, explaining details like where they get their water, sun, air, ect.

If this was an anime it probably would have been pulled off better. Since its written, it relies more heavily on material and dialogue to create suspense/interest.

It’s a really good story that just fell short of what it could have been. Still most definitely worth the read though, I’d recommend it.

Story: 9 [story is awesome, how its told is where there are problems]
Art: 9 [great]
Character: 4 [lacks detail plus just not original]
Enjoyment: 8 [very good]
Overall: 8 [very good]

Fair warning: Know what your getting with this manga. Its not so much scary as it is filled with gore [literally it shows mutilated bodies/body parts]. The horror classification falls more with personalities of the characters.

I thought it was good but not amazing.
I don’t read much of this genre but I'm into horror/psychological movies and things like that.I read something similar to this beforehand too. If my reading order had been reversed I'm sure I would have found this more fascinating.

It’s about two students who have an interest in death and murder. They take interest in several cases of serial killings in the general area. ... The story portrays the different reactions and interactions of the two main characters with each incident. It consists of four separate cases, one of them being related to Yoru's past. It’s full of gore, psychological theory, and a few twist.

I guess you can say the plot gives you three perspectives. Itsuki: the perspective of someone with the capability of being a killer, witnessing the work of another killer. The killer[s]: the perspective and inner thoughts of a killer, some even as they execute their work. And Yoru: the perspective of a naive, curious girl with a troubled past.

The main character, Itsuki, isn’t anything new for me at least. I've seen a few adaptations of the apathetic, dangerous, murder capable individual. Itsuki is never explained, has left completely vague. Nothing towards his past is really ever reveled, he is just a character born completely apathetic to emotion. He is able to appear as if he fits in to society, while consciously knowing he is different. He’s twisted, manipulative in some ways, and just downright creepy. Yoru's character is pretty original and interesting. Her past is defiantly an original story. I thought that that case was probably the closest thing to realism in the manga as a whole. Her character is explained and actually somewhat relatable, I can accept it to some understanding. I don’t think the cut on her wrist was ever explained though, maybe that was left for you to interpret indicating a dark past. I just thought since it was such a focus in the first case and Itsuki’s fascination with Yoru, it would be explained or at least used somewhere else in the story. I have some issues with the realism [I will explain further] but for Yoru, how often this girl gets kidnapped or watched, really now?

Yoru’s character being naive or just choosing to disregard the true danger that lies in Itsuki seems like a debated topic. I chose to believe she is just naive to Itsuki’s true capably. In the first case about the severed hands, Yoru seems more in control. As time progresses you can see Itsuki is truly the one in control, he enjoys keeping her close and toying with the idea of one day killing her. Yoru seems to view him more as a companion than a possible threat.

Now the realism, I guess the way the story is put together bothers me. It’s just not realistic in the least...how many serial killers exist in general first off, let alone around the same place, within the time span of a few years. On top of that how likely is it that the same people keep encountering them? They were interested in the cases but it’s not like they went out into society, actively looking to solve them. They would have some sort of run-in with the murderer and things would just fall into place. I get the whole idea the author was trying to display but I think it could have been pretty awesome if made into something that could actually happen.

I think the plot is an interesting idea, I haven’t read anything quite like it. I would have liked it if there was more left for you to figure out. The murders involved in these cases were unique in their own but I felt like I was just reading about murders, no real thought or problem solving involved, the story kind of does it for you.

Its a good read, I'd recommended it. Would I read it again? No. I would read the novel if i thought it would be any better depicting or creating suspense but I think I'll pass on it

Story: 7 [good]
Art: 8 [very good, considered a 9 for being graphically daring]
Character: 9 [great]
Enjoyment: 7 [good]
Overall: 7 [good]

Really cute. I'm very impressed with this author for producing a successful sorry in only one volume. I've read dear! and kiss/hug, both i thought were pretty good but I'm totally going to stalk her work now.

This story is about four friends, three of which grew up together from childhood. They all get along great and have fun interacting with each other as friends. Of course feelings begin to develop and relationships begin to change. They go through life learning how to differentiate between feelings of love and friendship while learning to be honest with themselves.

The story's not new but its done in a ... way that's pretty entertaining.The author did a really nice job introducing and getting you to feel for the characters. Nothing feels rushed, the story produces genuinely.

The relationship between the girls is close yet distant at the same time. They trust and care about each other as good friends but they work as individuals. It's depicted nicely and i found it very relatable. As a group all the characters fit together well. They all have different relationships with each other and have unique understandings of the way a certain person feels.The character development was nice, very good considering it was done in five chapters.

I was staring to give up on the genre. I read parts of other manga on my list and wasn't feeling it, I'm glad i came across this one.
There are some good ones left after all.

Story: 7 [I mean ehh, its been done many times]
Art: 8 [very good]
Character: 8 [very good]
Enjoyment: 8 [very good]
Overall: 8 [very good]