May 20, 2017
Granted Kaicho wa maid sama was one of my very first shoujo manga/anime and thus I am slightly biased towards it But to this day after reading so many shoujos, Kaicho still remains one of the best.
GOOD POINTS
1. The Art is awesome
I dont know your defination of good art but Kaicho wa maid sama is one of mine. Even at the beginning of such a long manga when the art is usually bad compared to the ending, kaicho's art was still levels above other 5 chapter shoujo mangas. No cring worthy awkward postures and it kept gettting better.
Art is crucial to a visual entertainment such
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as mangas and even if you come for the story, the art and pacing of the panals are very important as those are what causes the most impact. Not to mention just the good art itself makes you reluctant to drop it.
2. Ayuzawa sempai is bae
Ayuzawa Misaki sempai is bae no matter what anyone says.
I'm a man of simple taste, give me a main character I like then I already like the story. Misaki's character is supposed to be a hard-working young girl not afraid to stand up for herself, and a man-hater feared by the males. Her strong personality and the martial strength she has to back her up (unlike the countless all talk no action female leads) really touched me. Best of all, she wasn't born strong but obtained the strength to implement justice through hard work (unlike countless female leads who let their gender determine their strength).
Misaki sempai isn't perfect, and that's what makes it good. She over estimates herself and later her man-hating is shown to be biased but through her interactions with the male lead and her surrounding people, she gradually improves her faults. THIS is character development in case some mangas weren't sure what the hell it was.
3. Then they brought Usui Sempai
Just Misaki would have been enough for kaicho to be a good manga, and when the author brought Usui, you knew it was going to be a great manga.
You wanna know what Usui Takumi is, he's the epitome of perfection; paired with the awesome art in the later chapters made him feature in every fan girls' wet dream. His mysteriously cool alpha male aura along with his superior specs and face contrasting with his indifferent casual personality to everyone except Misaki, made all fan girls go kyaa...including me.
BAD POINTS
The manga is longer than it should be, with room for shortening. A lot of large conversation dialogues make you feel dull at the beginning and personally even if the entire maid cafe cast were deducted, the manga's rating would not have suffered but improved. The romance progressed slowly but surely but sometimes large arcs would make you hungry for OTP scenes. The trope itself was somewhat cliques but it was nicely done.
These aspects made it loose a star in my dictionary but still weren't enough to prevent it from being one of the best.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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