the manga is too focused on being a romance to even consider developing the themes which are supposed to make it interesting aka alternative culture, bands, music. Instead we have a boring ass girl who makes boring ass graphic designs who magically wins over the hearts of badly written bad boys just because she's earnest. It's not like I don't find this manga cute, but I wonder if the shoujo authors are aware that their storylines are often poor. I think it might be to due to publishers and editors more than authors themselves...
the manga is too focused on being a romance to even consider developing the themes which are supposed to make it interesting aka alternative culture, bands, music. Instead we have a boring ass girl who makes boring ass graphic designs who magically wins over the hearts of badly written bad boys just because she's earnest. It's not like I don't find this manga cute, but I wonder if the shoujo authors are aware that their storylines are often poor. I think it might be to due to publishers and editors more than authors themselves...