narutolvr's manga / #shoujo(188)

This story gets a solid A- from me because it was quite well done, other than the fact that I wasn't too big on who he ended up with but it made sense in the context of the story (though it did seem a bit sudden). The flashback scenes were really sad, and did shed a few tears towards the end. I wish we had seen more character development from Selena- we got to see everyone else pretty much come to terms with their past, accept it, and move on, but he just kinda stayed the same throughout the entire series.

Poo. Sucks when a promising manga gets dropped like this.

It's really adorable/entertaining! The MC is talented and just so taciturn in the most hilarious ways- the author did a great job with witty banter between her and Narumi. Even though I've grown out of the target age group, I still really like the beginning of this manga, when we get to meet the characters and watch them interact. Not so fond of the last volume or two just because I find myself too old to sink into the whole serious battle story line, but I did like it the first time I read it so it's certainly not bad.

It was sort of a nice deviation from most shoujos I come across but it started to drag a lot and by chapter 20, became so predictable I just skipped to the final chapter. The reunion was pretty anticlimactic which I didn't mind but I was disappointed that the author didn't use the space to show a bit of character development, which I think is the purpose of a time skip in the first place otherwise, what's the point? If I were careless in reading, I wouldn't have known any time had passed at all; the characters were the exact same as the beginning of the manga. Maybe the author should have fast forwarded more than 2 years, or maybe she should have chosen a different way to end it. Either way, the final third of this manga really let down the expectations I had from the beginning.

Flow of this manga was a bit weird, made it difficult to fully follow the story sometimes, especially in chapters 3 and 4.

Strange but hilarious.

Funny and cute

Read this for the first time maybe 7 years ago and never got the chance to finish so I had to this time...kinda wish I hadn't- I should have left this series as a nice memory in my head. Now that I'm older and have read it all the way through, I can say I really didn't like it. It's not as if I hated it, it was just really bland. I was soooooo bored reading this it was ridiculous! The writing was lackluster and a little bit cheesy, the characters were dull and static with the exception of the male lead (such is the way shoujo goes I suppose). I thought the plot was extremely inconsistent like when the MC claims she found out about her brother on her mother's deathbed but a few chapters later says she would only wear her brother's old clothes when she was young OR the fact that she listed her birthplace as NY but the first chapter shows her mother dying in England and not one mention is ever made as to how/why they moved or even that they did move...there were just way too many holes left unexplained. Even though the characters' eyes bordered on way too big, the art wasn't bad at all. Ending was terrible; if I went all the way to Japan just to find my brother, best believe I'd damn sure ask any guy I suspected of being him! All in all, it was a waste of (my) time but I can imagine someone much younger would like it. I wish I could get back the 40 minutes I wasted reading this though...

Ended already, huh? It wasn't bad but the later chapters just couldn't hold up to the expectations the first 5 or so chapters set for me. Overall, the ending was just way too rushed. I mean, I'm glad they came clean and all but trying to turn the chairman into a "good" guy in 2 pages just didn't work. Doesn't matter if you want your kids recognized; threatening your son with his sister's life and breaking up his relationship with his girlfriend for literally no reason is just not a good look. So, needless to say, the end did disappoint me a bit.

It was sweet but I wish the author had made the emotions deeper. As it was, I didn't really feel anything until the end of the 3rd chapter when he died and, even then, I was only a little bit sad because it didn't feel like the author built the relationship between them while struggling against his illness. I'd recommend Rec- the day I cried as a similar story with more emotional depth- that one had me bawling like a baby lol