Yuuyake Rocket Pencil
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Wrote a review on this, here it is:
https://terrenceswiff.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/yuuyake-rocket-pencil/
While I liked it, there are a few things about it that I'm VERY critical of
I'm not explicit in the review though. I try to stay spoiler free. For the most part, good manga, I probably got harsh on it cause I was really digging it and thus the problems hurt more.
https://terrenceswiff.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/yuuyake-rocket-pencil/
While I liked it, there are a few things about it that I'm VERY critical of
like how the college girl is inexplicably interested in the mangaka (just all of a sudden she really loves him, while she'd just been friendly before it's just really weird), and then they break up, or how I think Oomura was interested in Satomi's dad but it went nowhere, or how the drama behind the parents' separation was dumb, especially since they get back together in the end and obviously loved each other.
I'm not explicit in the review though. I try to stay spoiler free. For the most part, good manga, I probably got harsh on it cause I was really digging it and thus the problems hurt more.
Regarding the college girl, remember the manga really only focuses on Satomi. There's a lot that goes on when she's not around. We don't really get much of a window into the private lives of the college girl or the mangaka. They're neighbors, they have a lot of opportunies to interact outside of the stationery shop.
The parent drama is like this as well. We don't really see the reasons why they split other than a flashback or two of them arguing with each other. It's heavily implied that it's because of his laziness and apathy, but because the manga focuses on Satomi, we don't really see what's going on there.
Oomura and Satomi's dad don't show any romantic development. I suspect that expectation comes from the ever-so-tiresome tsundere trope you see in other manga. In any case, Oomura's 19 and Satomi's dad is likely in his thirties and still married, so it would be odd for Oomura to chase after Satomi's dad in the first place.
The parent drama is like this as well. We don't really see the reasons why they split other than a flashback or two of them arguing with each other. It's heavily implied that it's because of his laziness and apathy, but because the manga focuses on Satomi, we don't really see what's going on there.
Oomura and Satomi's dad don't show any romantic development. I suspect that expectation comes from the ever-so-tiresome tsundere trope you see in other manga. In any case, Oomura's 19 and Satomi's dad is likely in his thirties and still married, so it would be odd for Oomura to chase after Satomi's dad in the first place.
I really enjoyed the manga too. Other than the "make 2 million in a month or you have to close" challenge, it was refreshing free of a lot of the typical manga tropes.
