Mune ga Naru no wa Kimi no Sei
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Basic shitty shoujo romance -
hot guy vs fake hot guy - x not x past girlfriend with traumatic relationship past etc retardedness
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Padded misunderstanding in 22 chapters. It's a serviceable 7 for me because of the decent art, but then again, I've already developed a strong tolerance for annoying shoujo cliches. Read if you're bored. Otherwise, I think Io Sakisaka's Strobe Edge is a better execution of what this manga was aiming for.
A very average high school romance drama. Having read the mangaka’s later works, it’s easy to tell this one was made both in the 2010s and very early on in her craft.
Popular romance tropes of the time are present here, but are given neither a refreshing spin nor an especially moving execution. That being said, I think it does manage to avoid having the main characters themselves feel completely built on a skeleton of clichés (can’t say the same of the supporting cast tho). So what the character-writing lacks in sophistication and depth, it does at least partially make up for with its care—by which I mean the art is cute and especially effective at conveying moments of shyness, budding joy and affection between the main leads.
Given that the story leans on classic tropes of the genre, there is miscommunication drama throughout—a trope I am as neutral on I would be on most other tropes—but it admittedly did start to feel contrived towards the end. Not necessarily the miscommunication itself, since it made sense how it happened, but rather how it was handled by the characters. It had an equally disappointing and hasty resolution. Although I appreciate that scanlators put time and effort into this, I don’t think the story was helped by the subpar translations, but I’m annoyingly particular about language so it won’t be a big deal for most folks.
This is starting to become an unnecessarily long essay for a very ordinary manga, so I’ll end it with this: this one is overall basic and decently passes the time, so while I have seen many similar stories better than this, I have also seen many similar stories that are worse.
Popular romance tropes of the time are present here, but are given neither a refreshing spin nor an especially moving execution. That being said, I think it does manage to avoid having the main characters themselves feel completely built on a skeleton of clichés (can’t say the same of the supporting cast tho). So what the character-writing lacks in sophistication and depth, it does at least partially make up for with its care—by which I mean the art is cute and especially effective at conveying moments of shyness, budding joy and affection between the main leads.
Given that the story leans on classic tropes of the genre, there is miscommunication drama throughout—a trope I am as neutral on I would be on most other tropes—but it admittedly did start to feel contrived towards the end. Not necessarily the miscommunication itself, since it made sense how it happened, but rather how it was handled by the characters. It had an equally disappointing and hasty resolution. Although I appreciate that scanlators put time and effort into this, I don’t think the story was helped by the subpar translations, but I’m annoyingly particular about language so it won’t be a big deal for most folks.
This is starting to become an unnecessarily long essay for a very ordinary manga, so I’ll end it with this: this one is overall basic and decently passes the time, so while I have seen many similar stories better than this, I have also seen many similar stories that are worse.
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