About the Mangaka
Abeno Chako is a member of the doujin group Kappa Kurieito. And has worked in both the manga and visual novel field. Some of her more notable works are Mai-Otome Zwei, Sola and White Album.
About the Manga
Sadly, this volume has done little to improve my thoughts on it, despite another good cover.
The first colour panel is another chibi page, and if I’m honest I didn’t mind it to much. I still don’t like the eyes on them, but it’s not to bad.
Once again we get another colour two page spread of fanservice, that really feels out of place, especially since it’s out of character for the two characters. That said I do feel the colours are nice, vivid and bright. Though the chapter itself feels like nothing more than a pointless attempt to get boobs, ass and panties in the readers face as much as possible.
The art sadly hasn’t improved since the last volume. Once again it looks like Chaco put all her effort into the colour pages and then gave up on the rest
That’s not to say it’s all bad art, because it isn’t. In fact there are several rather good drawings, though there are few and far between and only highlight how bad the rest of the art is.
Sadly the story is just as bad as well, jerky progression and at times it doesn’t really make much sense. The way the story progresses is just fast with no real sense of time slip, something that is really bad. When you do something like that you really need to give the readers hints so they understand what’s going on better.
The ending was a bit of a let down as well, and while the outcome was expected, it was handled badly. I mean the lead has spent the entirety of two volumes fixated on a single girl, then in the space of a few panels he suddenly decides she isn’t the one and swaps.
The other thing I noticed was the page count was a bit skimpy, it’s more the size of a 4koma than a manga. Though admittedly I can’t see any extra pages making that much of a difference.
If the series had been a normal manga page count, and had an extra volume or two, I really think this could have become an interesting series.
Yen Press did their job as well as usual, and while I found the flow of the translation a bit weird at times, I’m inclined to feel that’s the original texts fault. I’m not keen on some of the fonts used, but overall they’re easy to read, and there’s no guttering worth mentioning.
Sadly though this is a series that will never leave my Junk Pile, and can’t recommend it.
Where to Buy
May 17, 2010 @ 04:22.
This is pretty much how I felt about this series. I like it well enough that I collected the last volume, but I know I’ve read better. I think that if Yen Press had combined the two volumes into one bigger volume and charged “only” about $11-14 for it, I probably would have felt better about the series. It’s good, but I didn’t really feel like it was $22 (the price for both books) good.