Intricately layered and folded with sharp edges that can cut if not carefully handled. These characters are carefully layered and even convoluted. Characters you thought you knew make surprising choices, or shocking things are revealed about them which changes your perspective from back to front and around again. While you may think you know a character, you'll see that they make choices, or act completely differently from how you perceived them. Every character is given depth, meaning, different sides and perspectives, making them very three dimensional and understandable. This manga really deconstructs all the stereotypical cliches and "boxes" that so many authors place their characters into. ★ Character (9) - You have the innocent girl, the bad boy, his good-guy pal who wants the innocent girl, and the sister of the dead girlfriend who wants the bad boy. The sketchiness and bad line art coupled with poor landscapes, and overall poor design make this one of the poorest artsyles I have ever come across in a manga. Their bodies and clothes look like rough, sketchy doodles and the backgrounds look very lazy or merely incomplete. The blank, pupil-less "frog eyes" that every character has are incredibly unnerving, creepy, and rather off-putting.
BOKURA GA ITA KISS SERIES
The art for this series (an award winning series at that) is extremely poor and badly done. ★ Art (3) - Unfortunately, this is where the good reviews go out the window.
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This dreamy, sad quality suits the entire story very well and only adds to the plot. The atmosphere is somewhat vague and dreamlike, coupled with a nostalgic sense, and a feeling of yearning for people, places and even the past. There is also a certain ambiance.A certain feeling throughout this whole story. Everything is taken seriously, broken down and scrutinized from all sides and different perspectives, each side with its own conflicting feelings and thoughts that adds to the realistic nature of the tale. None of the events are taken lightly, or just passed by as a chapter's event, or played up for the entertainment factor and the sake of the reader. What stops this story from being cliche and overly dramatic is the mature, realistic way events are shown and handled. A simple tale of what seems to be a first love during high school is completely shattered as dark, troubled pasts come to light revelations of secrets in families are revealed, abuse and abusive behavior are uncovered, cheating scandals abound and the death of one girlfriend takes its toll on several characters. School delinquent quickly evolves into a very painful and tragic story spanning ten or so years. ★ Story (9) - What starts off as a deceivingly simple and very cliche tale of a good, innocent girl falling love with the This manga is categorized as a Shoujo, yet the maturity of the tale, and the realistic way everything is approached and handled is far more like a Josei, and therefore better for a more mature audience, either in age, mentality or both.
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The story follows the interconnected lives of four people made tragic by circumstance and choice from their highschool days, and ten years hence. But still, her world is soon turned upside down when the only boy she ever liked unexpectedly comes into her life once again-except he goes by the name of Kou Mabuchi now, and it is not his name alone that has gone through a sea change.Two words that truly sum up the entirety of Bokura Ga Ita - We Were There.
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Determined to become a class favorite this time, she avoids all unwanted attention and, instead of acting cute and feminine, only stands out through her tomboyish behavior and disheveled look. Now in high school, Futaba is not your typical adolescent girl. She even succeeded at making plans to meet with the quiet and innocent boy at the summer festival, but a simple misunderstanding, and Tanaka's subsequent disappearance, left her walking the halls of her school friendless.
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Nevertheless, she was able to brush all that off, because the only opinion that truly mattered to her was that of Kou Tanaka, a classmate with whom she shared a shelter from rain once, followed by quite a few other precious and significant memories. Futaba Yoshioka used to be an attractive and popular middle-schooler-well liked by the opposite sex, but ostracized by the girls.