nobile's manga / #confusing(45)

I'm pretty sure that this is some allegory for something, but I really could not figure out what it was. It looked sort of nice, the "teacher" character got my attention I would've liked to know more about 'im. But overall, I don't know... just: Kids don't run away from home?

Oh man... Words are not enough to describe how awesome this manga is... It's got it all, funny, sad, love, action, drama, adventure, tragedy, everything. I watched the show many years ago and even though I tried really hard to get everything related to it (including xxxHOLIC), there was a lot that didn't make sense, or I never quite understood. Now that I read the manga I've come to understand all the stuff I wasn't clear on; I feel like I can truly appreciate the story and all its underlying nuances. It also helps that I've immersed in more of the CLAMP universes :D

Not sure if this is ever gonna get finished, I found the whole thing just a bit confusing, also hard to feel attached to the characters.

Cute and somewhat funny story, I'm not quite sure in what was that they settled for there at the end, maybe because of the translation? Or maybe it's just the way the language and culture works?

The art was stunning, but I was REALLY confused by the story, not just in general but also the dialogues and everything else...

Maybe I'm too dense, I couldn't quite make out how it all worked out.

If only the translation was a bit more clear, or at least how stuff was worded... Specially at the beginning, it was a bit tricky to follow the dialogues :/

As expected of this mangaka, I loved the art. The story was hard to understand though, I can tell it probably is kind of cute or sweet, but the translation was so terrible that I really couldn't make sense of what people meant to say. What I could understand was: Rich boy and farmer girl meet at a party, their grandparents seem to be friends. The kids get along so well, that the boy gives the girl something very precious of his so that in the future they can meet again. 5 years later, girl finally goes to boy's school, just to find the boy be a completely different person than before. No matter what the girl does, boy is very mean to her, repeating that he just wants to forget about the past and her. He even throws into the river the precious object he had given her 5 years ago. Somehow girl manages to get to his heart or something, and he helps her find the precious object. Everyone seems to be happy as she rides the bike he stole while he's just sitting on the back doing nothing.

I can't make up my mind if I liked the art or not... it had all the things that are in mangas where I've liked the art, but I don't know if it was the perspective or what, but sometimes the heads would seem oddly "arranged". That aside, it was sort of interesting, there wasn't much of a story to tell, just two classmates who find they have a common interest and act in on it.