etien's manga / #Turned Cliche(41)

I picked this up after watching the anime which was FREAKING AWESOME (I don't give a damn about people who hate on it, those better stick to cliche shounen/shoujo shit). The manga despite the cute art that ruined a bit of dark atmosphere of the story (captured perfectly in the anime btw), still kept me on the edge of my seat... until the second arc with that whole stupid drama in the new school. I fucking hate the second arc and I didn't give a damn about Kasuga or whoever he pairs up with but I HATED what author did to Nakamura. She was the main character of the manga for me and it was so frustrating to follow the second tier Kasuga for whole second arc only to find Nakamura in the last episodes talking like the shitheads she hated. God I was damn pissed at manga! Still I give it 3/5 for the fist arc which was dope. I have a feeling Oshimi Shouzo always messes up the ending of his niche stories because of magazine sales...or maybe he is just a shithead himself :( P.S. I watched the live-action movie and was reminded how disappointing the beach scene and Kasuga's shallow ordinary personality was so yeah, I downgraded my rating from 4 to 3 *sigh*

A refreshing portrayal of tomboy FL who is both funny and growing. It turns into cliche at some parts (falling for prince charming and yade yada) but I liked that in the end she got to be herself and not a girly shoujo to win his love over.