narutolvr's manga / #Drama(85)

Looking for Happiness

Complete | maki youko | 2000 released
2015-09-13 19:48 marked

It was a bit...bland? Kind of shallow perhaps? I just couldn't get any emotion from this manga at all.

Saruyama!

Complete | akira shouko | 2005 released
2015-09-13 19:53 marked

I really liked this one! Cute story, no big issues with love triangles and whatnot, and the love interest was never a d-bag at any point. The trifecta!

Aishiteruze Baby

Complete | maki youko | 2002 released
2015-09-13 23:57 marked

Pretty good. Got to see a decent amount of change in the MC, though very little in the mother. But what can you do? A child loves its mother more than anything. I was a bit creeped out by the art, though, the eyes were huge!

Akkan Baby

Complete | miyauchi saya | 2001 released
2015-09-15 01:34 marked

It was a great story- I really like when smut mangas are actually realistic and don't just have an irrational female MC for the sake of making the male MC look better. The two MC's are clearly idiots and struggle to learn how to take care of themselves and a child with a baby on the way. They're still idiots in the end, though, but that's alright lol. I cried during this one!

Lovely Complex

Complete | nakahara aya | 2000 released
2015-09-16 05:31 marked

This is always a classic- so well done. I really loved Risa's character design from her stupid faces to her heartbroken moments, I felt myself becoming more and more enamored with her. Otani was pretty thick-headed and douchey the whole time (the scene towards the end where he let another girl sleep over wtf?!!) but I get the feeling he really came to like her in the end.

Crossroad

Complete | Mizuki Shioko | 2003 released

SPOILER!!!! Like everyone else in the comments, I really had preferred her with sensei. It's not that I'm against her relationship with NAtsu, I just don't think it was ever healthy. I never really saw the transition from childhood bond into adult love, so it was hard to tell where the MC's childish selfishness/sibling love ended and romance began, which made their relationship really unclear for me. I don't mind that they ended up together, I just wished she'd really and honestly tried to go out with sensei and tried to love him, instead of just using him as a replacement father. I'm also not too big on when stories end with a time skip that shows everything wrapping up super neatly- like all of a sudden everyone's married and happy. It's the pain they overcome to become happy that I find more worthwhile to read so it's sort of like a cop out to just give a picture perfect ending lol. But, all in all, it was a peaceful read- I think it expressed the impatience of a teenager really well.

Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Episode 1: Legend Of The Golden Witch

Complete | Ryukishi 07 | 2008 released

Cool. Gonna read the sequel

Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Episode 2: Turn Of The Golden Witch

Complete | ryukishi 07,suzuki jirou | 2008 released

Hmm..things got a bit confusing in the final chapter and the setup in the beginning was pretty boring, though I understand why the author did it. [Spoiler] I'm curious as to why Battler got back up though? Didn't he already admit defeat? And it's not as if he figured anything out, so does he just want to be tortured again?

Saesang Bring It On! Manhwa

Complete | hwang mi ri | 2008 released

Hwang Mi-ri has a gift for dragging out a mediocre story for volumes without you feeling bored at all. The whole time, no matter how ridiculous the story got (how unfortunate can one girl be?) I just wanted to know what would happen next. By time I realized it, I'd already read 15 volumes lol. It's how she got me with hot blooded woman. I'm addicted

The Moment When a Fox Becomes a Wolf

Complete | hwang mi-ri | 2006 released

Hmm...this one was alright. The story was interesting but got a bit convoluted about half way through. When they kept switching the couples around, and people were leaving and coming back as they wanted, I could barely grasp the story anymore. At a certain point, I just started skimming the chapters until things started to make sense again.