narutolvr's manga / #Drama(85)

Started off kind of promising, with the heroine wanting to get revenge for her past, though she was an absolute idiot in the way she went about it (popular boyfriend + zero guy experience = obviously falling in love). But then the story quickly deteriorated into a sloppy, jumbled mess. The worst part is, the author goaded me into anticipating a potential hookup with the professor (I'm such a sucker for mature, intelligent guys!) only to drop that plot point as soon as I got excited. Boo! And don't even get me started on the stalker girl and her creepy sis-con brother with undue resentment towards Takaya. Ugh and that cheesy line about not turning them in because they also wanted to "protect their loved ones" was ridiculous. Not only did the girl literally say she wanted to see Takaya hurt, the guy who actually hit Yurina over the head was some random dude! Who the hell was he protecting?!! All in all, an average read but with enough wasted potential to disappoint me.

I'm not too sure how I feel about this manga, tbh. Story wise, I'd give it a 3 or so? But I really love this mangaka's art; her male characters are so sexy somehow >.

Tags say it all: girl who was teased in middle school goes out of her way to be beautiful in high school and falls for the first asshole she meets. She then spends the rest of the manga chasing after him, shrugging off him cheating on her, disrespecting her, and generally treating her like crap. And the one moment she actually stands up for herself, tells him that he's not worth it, and you start to feel there's hope for her after all...nope. It's gone. The story immediately goes back to him doing whatever he wants and her chasing after him like a sick puppy. What a great message for girls: if he's rich and handsome, it doesn't matter how awful he is; one day you'll change him! Next time, I hope the author can write about a girl who not only improves her appearance, but her sense of pride and self-worth as well.

Absolutely fan-fucking-tastic! This manga makes me break down in tears whenever I read it! How can this manage to make a work so heartwearming, pulse-racing, gut wrenching, and side splitting all at once?! She's the worst- clearly trying to kill us with her talent! >.

Ugh such a tear jerker! Glad the two ended up together in the end, though.

This mangaka always leaves me confused; I never know how to feel about her works. I guess it speaks to her talents as an author, though. The reason I don't know whether to like or hate her works is probably because she makes her characters so perfectly flawed. No one is good or bad, just a volatile mix of desires and contradiction; hence why I never feel that her stories have a "happy end". It's eerily realistic and really shows her talent!

It was a bit cliche but I still liked it.

Ugh! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧

Really well done manga, even with the sad ending. The pacing was absolutely fantastic- very hard to come by in these types of series. More importantly, I love how the mangaka showed how tiny bad actions by a good person can create psychopaths, especially as children. At the end of the manga, no one was completely good or bad; even Izaku, as much as I wanted him to lose, I pitied him and wished he could survive and be taken in by Akiba and Kiyo who reformed him through love. So you can imagine the actual end made me a bit depressed lol!