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Summary: A sweet, funny and romantic story
Review: "Ai Yori Aoshi" (in English, "Bluer than Blue") is shaping up to be one of the best romance mangas, up there with "Maison Ikkoku" and "Love Hina." Japanese comics tend to fall firmly into "boy's comics" and "girl's comics," and this story is intended to be for boys, but I think it crosses gender pretty easily. The story is quite sweet, but with some wacky humor thrown in for good measure, and a few curveball characters.Aside from the usual screwball antics, there is some real tenderness between the two main characters, Kaoru Hanabishi and Aoi Sakuraba, that sets this series apart from other romance-comics. Also, unlike most in the genre, the two characters are happily in love with each other and they both know it from the very beginning. This beginning volume sets the stage for the story, introducing the characters and such. When the full cast is assembled, the fun begins. The inside art is really nice, much better than the covers lead you to believe. The style is pretty usual, but it is very nicely done. A great comic, one that you really can't go wrong with. Pick up this first volume and find yourself hooked!
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Summary: A sweet, funny and romantic story
Review: "Ai Yori Aoshi" (in English, "Bluer than Blue") is shaping up to be one of the best romance mangas, up there with "Maison Ikkoku" and "Love Hina." Japanese comics tend to fall firmly into "boy's comics" and "girl's comics," and this story is intended to be for boys, but I think it crosses gender pretty easily. The story is quite sweet, but with some wacky humor thrown in for good measure, and a few curveball characters. Aside from the usual screwball antics, there is some real tenderness between the two main characters, Kaoru Hanabishi and Aoi Sakuraba, that sets this series apart from other romance-comics. Also, unlike most in the genre, the two characters are happily in love with each other and they both know it from the very beginning. This beginning volume sets the stage for the story, introducing the characters and such. When the full cast is assembled, the fun begins. The inside art is really nice, much better than the covers lead you to believe. The style is pretty usual, but it is very nicely done. A great comic, one that you really can't go wrong with. Pick up this first volume and find yourself hooked!
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Summary: Excellent read for fans of romance, manga, or romance manga!
Review: I won't recap the story or anything, but I picked up the manga in the store and found it to be a fantastic read. It's an extremely adorable and heart-warming love story, with plenty of plot and suspense and so forth. No action, or super-human magic/technology or anything like that, which makes it that much more sincere and close to home.
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Summary: Great Romance
Review: I would like to start out by saying that Im not a fan of romance manga. Even with that said, this is a very good story. Its warm and touching, and the characters have very real emotions. Even if you hate romance, give this a try.
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Summary: A wonderful romance Manga
Review: Its a romance manga where the main charicter make the book i have to say it is very good it kept me on the edge of me seat but it made oly four stars in my opinion because they kept the suspence running longer then i would like and its laking in one way or another but its still a great manga and a wonderful tale of devotion and love i recomend reaing this one if you love romance stories.
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Summary: NO ACTION, AND THAT'S A GOOD THING
Review: Kaoru Hanabishi has moved to the big city to live his own life away from the family that disowned him and is currently attending college. Yeah, he has freedom, but freedom is lonely. That's when he helps an 18 year old girl, Aoi Sakuraba, who is lost and in distress at the train station. She tells him all a sob story that when she was growing up she had fallen in love with a young boy friend and that she always felt it was her destiny to marry him. She hasn't seen him in years and all she has is an address. When Kaoru asks to see a picture of the guy he is shocked to learn that the person she was looking for is HIMSELF! The rest of the volume is about the budding relationship that starts up even though parts of Kaoru's past will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for them to marry. This manga was very well done. The art is glowing and the sexual tension, romance, and characterization are all masterfully balanced. Sometimes I believe this artform is at its best when it involves relationships and subtlety instead of confused kung fu fights where you can't even tell what's going on. There is a tenderness between these two characters that is so often missing between couples in the real world where romance is seen as a pathological disease. There is no struggle for dominance between Kaoru and Aoi. We could all probably learn a lot from their unconditional love.
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Summary: Behind each great anime is a great manga...
Review: Kaoru Hanabishi was a lonely college stundent, who had willingly left his father's family, even after they had adopted him. Now, into his life, came a pretty young girl. A girl named Aoi Sakuraba who had come to marry him. A girl he hadn't seen since leaving home.
The problem is, in order for her family to approve of this marriage, he would have to go back to the family he hates. Will he go back to his family? Will she leave her's? What will the families do?
The first volume has the first ten chapters and seem to be the foundation for the first four (of five) anime episodes of the First DVD. The manga is for age 16 and up, higher than the DVDS, because mangas can get away with just a TOUCH more in mature scenes and adult humor. I would suggest you only buy it if you are a REAL fan of the anime OR don't have the anime.
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Summary: Behind each great anime is a great manga...
Review: Kaoru Hanabishi was a lonely college stundent, who had willingly left his father's family, even after they had adopted him. Now, into his life, came a pretty young girl. A girl named Aoi Sakuraba who had come to marry him. A girl he hadn't seen since leaving home.
The problem is, in order for her family to approve of this marriage, he would have to go back to the family he hates. Will he go back to his family? Will she leave her's? What will the families do?
The first volume has the first ten chapters and seem to be the foundation for the first four (of five) anime episodes of the First DVD. The manga is for age 16 and up, higher than the DVDS, because mangas can get away with just a TOUCH more in mature scenes and adult humor. I would suggest you only buy it if you are a REAL fan of the anime OR don't have the anime.
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Summary: Very good book overall
Review: The basic story is, there is this guy, Kaoru Hanabishi. He has some troubles with his family and runs off to live by himself. Skip forward eighteen years, he lives in his own apartment and is a sophmore in college. Okay, one day he runs into this girl (Aoi Sakuraba) at the train station that is hopelessly lost, so he helps her out. her destination is on his way home anyway. she is there to find her childhood sweetheart who she has not seen for about eighteen years or so. She soon finds out that the man helping her is the man she has waited so long to meet. What follows is a funny, sexy, and entertaining story that keep you reading to the very last page. P.S. this was the first Manga I have ever read and it was a good one :).
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Summary: Very good book overall
Review: The basic story is, there is this guy, Kaoru Hanabishi. He has some troubles with his family and runs off to live by himself. Skip forward eighteen years, he lives in his own apartment and is a sophmore in college. Okay, one day he runs into this girl (Aoi Sakuraba) at the train station that is hopelessly lost, so he helps her out. her destination is on his way home anyway. she is there to find her childhood sweetheart who she has not seen for about eighteen years or so. She soon finds out that the man helping her is the man she has waited so long to meet. What follows is a funny, sexy, and entertaining story that keep you reading to the very last page. P.S. this was the first Manga I have ever read and it was a good one :).
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