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Summary: Kare Kano = Typical teen problems presented in manga
Review: Kare Kano isnt a bad manga, it is rushed but thats just as any other teen life, yes it doesnt seemed to happen much between arima and yukino before they were having sex, but thats just as many teen lives, and indeed things might be a little bit exagerated but at 15 everything seems so big and important even if it doesnt really matters at all, this manga really touches the human hearth, only for that it deserves 5 stars.
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Summary: Nice enough, I guess
Review: Kare Kano... Its a sweet manga, but not amazing or anything. While its definitely good, there were parts that were just BORING.Buy it if you must, but I suggest something like "Boys over Flowers" or "MARS" instead if you want a great shoujo manga
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Summary: A GREAT MANGA!
Review: Like everyone else has said, this manga is GREAT, hands down. It's popular in Japan, the characters are real ( MORE REAL THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE! ~ it'd be even more real, if one of them farts next! ), and the author is funny! Yukino (Miyazawa) and Soichiro (Armia) are very likeable characters, and the side story, "Tora and Chamaelon" is cute and nice! Now, what are you waiting for ? Go out and buy this manga! You won't regret it! You may even decide to buy the entire manga series!! I know I have!
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Summary: Sorry, didn't like it.
Review: Many people talked so much about this book. All good. I don't mean that it wasn't, but it didn't live up to all the hype. The artwork was wonderful, no doubt. You have to have something to draw you in beside artwork, and Kare Kano didn't do it for me. It wasn't was wonderful as everyone says. Kare Kano isn't one of my favorites. The story was not very appealing. The characters left no lasting impression on me. They were bland. Nothing note worthy. They are suppose to be perfect and than we are suppose to be so surpise when they aren't. I wasn't connected or enaged in the story. Last chapter and story was the only one that intrigued me. I haven't seen the anime and don't plan to after reading the manga.
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Summary: She was perfect...
Review: She was the number one student in her class. She was the best at everything and always willing to help. She was pretty and smart. And a total fake. She did it for the grades and for the praise.
Then he came. He was just as smart, handsome and well liked. And he seemed to do it without a problem, as if he wasn't even trying.
Here are the first three chapters of the manga kare kano, also known as his and her circumstances. Serious, funny, painful and so real it really seems to touch our memories of what school was REALLY like.
This volume also holds a stand-alone story, kind of the manga's extra you might say, called The Tiger and The Chameleon. It is a VERY touching story all by itself.
It has been pointed out that the events in the anime ends at volume 8, but the manga goes on, so I plan to collect as many of the manga volumes as I can to see what's going to happen beyond the anime's ending. Masami Tsuda is a great artist and really seems to understand the human heart.
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Summary: She was perfect...
Review: She was the number one student in her class. She was the best at everything and always willing to help. She was pretty and smart. And a total fake. She did it for the grades and for the praise.
Then he came. He was just as smart, handsome and well liked. And he seemed to do it without a problem, as if he wasn't even trying.
Here are the first three chapters of the manga kare kano, also known as his and her circumstances. Serious, funny, painful and so real it really seems to touch our memories of what school was REALLY like.
This volume also holds a stand-alone story, kind of the manga's extra you might say, called The Tiger and The Chameleon. It is a VERY touching story all by itself.
It has been pointed out that the events in the anime ends at volume 8, but the manga goes on, so I plan to collect as many of the manga volumes as I can to see what's going to happen beyond the anime's ending. Masami Tsuda is a great artist and really seems to understand the human heart.
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Summary: Disappointing to a fan of the anime.
Review: The anime of Kareshi Kanojyo no Jiyo is one of the masterpieces of shoujo anime. It was cancelled after a short run, however, because Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno disagreed on the direction the show should take. (Gainax wanted a romantic COMEDY, Tsuda wanted a ROMANTIC comedy.) While I was originally driven away from the manga because of this, curiosity got the better of me, and I decided that there must have been something good there to inspire Anno and Gainax to adapt it. I was wrong. This manga lacks all of the elements that made the anime good (Humor, Good art, Irreverence, etc.) and merely focuses on tension between the characters. If I wanted tension I would rewatch Evangelion, not read shoujo comedy. The one thing that set the anime so far above the rest of the shoujo comedies was that the characters didn't spend all their time angsting. My best guess as to why Gainax chose to adapt it in the first place is because they like working with messed up characters (Evangelion, Ebichu, FLCL, etc.) The reason that it gets two stars instead of one is that I only give one star ratings to things that are so bad that they're actually painful, and Kare Kano is just completely and utterly uninteresting.
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Summary: Totally Unexpected
Review: The reason I bought this book was to see if I could find a new series that my friends and I could enjoy (you see, we trade mangas with each other). I wasn't expecting too much from this, since I wasn't too sure if I should buy it or not but I'm really impressed! This series is wonderful and the artwork is as well. I'm very pleased to start my collection of mangas with this.
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Summary: Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou
Review: This is a manga series that while classified as a Shojo (girls') manga, has as been widely recieved by all audiences in Japan because of its characters, their flaws and the challanges they face. You could say that on a more intellectual level this is man versus himself, man versus man, and man versus nature. Tsuda Masami has put together a good story about a variety of people (high schoolers); with views from different people of who think the kids are, who the kids think they are, and what the kids think they want to be. And you laugh with it as you go. It is unique in that such deep subject matter can be tackled and atill kept light-hearted. You follow the story of Yukino and Souichiro as they find their paths together once getting past some issues (grades are involved, a long with some personality issues) after meeting in Senior High. Also, friends that they make get their own development arcs in the story. The manga is still being released in Japan. It first appears in LaLa magazine (each act appears monthly) then is compiled into a tankoubon (manga) each getting anywhere from three to five acts. In the US we currently have up to Vol. 8 released. In Japan they have up to Vol. 17, which will soon be followed by Vol. 18. Vol. 18 won't be the last, the series will go through to Yukino's and Soiichiro's Senior year. So in Japan, by the end of this year the series should come to an end. This Manga also has a short Anime Series, known as His and Her Cirumstances, which is basically all from their first semester Sophomore year up to their 2nd semester. It has 26 episodes. So you don't get the whole story there, but it's still fun to see animated. That's all the "other" details you might want. For what the stories entail there is reviews from this site, information at www.tokyopop.com, and www.gainax.co.jp.
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Summary: A scarily enough.. real-life book...
Review: This is a VERy good manga.. as many before me have said. The scary thing though is that I'm almost exactly like Miyazawa and we look alike slightly too. If you are into school Drama/Comedy manga, this is a definate one for you. The characters are likeable, and some scenes are very funny. I'm just wiating for the 7th volume!
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