Overall, all smoke, no fire--and not even much of that. It's more about the romance and one-sided, unrequited romance at that as Shizumasa is standoffish towards Haine than anything.
May 04, Miss Ryoko rated it it was ok Shelves: manga , library-book. Hopefully this series will pick up because I'm in it for the long haul The first volume was very meh. The main character is bipolar It's always strange to me when manga-ka give female leads two crazy opposing personality traits. I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing that someone who is ditzy and always happy was once a yanki - someone who was violent and gruff.
I can understand a yanki going soft - someone who made a choice to change their life a Hopefully this series will pick up because I'm in it for the long haul I can understand a yanki going soft - someone who made a choice to change their life and become a better version of themselves I know her ditziness is supposed to be endearing and make her lovable, but it doesn't work on me.
I find it annoying. Then there was the "twist" with the main male lead He only said that to keep girls away. I thought that'd put an interesting twist on the story, though the more I read, the more I worried that he would suddenly not be gay because of Haine So that was also slightly annoying. The warden looks like a cool dude though. There are parts of this I think will make for an interesting read, and hopefully it WILL pick up and get more interesting and less annoying.
But for now, I was definitely not impressed with the first volume. In fact, I'm actually a bit surprised anyone continued reading after this first installment. On to the next and with hope it'll be better View all 3 comments.
This manga is a great example of why people think manga is ridiculous. Haine is a girl from a poor family who wants to join the student council at her school and earn enough points to become a silver at her school! Yes, this particular school ranks its students based on how rich they are, from bronze to gold. The only gold-worthy student is the "Emperor," a student who basically rules the school.
Haine is in love with him, and this is pretty much all she can seem to talk about. Wow, I'm sorry, but I just don't understand the appeal of the shojo genre. And this is coming from a girl who loves pictures of Hello Kitty and makes jewelry based on the My Little Pony cutie marks because they're so gosh-dern cute!
Seriously, even I can't handle the weird and confusing gushing of these books. The plot is super awkward. The characters are annoying. The only saving grace for me is the artwork.
I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because I can see why some other might like it, but it's definitely not for me. Jul 12, Deb rated it it was ok Recommends it for: shojo geeks. Shelves: manga , fantasy-sf.
Haine is a former Yanki girl thug who reformed after encountering and falling in love with Shizumasa Togu, the student council president nicknamed "The Emperor" at her elite boarding school. In the first volume of this series, after a series of misunderstandings Haine is placed on the student council as the Emperor's bodyguard. Feb 03, Starbubbles rated it liked it Shelves: manga. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
The most of the relationships in here have drama surrounding them. While I enjoyed this reading, some of the relationships in here are, at best, problematic. They each have their own reasons for being problematic, and it is not addressed how they aren't exactly on the up and up. I love Arina Tanemura's art! She has awesome drawing skills. But so far, it's a good 3-stars. It's terrifically original!!
But I do remember that I was thinking of giving G. Cross a three star rating. The romance is a little blurry, but otherwise, this series was very very interesting. I look forw I love Arina Tanemura's art! I look forward to reading more! May 04, Thetravelingpanda rated it really liked it. The art is still great and awesome! The story is very different from Full Moon, which is a good thing because usually manga authors are always doing the same type of stories.
It is the story of Haine who is entering a very prestigious school and meet "the president" an elite member whom she has loved from childhood. Haine is a cute and lovable character she seems to be a bit like Mitsuki, never letting herself down a As soon as I finished to read Full Moon, I started this manga of Arina Tanemura.
Haine is a cute and lovable character she seems to be a bit like Mitsuki, never letting herself down and always looking on the positive side even when her story is very dark and sad.
Sep 07, Elizabeth rated it liked it Shelves: graphic-novels-and-manga. Another girly high school manga revolving around a girl who likes a boy who doesn't really pay any attention to her and is way out of her social group but she's cute and nice and most everyone who gets to know her really ends up liking her The series gets better after the first book or two it's hard to remember since I read most of them online. Gave this bad boy a reread. It is really good and I can understand why I liked it so much back then.
Now I need to get Vol -. Dec 11, Jack rated it liked it. One big spoiler be warned The art is good and the first few volumes builds the story quite nicely, the problem for me was the ending. The author Tanemura started with two concepts 1 it would not be clear who the main heroine Haine would end up with until the end and 2 the authors notes state that she wanted the heroine to be married to both love interests yes both love interests who are brothers. Brave concept but ultimately left an ending with Haine married to one brother and living with bot One big spoiler be warned The art is good and the first few volumes builds the story quite nicely, the problem for me was the ending.
Brave concept but ultimately left an ending with Haine married to one brother and living with both with hints that Haine still did not know who she wanted to be with; this was emphasised when on her wedding day after the ceremony the other brother returned causing Haine to run straight to his arms after which she has an internal monologue stating that she still has feelings for the other brother and hoped her husband could forgive her ending the main story.
The authors note state that she changed her mind about the double marriage at the last moment and it shows. The author added a few extra bonus stories in an attempt to try and clarify the Haine now only loved the main male role but it felt very added on. Overall the plot is average but the heroine become rather annoying from vol 6 onwards with her inability to deal with her feelings. In hindsight I think I would choose to spend my money on another series. Jan 04, Jess rated it liked it. First manga of the year was just okay for me.
I absolutely love the art style - I think the characters are absolutely gorgeous BUT there were a few things that didn't sit well with me.
There is a character who fakes being gay and I didn't like the way it was handled. It was a little convoluted at times in terms of the storyline but towards the end of vol. It's clear that her younger brother through adoption is in love with Haine. I've noticed t First manga of the year was just okay for me.
Now the positives: 1. Haine is so naive that she just blurts out all of her thoughts and it is very refreshing to see characters who does bottle things up. I hate when problems arise because characters won't talk about things.
As I mentioned before I adore this art style. Their big eyes, detail in their hair, and the mini sheep thing that Maora has is SO cute. I'm a sucker for romance so I love Haines devotion to the same guy who helped her years ago. I dearly hope I enjoy the story in later volumes. To be quite honest, if I hadn't already bought the next few volumes I probably would not be continuing this series but since I have Vol.
Jan 23, Susan rated it it was ok. The Gentleman's Alliance Cross is very pretty! Whenever I think "shojo art", I think of something like this.
Other options include the art of Skip Beat! I'm sorry! All of the main female characters are large-eyed and lovely, with gorgeous costume design and fascinating hair - which has the disadvantage of sometimes making it really hard to tell anyone apart. There are some panels where I've actually had to sit and squint to work out who the hell is talking because I couldn't just couldn't tell , and sometimes the panels feel busy and cluttered.
On the whole though: very pretty, and very much my style. The story Haine Otomiya is in love with Shizumasa Togo, Emperor of Imperial Academy, and is doing her best to earn her way to a ranking in school that means that she can actually see him. To that end she fights snake-bombing trouble-makers, "rescues" Togo from "kidnappers", joins the student council, attempts to reconcile the boy who convinced her to give up her delinquent lifestyle with the icy Emperor of Imperial Academy and change both him and the way the council operates for the better.
I have no problem with the story, in theory - all of these elements can be interesting! It's just that they're put together in a way that I'm really Not okay with. Fine, okay - except that when he is reformed and stops raising hell at the school, his skin changes colour. His skin actually changes colour depending on his alignment. As another example: Shizumasa, at the start of the manga, is secretly dating Maguri - one of the male characters.
Except that no, actually, this is a one-sided relationship where Maguri is in love with Shizumasa and Shizumasa is using him so that none of the girls in school bother asking Shizumasa out. Okay, fine, that is could also be an interesting plotline - except that no, wait, he dumps Maguri so that the main character can be his fake girlfriend even though that makes no sense and will only cause more problems! Worst of all, the break-up scene is presented as something comedic - the characters are in chibi form, pulling faces.
When the manga has an entire plotline about Haine trying to get Shizumasa to take her feelings seriously, this just feels cruel and disrespectful. Doesn't it defeat the point if you're telling you're audience to take one character's love and dedication seriously and laugh at another's?
Plus, the manga somehow manages to make Maguri's relationship all about Haine and her issues! When that happened I did have a moment of "Well that is a sweet scene and in retrospect it makes sense with her issues But why did the characters even think of that? Aside from that I am bemused by the school's policy of "Boys wear ribbons and girls wear neckties, which they then swap once they start dating" because a enforced heteronormativy is strange and confusing, and b why would a school want to encourage dating rather than focusing on work?
But then, nothing about the structure of Imperial Academy makes sense, really, especially considering that the student council RULE THE SCHOOL and also the rank system which allocates students to different social and academics classes based upon, primarily, how much money a student's family donated upon enrollment.
Moving on to the main point of the manga at last! I know! I find her really interesting in terms of her backstory; it's very rare in my experience; if anyone has any recommendations please leave them in the comments!
So this is something I really liked, as well as the fact that Haine owned up to her past and has tried to move past it. However, I can live with this, because Haine is not my favourite. Translation : Tetsuichiro Miyaki. Lettering : Rachel Galliano Vol. Touch-up Art : Rachel Galliano Vol.
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