| Cloudman said: Yeah, I just finished the 1st part where Imamura gets the old members to return and saved the club. This manga really is a good read. It's well written, the characters are great, and the humor is great as well. I love the honey trap girls joke, and Aki as well as the glasses guy are just too funny. Her character not how I expected at all. She's pretty goofy and just an overall oddball compared to Imamura, and seems quite lonely... The glasses guy though, his random English cursing just cracks me up. The manga overall is quite comical, even though I feel like that's not the goal of it, and it's pretty great. Characters are well made and memorable too, even the minor ones. Imumura is nothing like his appearance and is quite timid, Usami is way too strict and stubborn to a fault, Aki is not such a bad girl and is quite funny and friendly, Reo is a very friendly, kind, and kind of not very shy of a person (Who else would actually go through with talking with Imamura with his scary appearance and reputation) It makes for unique characters and story, and doesn't do cliche things like other manga. Well, except maybe the lead cheerleader. She feels very much a typical villain, but it works here. Overall, it's great and I am hooked. I can't stop reading it.. |
What I like is that the manga keeps being fun. Yeah, there are serious moments and themes but it never turns into a drag. The comedic timing is just really good. I admire writers who can do that. As you mentioned, I think Aki is a good example, where she acts like an airhead so often but now and then she will show a much deeper expression. She's funny and sort of a scatterbrain but she is also shrewd and insightful in some areas.
I think you've almost caught up to me ...
Also, I love Reo. She's a great character, too. I didn't want to mention her until after the honey trap incident, though. And, yes, the honey trap label is hilarious. I loved it when Aki first called her that but then got stuck with it herself. Reo probably goes through as much conflict in the manga as anyone but she's such a good person that she still tries to help. I really want her to end up happy. Inamura's mom is also really funny.
This is where I'm at now and I think this page is a good example of how the manga keeps the serious moments from being gloomy.
