A Brief Review of Some Completed Shoujo Manga because I'm a 33-year-old sad loser
I don't know how to do this without spoilers, philosophical persnicketiness, or proper review elements whatsoever, so I'll just bulldoze my way through it. I've been reading manga the past few evenings. I started with Iya da Nante Iwasenai , an average work about a relationship between two childhood friends whose love is constantly challenged by an age difference. Magnet na Watashitachi was a bit better, if only because the female protagonist wasn't as annoying, and the male protagonist is severely dysfunctional (though without the comedy of the one in Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun .) It's your formulaic outcast-helped-by-a-compassionate-person story, with lolicon subtexts that aren't disruptive, and the female character is okay. Kiken Mania 's female, by contrast, is... Wait, by far , the most annoying of all the female protagonists in both manga and anime that I can recall off the top of my head, perhaps because it's made explicit time and again that she&