Review: “Kare Kano, Vol. 7”
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 7 by Masami Tsuda
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
My love for the anime series “Kare Kano” brought me to the books, and the first several volumes offered the same mix of humor and poetic introspection that made me love the anime. In Volume 7, however, author Masami Tsuda seems to be running out of steam. She spends more of the book dealing with the side story of a transfer student and his love-hate relationship with secondary character Sakura (a girl who happens to look a lot like the male protagonist Soichiro). I realize I’m not the target audience for these manga (preteen girls), but if this volume had been the first one I’d read, I never would have read more.