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Review: “Kare Kano, Vol. 8”

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 8Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 8 by Masami Tsuda
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Picking up where the previous volume left off, author Masami Tsuda’s manga romance/comedy continues to follow the stories of a number of high-school students. The artwork in this installment is so strong that it actually changed my mind about the story involving Tonami, the transfer student introduced in the previous volume. I’m particularly fond of the flashback sections featuring Tonami as a chubby boy; they help to explain his low self-esteem. In this volume, Soichiro and Yukino, the main characters, come to the foreground again, with Soichiro trying to reconcile two different aspects of his personality: kind and giving, and angry and possessive.

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Review: “Kare Kano, Vol. 7”

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 7Kare 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.

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