Shizuru SeinoBesprekingen

I remember finding this manga 'late'. After beginning to burn out with all the 'too stupid to live' heroines, who kept crying for one reason or another, I found this. And was hooked. I can remember it took a while (how did I do it without a salary?!) to get all the volumes but it was worth it.

I don't know if this is worth purchasing any of the rest of the series. It's cute and has that "Awww..." feeling from the kids being all insecure and liking each other but not wanting to come to terms with it and denying it, but the editing is kind of atrocious and the composition of this comic lacks flow due to the poor placement of thought and speech bubbles and lines... In fact, there are points at which it is unclear whether a character is *thinking* a thought or saying something quietly to themselves because there is little editing to clearly differentiate those two concepts. It's still really cute, though. 3 stars for amusing and thoughtful content with piss-poor editing.

I just love all of it. I read # 1-5 in one night and # 6 the day after. That is how much these books catch my interest. I also hope the since i am a very good a drawing anime that I will write a manga book and also draw the pictures....

Girl Got Game starts with Kyo's father announcing that he has enrolled her as a boy at a new school so that she can play on the male basketball team. He wants to live vicariously through his daughter. She, pretending to be a he, ends up sharing a dorm with one of her male teammates, Chiharu. They drive each other crazy and have to learn to get along for the good of the team and their own sanity.This series as a whole is mediocre. It starts off strong but gets weak. I started to notice it with the slap-stick silliness. It seems like the author put it in as a filler and it throws the plot off course. The writing is lacking and that is the most important thing, even with a manga.If you like the girl pretending to be a boy theme you should go with one of the more popular series, like Hana-Kimi or W Juliet. I haven't read them but they have to be better than Girl Got Game.

This series as a whole is mediocre. It starts off strong but gets weak. I started to notice it with the slap-stick silliness. It seems like the author put it in as a filler and it throws the plot off course. The writing is lacking and that is the most important thing, even with a manga.If you like the girl pretending to be a boy theme you should go with one of the more popular series, like Hana-Kimi or W Juliet. I haven't read them but they have to be better than Girl Got Game.

Chiemi is a troublemaker at school, infamous for starting fights. She's on the verge of getting kicked out when a deal is proposed: Get the OTHER troublemaker Hirata in line, and her record will be cleared. She makes her first confrontation, kicking him in the head, telling him off, and then running away. Next day when he sees her, he asks her out. ...This is all in the first 12 pages. Then, well. I guess strap down for the usual romance with a little violence thrown in?

Which might be a little harsh, I'm not sure. Shoujo in general isn't really for me, but in my perhaps sillier moments I've harbored thoughts that someday I'll find a shoujo that doesn't bore me or that I don't actively dislike, just so I can say, 'See? I'm not close-minded!' So this is from that perspective. Usually I might try a little more to comment on how this compares to the average, but I really haven't read enough to know. So.

This was recommended to me by someone who knew I didn't like the usual shoujo, on the basis that the two main characters were so violent it was funny. The humor, though, I found of the usual manga variety of 'wacky and off the wall but with no originality or actual wit.' Not horrible, but out of the usual.

As for the violence, I think the potentially fun things about this to me were that such supposedly violent characters ought to have very different and possibly more interesting personalities of those in usual shoujo. And also, it's pretty much a guarantee of a strong heroine, right? The heroine is no doormat, that I can concede. Unfortunately that doesn't make things inherently interesting, just less irritating. As for my hypothesis about interesting personalities, the manga makes pretty much no attempt to actually give these characters the personalities of violent, rowdy people. Pretty much from the get-go, we are immediately introduced to the fact that both of them fight either for noble reasons, or because others start the fights first. The excuses for the guy's bad reputation are paper-thin, and he pretty much wears his sweet, simple gentlemanlyness on his sleeve. The girl is a little irritable, but mostly nice. They punch and kick things once in a while, but that's about it.

I guess if shoujo's you're thing and all you need to like it is a non-wimpy heroine, you might like this. But if you're looking for something that will stand out from the rest beyond that, this probably won't do anything for you. Even with all it's desire to show off it's strong heroine, the romantic climaxes always still seem to revolve around the strong male coming to save the heroine in a jam. It's still just your average romance, appealing directly to the (base? ^_^) desires to have a perfect sweet boyfriend, have him come to your rescue in times of distress, and to have him get horribly jealous when you're hanging around other guys. ^_^;½

Love Attack is a relatively straightforward comedic shoujo story about a pair who are more than a little bit rough around the edges. Despite having previously read scanlations, I found that I came to the material fresh and enjoyed it all over again. The action is far less confusing than in some of the mangaka's other work and the characters more engaging and three dimensional right off the bat. This is a series that I can, and will, recommend unreservedly.

I picked up Shizuru Seino's Heaven!! based on my enjoyment of her previous series Power!! (aka Girl Got Game in the US) and Jun'ai Tokkou Taichou. This series, however, was not nearly as engaging. I found the story (and art) frenetic and without the charm of either of the other series. I realize that this is supposed to be a slight variation on your usual 'girl with supernatural powers' story, but on the whole it just didn't work for me. I won't be picking up volume 2.½