Review:
This is a one volume manga composed of 3 stories.
The first story and the longest is quite uncommon and cute in it’s way, it is definitely funny most of the time as well as frustrating. Ryouta’kun is in charge of delivery for Aizawa-san’s street, but on their first encounter Ryouta is totally surprised to see the big guy signing his papers wearing a huge-creepy rabbit head. Thing that keeps repeating daily making Ryouta getting all types of ideas, until one day when he accidentally spots Aizawa-san without the rabbit head…
Second story features the attempts of the student council president, Segawa, trying to convince the talented student pianist, Fujimura, to perform in the culture festival.
And the third story presents the struggles of Tatchan and Shouhei in their relationship.
All stories were good, but if I were to pick the one I found most funny and memorable, that would be the third despite it’s short length. Still, all of them present different aspects of struggles both on a personnel and relationship level. The artwork is good and we get some steamy scenes as well.
Review:
Kirishima Haru has it all: good looks, sparkling personality, and the ability to excel at everything he does. Unfortunately, being perfect is boring, and Haru loses interest in anything he does within three hours.
One day, Haru receives a call from his brother asking him to help debug a game their company is producing… the same game Haru programmed in high school in three hours. It’s a virtual reality dating simulation in which players create an avatar that can fall in love with and date the various NPCs (non-player characters) or other players, and the virtual reality technology lets players feel like they’re really in the game world.
Haru agrees to help debug the game, and as soon as he logs in, he literally runs into the first NPC—a plain-looking man with low in-game stats named Takatsuki Ichi. Haru is initially unimpressed, wondering if perhaps such a plain NPC is a glitch, and tells Ichi that falling in love with him is “impossible.” When Ichi runs into an invisible wall and sadly mentions that he’s never seen the ocean, Haru makes a startling declaration: he’ll take Ichi to the sea… in three hours.
DistopiA is a slow-burn romance (with just a bit of smut) that explores the difference between reality and virtual reality, functioning and glitching. Haru, the perfect prince bored of real life who finds vivid color in an incomplete game world, and Ichi, the NPC who has never fallen in love with a player before, have a lot of hurdles to overcome if they’re to obtain the best ending.
Overall: cute story and average to above average art. A little heavy on the philosophy, but in the end it’s still a fun read that will leave you with a smile on your face.
Review:
If you look closely at the cover art, you see the dark haired one holding a certain familiar packet. The two heart bubbles also show something that implies something with plenty of heat and excitement, and I don’t mean no firetruck. Yet this manga is actually more on the sweet side (Still has a decent dash of spicy though!).
Nana-kun is the light-haired one. And he’s good-looking and charming and many other positive and NICE attributes. Let's not forget that he is, as the title suggests, a virgin. However, his naturally cool personality has people considering him a smooth operator~. Yes, he’s ironically labelled a playboy.
So as he gets to know his new friend, the dark-haired, straight forward, and openly not straight (pun intended), Mizuno, Nana-kun ends up requesting his help to ‘practice’ so he can graduate from him virgin status.
The story and characters are seriously so adorable and cute and FLUFFY. There was one scene in particular that caught me by surprise and I was choking down laughter. It’s a short read, so have a read and post about your favorite part, let’s see if we match, or if I just have a super weird sense of humor!
02-27-2019, 11:33 PM
kerlyness
These were all good. For a while, #2 and #3 were tied, but #3 nudged ahead with a little bit more flavor.
02-28-2019, 05:33 AM
ellymate
Will definitely try them, but 3 has some special "fluff" to it that made me think: Yep, I'll go with this first. It really has something that triggers the desire to read it as soon as possible.
03-01-2019, 04:17 PM
savagehunger47
Review 3 for me! I had the same feel as @ellymate. The review gave me the feel that I wanted to really read the mango, more so than the first two (which were both very well written!)
03-02-2019, 12:17 AM
laketica
Very difficult to vote... I read each review twice... ended up just going with my gut feeling. :hahaha: Thanks for the reviews! I'm thinking... I'm gonna hafta go check out these titles... :am: