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<\/a>By Karuho Shiina<\/strong>\nPublisher:<\/strong> Viz Media
\nGenre:<\/strong> Romance
\nAge Rating: <\/b>Teen
\nPrice:<\/b> $8.99<\/p>\n
I liked the first chapter preview of this title in Shojo Beat<\/em>, and was glad that it lasted for the whole volume.\u00a0 Sawako is a victim of misunderstandings, which, thanks to Kazehaya, an outgoing and popular boy in her high school class, she starts trying to rectify.\u00a0 Her tentative reaching out to fellow classmates meets with some success, not everyone likes the attention she keeps getting from Kazehaya.<\/p>\n The plot of this title seems clich\u00e9.\u00a0 The misunderstood shy girl who makes friends with the popular boy, and suddenly she’s popular too.\u00a0 But that’s not the draw of this title.\u00a0 It’s all about the characters.\u00a0 Sawako doesn’t try to be scary, but being quiet and shy, smiles don’t come fast and easy to her, making her appear something she isn’t.\u00a0 Her pure innocence makes her endearing though.\u00a0 She’s not clueless or absent-minded, she just isn’t sure about how to approach people. This all changes with the arrival of Kazehaya.<\/p>\n Kazehaya is the popular boy who cheerful and friendly.\u00a0 He’s friends with everyone, and all the girls have their eyes on him to be more than just friends.\u00a0 But Kazehaya seems to have his eyes on Sawako.\u00a0 At first, he’s the only person who will greet her and doesn’t pull away in fear.\u00a0 He actually calls her by her given name, and will look in her eyes, though his reason for looking away is different from other people.\u00a0 To the reader, it’s clear he has feelings for Sawako, but as she is just discovering friendship, it never occurs to her that Kazehaya’s attentions might be for more than that.<\/p>\n Sawako’s first high school friends are Yano and Yoshida.\u00a0 They look like the clique, bullying types, but turn out to the opposite.\u00a0 After Sawako explains she can’t really attract ghosts, and that she really just wants to make friends, they warm up to her.\u00a0 Yoshida is especially impressed by Sawako’s innocence.\u00a0 Yoshida is cute in her own way.\u00a0 With these three people around her, Sawako starts to make more friends in class, or at least seems less scary to classmates.\u00a0 When she genuinely smiles, it impresses (and shocks) everyone around her.<\/p>\n All of these characters and they way they interact really made this a great volume to read.\u00a0 It feels good every time you see Sawako make a friend, and sad when she thinks Kazehaya might not want to talk to her anymore, and she fears being alone again.\u00a0 Sawako, Kazehaya, Yano and Yoshida made a great circle of friends that just grows by the end of volume one, but this is a shojo title, so all can’t be well in paradise.<\/p>\n Unbeknownst to her, Sawako has made enemies.\u00a0 Girls that lurk in the shadows, and that don’t approve of the attention she’s been getting from Kazehaya.\u00a0 They appear here and there throughout the volume, and don’t make a move until the end, targeting not Sawako, but Yano and Yoshida.\u00a0 The volume ends on a cliffhanger.\u00a0 We don’t know how Yano and Yoshida will react, and I would hope they won’t react the way they’re meant to.\u00a0 It’s really obvious what’s happening, but High School girls are known for being rational, and rumors can cause a lot of pain.\u00a0 But we won’t know until next volume.<\/p>\n Overall, Kimi ni Todoke<\/i> is a wonderful story so far.\u00a0 The romance is sweet and implied.\u00a0 Sawako’s awakening is a beautiful thing to see, and I really hope she has the friends that will stand by her and help her open up more.\u00a0 I highly recommend this title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine…for a horror movie.\u00a0 With striking similarities to a haunting movie character–jet-black hair, sinister smile and silent demeanor–she’s mistakenly called Sadako by those around her.\u00a0 But behind her scary facade is a very misunderstood teenager.\u00a0 Too shy to fit in, all she wants to do is make some friends.\u00a0 But when the most popular boy in class befriends her, she’s sure to make more than just that–she’s about to make some enemies too! By Karuho Shiina Publisher: Viz Media Genre: Romance Age Rating: Teen Price: $8.99 I liked the first chapter preview of this title in Shojo Beat, and was glad that it lasted for the whole volume.\u00a0 Sawako is a victim of misunderstandings, which, thanks to Kazehaya, an outgoing and popular boy in her high school class, she starts trying to rectify.\u00a0 Her tentative reaching out to fellow classmates meets with some success, not everyone likes the attention she keeps getting from Kazehaya. The plot of this title seems clich\u00e9.\u00a0 The misunderstood shy girl who makes friends with the popular boy, and suddenly she’s popular too.\u00a0 But that’s not the draw of this title.\u00a0 It’s all about the characters.\u00a0 Sawako doesn’t try to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[83,110,120,121,135],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-reviews","category-viz-media","tag-manga","tag-review","tag-shojo","tag-shojo-beat","tag-teen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-VS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4086,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/4086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}