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Strobe Edge, Tome 1 (2011)

by Io Sakisaka(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

2505011834 (ISBN13: 9782505011835)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Kana

series

Strobe Edge

review 1: A really sweet series from start to finish. I was a tad skeptical at the start of volume 1, since our main teen heroine (Ninako Kinoshita) came across as dumber than a door knob. But she evolved pretty quickly into just a sweet, energetic, extremely naive young woman. The full series reminds me of a "lighter" version of something like Kimi ni Todoke - we follow the various romance escapades of a group of interrelated young high school students. And as happens in any high school/teen age group, the ups and downs (and twists and turns and switcheroos) are many. And watching the teens mature over the course of their high school years is endearing. But at the heart of the series is sweet Ninako's devotion to her first love (Ren Ichinose), and Ren's struggle to give up on a pro... moremise to his current girlfriend (who he loves more as a friend than a lover) and to open himself up to a true love relationship. I had all of those happy, tummy-fluttering moments as the series drew to a close....
review 2: Sakisaka, Io. Strobe Edge. VIZ Media, 2013.Ninako is in love with Ren, but he's already dating someone. And another boy likes Ninako, but she's only interested in Ren and continually turns down Boy #2. This is the entire plot for at least the first six of these books. Ninako is obsessed with Ren, who thinks she's nice and all but is already dating and isn't looking for someone new. This book irritated the fire out of me. The first volume was bad enough with this, "I love Ren!! He's so cute! I want to date him! But he's not interested. But he's so cute!" line repeated ad nauseum. But when I discovered that this. same. storyline continues in all six of the books, I about died. I had to allow myself breaks between volumes so I could clean out my head with something enjoyable, something that contained a plot. The only interesting things in these books were the scattered side panels the author threw in with information about herself - her chinchillas, how she learned to drive, the fact that mints make her sneeze, etc.The art in these books is okay. Not awesome. The main character very often looks drugged and spacey (see the cover of Vol. 4 for proof), and the rest of the art is average for a manga, but didn't stand out to me at all. I just cannot understand why these books won a YMA from ALA this year, unless they decided they had to include a manga in the graphic novel awards. All of that being said, my students who love manga will eat this up. I'm glad they will, because these books are certainly not staying in my house.Recommended for: tweens and teens, probably mostly girls due to subject matterRed Flags: noneOverall Rating: 2/5 stars less

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