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Strawberry Panic Omnibus (2010)

by Sakurako Kimino(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1934876836 (ISBN13: 9781934876831)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Seven Seas

review 1: Welcome to Astrea Hill, where three girls schools are sectioned into three parts; St. Miator Girls Academy, St.Spica Girls Institute, and St. Lulim Girls School. New transfer student, Aoi-Nagisa enters St. Miator Girls Academy, where she encounters the stunning and beautiful Hanazono-Shizuma. Little did she know during their brief meeting, that she is adored by the entire student body and represents all three schools. In other words, this royalty like status is known as being an Etoile. Throughout the story, one of the most revered events in all of Astrea Hill's three schools is the Etoile Competition. An Etoile Competition is a high status for all three schools, which is a competition produced every year throughout the semesters of Astrea Hill. Nagisa-Chan, the protago... morenist of the entire story, begins to question Shizuma's true motives for entering here, a first year transfer student, into this wondrous event to which she feels that she cant possibly compete in. In actuality, Shizuma enters in with her not for the glory fromthe student body, nor for the attention of her status which she had already claimed the previous year. No, her true motives, are more then just what it seems, and how Shizuma feels is more then just friendly. Other characters in the manga that you will adore hopefully as much as I have is Suzumi-Tamao-Chan, Nagisa-Chan's lovely roommate, Minamoto-Chikaru, St. Lulim Girls student counsel president, and many others adorable characters. It wasn't a complex read and the pace of the story was very alluring, it was a real page turner for me. The illustrations were quite exceptional, and with this being a Yuri, it was definitely browsing through more then 7 times. It's not like Yuri Hime Wildrose, but because of the story plot, it wasn't even necessary to make it into explicit kind of Yuri. I like how it focused on the relationships developing between characters rather then just focusing on the fact that their all girls and then next thing you know, there having hot lesbian sex *dramatic gasp*. Seriously though, it's a nice and satisfying Yuri manga, and what I really admire is the fact that its a realistic kind of Yuri in the sense of school life, making friends, relationships, etc. My only critique on the manga is how it ended, it had left me feeling slightly empty. It was unfinished, and was supposed to be the complete manga collection. However, there is the complete novel addition, with an actual end, so if you feel compelled to finish the story, read the novel edition. The is also an anime adaption based on the manga. This is a Classic Yuri every Lesbian or Bisexual girl in real life should get to read. A very heart warming story similar to the manga Girl Friends, which you will want to relive again and again.
review 2: I read this for work because I had to confirm that it was not, in fact, YA. I've never read any "girls love" manga before, which is what I'm assuming this is. It was cute and kind of surreal, although the upperclassmen are at times predatory and disturbing. Overall it was better than much of the small sampling of manga I've read, although disappointing that we don't see the storyline end naturally. less

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