Questions are good things. They are there to get to know others and to find the common ground with each other, with the people we want to love. Well, I would think that the biggest thing I need to learn is to love myself. I think at least. I like lists, I make lists, mainly about anime and manga that I want to read and watch. And sometimes about American books too. My life does revolve around things that I consume. And I do not know if I am fine with that. I would like to fancy myself that I like philosophy, but in truth, I like the idea of philosophy. In the sense, philosophy means the love of knowledge, because we cannot know everything. So we need to start with things that we do not know, even though there are many famous figures in philosophy, I do not want to read from them. Because the biggest thing that I do not know if myself. And, as I am right now, I am more interested in filling the emptiness in me, if that makes sense. But I like questions. So, I went out and looked for que
Another review as we go, I will possibly spoil somethings for you. This one is short.
Fuyuko can't get rid of Sawai who wouldn't leave her apartment, but he claims to be his long lost brother. Fuyuko doesn't believe this, but since she is learning to be an actress, she agrees to play along with him and play make-believe with him. [Spoiler: We never really get to know if the two of them are siblings or not. This is not really an insta-romance since they spend quite a time with each other. It is also implied that Sawai is just using Fuyuko to stay so he could write his scrip for a competition, I don't know, this is strange.]
In the next story featuring Suzuki Hana, a well-known singer who starts working on the radio as an assistant and co-host. I don't like this one, it gets pretty confusing pretty fast. There are two love interests, Minakami and Zen, but neither of them is that interesting. [Spoiler: I think she dates Minakami and then ends up loving Zen, but it is convoluted and not that well understood. And this is strange because this is almost double the length of the previous one.] The characters are all over the place and the only one who is well understood is Minakami, but he is pretty much standing with only one leg in the story and somewhere else with the other.
The third story is a kind of modern fairy tale retelling with a hard-working An who likes helping people and Haroumi, who is a rich son of a business owner. Spoilers, there is a waltz involved. The point of the story is that Haroumi, who runs away and finds shelter at An and her father's place learns humility and finds out why An likes to help people.
Yuzuko and Mogami are dating but it is not going good. They go out on a trip into the mountains but they get stuck out in the mountain in a blizzard. Under this stay, they get closer to each other. This is a good story.
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I hadn't really realized that this is an anthology when I had started reading it, I just saw that it was short. "Gokko" is a simple one-volume manga created by Sakurakouji Kanoko.
Story one is decent if a little bit concerning not being that clear in what happened. While story two is a big confusion. [Spoiler: I hadn't realized at what point did Minakami and Hana started dating, however the fact that Hana went from kind of being scared from Minakami then liking him is well done. Minakami is a kind person with a cold demeanor.] The third story is maybe worse than the previous one, it is cute and fine until you reach the end of the one-shot. The conflict is strange and almost nonsensical. It made me angry because up until that point, it was fine and good. [Spoiler: I think that the father had disappeared just to give An a reason to go to the waltz?] With the fourth story, I have no problem, it is a pretty middle of the road story and ends how you would expect.
In my opinion, first story is best, then fourth, then third and then the second. However, the stories are bland and just feeling okay. I felt like I wasted my time with this and that is not a good feeling.
The art is not my style and the character looks a little bit too similar to each other and has this run of the mill shoujo style, which is fine but I think that it can have more personality than that. The background is simplistic too.
The characters are not really important, I know that in romance the characters take a back seat, but they are not interesting, and I don't think that the shortness of the stories could have been a problem with this.
SCORE: 3/10
Fuyuko can't get rid of Sawai who wouldn't leave her apartment, but he claims to be his long lost brother. Fuyuko doesn't believe this, but since she is learning to be an actress, she agrees to play along with him and play make-believe with him. [Spoiler: We never really get to know if the two of them are siblings or not. This is not really an insta-romance since they spend quite a time with each other. It is also implied that Sawai is just using Fuyuko to stay so he could write his scrip for a competition, I don't know, this is strange.]
In the next story featuring Suzuki Hana, a well-known singer who starts working on the radio as an assistant and co-host. I don't like this one, it gets pretty confusing pretty fast. There are two love interests, Minakami and Zen, but neither of them is that interesting. [Spoiler: I think she dates Minakami and then ends up loving Zen, but it is convoluted and not that well understood. And this is strange because this is almost double the length of the previous one.] The characters are all over the place and the only one who is well understood is Minakami, but he is pretty much standing with only one leg in the story and somewhere else with the other.
The third story is a kind of modern fairy tale retelling with a hard-working An who likes helping people and Haroumi, who is a rich son of a business owner. Spoilers, there is a waltz involved. The point of the story is that Haroumi, who runs away and finds shelter at An and her father's place learns humility and finds out why An likes to help people.
Yuzuko and Mogami are dating but it is not going good. They go out on a trip into the mountains but they get stuck out in the mountain in a blizzard. Under this stay, they get closer to each other. This is a good story.
✖✖✖✖✖✖✖✖✖✖✖✖
I hadn't really realized that this is an anthology when I had started reading it, I just saw that it was short. "Gokko" is a simple one-volume manga created by Sakurakouji Kanoko.
Story one is decent if a little bit concerning not being that clear in what happened. While story two is a big confusion. [Spoiler: I hadn't realized at what point did Minakami and Hana started dating, however the fact that Hana went from kind of being scared from Minakami then liking him is well done. Minakami is a kind person with a cold demeanor.] The third story is maybe worse than the previous one, it is cute and fine until you reach the end of the one-shot. The conflict is strange and almost nonsensical. It made me angry because up until that point, it was fine and good. [Spoiler: I think that the father had disappeared just to give An a reason to go to the waltz?] With the fourth story, I have no problem, it is a pretty middle of the road story and ends how you would expect.
In my opinion, first story is best, then fourth, then third and then the second. However, the stories are bland and just feeling okay. I felt like I wasted my time with this and that is not a good feeling.
The art is not my style and the character looks a little bit too similar to each other and has this run of the mill shoujo style, which is fine but I think that it can have more personality than that. The background is simplistic too.
The characters are not really important, I know that in romance the characters take a back seat, but they are not interesting, and I don't think that the shortness of the stories could have been a problem with this.
SCORE: 3/10
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