Title: Dear School Gang Leader
Author & Artist: Fujikata Mayu
Chapters: 1-10 (Ongoing)
Summary:
Due to family problems, Hirayama Hayaka transfers from a private high school to a public high school. But, as she enters her new school, she finds out that there are 850 boys enrolled, and she is the only girl around (no pressure there). She also finds out that gangsters still exist in this era (she has been living under a rock). When she begins school, a fight erupts between her classmate Katou Yuuni and some gangsters. And so begins Hayaka’s eventful life in public high school…
Special Note: I, Jules, apologize for Windy’s lazy rehashing summary.
The Good
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I love this manga because it’s my kind of genre. Comedic. There were also some other good points that I would like to point out. The artwork really reminded me of a similar manga I had read a while back. It took five minutes before I realized that it looked similar to Fruits Basket. As I read on I realized that it wasn’t the exact same, but I gave it some credit.
Story:
The title and summary really had me intrigued from the get-go. I would have to say that the plot is very interesting. I don’t want to give any of the story away, but it is sort of like Fruits Basket in that there are a bunch of boys who revolve around this one girl. She’s got nothing good going on for her in the beginning until she makes friends with the boys. The flow of the manga was like a regular manga. Your eyes was pulled to the right frames at the right times. The dialogue was freaking hilarious. “They’re gangsters so why do they still go to school on time?” Hehehe. If you don’t get it yet, you will. When you read the first chapter of the manga you really get a sense of the background story. You pretty much understand what she gets when she comes to school. It just has that kind of rep.
Characters:
At the beginning it does explain some of the one of main characters background. Hayaka’s family life is troubled and it makes her move to a different home with a different school. The personality for Katou is really different. He’s like a person who’s rough, but somehow you get some motherly kindness out of him. It’s so. . . refreshing. I do like how the characters change. Realizing that the boys are girl crazy (there’s only one girl), I saw that they probably weren’t going to become different people. But, the main characters Hayaka and Katou change the way they feel. For Hayaka it’s the way she feels about the school. Katou is the way he feels about Hayaka.
The Bad
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The proportions were so off in this comic. It looked like the artist had either been blind when he learned how to draw or this manga was done in the dark. Either way they were awful. I was disappointed in this manga because of how it looked. I mean it didn’t have a touch of realism in it. It looked like something I could have drawn (I am improving though).
Story:
Since this manga is not yet completed I expected to read some more of this. But it seems to have ended at only chapter ten. When I say that I mean that I haven’t seen a new chapter in two months. It’s very vexing when you actually really like the manga, but you don’t get to read all of it. <_>
Characters:
I really did not like how long you had to wait to find out about Katou’s background. He’s everywhere in the manga and you are kept in the dark for six chapters. And there’s only ten. When it comes to personality I have seen the one in Hayaka in almost every manga with a girl heroine. She can’t do anything and she’s nervous around guys. I want to see a strong girl for once.
The General
This is a pretty good manga for anyone not just those beginning to read it. I’m really into it and I’ve been reading this kind of stuff for a while. For the author I would like to say well done. I rate this a four…out of five.
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Character Names:
Main: Hirayama Hayaka
Katou Yuuni
Side: Wata Seshun
Ebihararei Ichiro
Maeda Mirai
