Title: KouKou Debut

Author & Artist: Kawahara Kazune

Chapters: 1-52 (completed)

Note from Jules: Moepeep is younger than Windy and I. So if you heavily disagree with her review, please keep her age in mind.

Summary:
This is a story about a girl named Haruna Nagashima. In middle school she loved playing softball (while she practically looks like a guy). After practice she would read Shoujo manga. This started a reaction that made her… want a boyfriend in high school! This is when she meets the fabulous and attractive Yoh Komiyama! Thinking to make her high school life better she enlists his help in making herself more attractive in order to get a boyfriend.

Hair:
Well, to me the hair on the character Mami, well actually almost all the hair make them all look like boys. If they didn’t tell us names and genders it’s almost too hard to figure out what they are. Other than that I’d like to say that the hair was pretty good.

Eyes:
The eyes were very well drawn. But, once again I have to point out that they are not that different when it comes to telling the gender.  When you read anime you will notice, hopefully, that when eyes are drawn for boys instead of a circular kind of eye (aka girl eyes), it’s more of a square. But, some of the girls, *cough* Mami-chan *cough* have the same rectangular look of an eye that a boy has. It’s really bothersome to me and sometimes I think that this manga is designed to make the girls look like boys.

Clothes:
In my opinion, I think the clothes that the main character, Haruna, wore were a little strange. She was supposedly picking them from fashion magazines and what-not, but what magazines was she looking at? Ones for crazy eccentric people? As for the other characters, the clothes that Kawahara (the author/artist) illustrated for them was very good.

Face:
In KouKou Debut the shape of the faces were drawn around the same all across the board. Boys and girls alike share the same face shape. Still adding more to the difficulty of telling who’s who and what’s what. You would think that they would learn to make it look different, but hey it’s a fun guessing game right? At least the shape of the face looks better than the usual egg-shaped head that seems to be coming more popular.

Emotions:
The emotions were a very big part in this comic as in any comic. I mean if they weren’t we’d just be looking at a lot of boring pictures. When they cry instead of squiggly lines for tears they used huge crocodile tears. And when they’re mad their eyes go blank and their whole body turns white with bold black outlines. Just to show you how very pissed they are. When they are surprised their bodies turns white (well technically it’s all in black and white…) like when they’re mad, but their hair stands up instead.

*Spoiler* *-*
Who ends up with Who?:
Of course Haruna and Yoh eventually end up together. Usually in most comics the two main characters always get together… Well, at least sometimes… Unlike Vampire Knight. -_-

Overall:
Overall I’d recommend this to girl beginners, because I can’t see a guy picking this off a shelf. For girls it’s a nice simple manga that makes them want to read more mangas. I give this manga four point five stars out of five!

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Characters:
Haruna Nagashima
Yoh Komiyama
Asami Komiyama
Fumiya Tamura
Yui  Asaoka
Mami Takahashi