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doctorfeddy's review against another edition
3.0
La cosa che mi colpisce di questo manga è il disegno, molto diverso da altri Shojo , la protagonista molto macchiettistica da un lato e dolce e timida dall'altro. Il coprotagonista spregiudicato e dongiovanni che cercherà in tutti i modi di conquistare il cuore della ragazza che, dal canto suo, sfrutta il coprotagonista come cavia per esperimenti "amorosi". Come primo volume mi ha divertito
readingrobyn's review against another edition
2.0
I don't understand what this manga was going for. Missions of Love is a strange manga, not so much because of its content or characters who are all reiterations of tropes we have seen before, but because of its tone. The tone of this book feels all wrong.
The premise is really simple. There's this "icy" misunderstood girl who everyone is afraid of, this is our classic protagonist. In her spare time she writes cell phone novels, I would call them ficlets or drabbles, and she wants to up her game by adding more romance to her stories. Only problem is, she's never experienced love or crushes so she has no idea how to write about them. Jump forward and she ends up blackmailing the most popular boy in school, who is secretly an asshole, into secretly role playing with her things people do when they are in love. It's strangely intimate and awkward, but throughout it all I could not get over how sexless it was. The build up, the strange conversations, this is not something people do in order to figure out what it feels like to hold someone else's hand PG style. This is what they do when they want to figure out something kinky(or maybe I just lack the innocence to find that believable and have a terribly dirty mind).
I kind of figured that the direction this would take would be her having him pretending to be her boyfriend, but that isn't really the deal. She just orders him to do things at random and then we get to see the awkwardness of her commands. The whole thing is super sketchy.
Also, I'm not sure how I feel about the cousin love triangle thing they are obviously setting up. I mean, he's her cousin. That can't be kosher....? Someone would need to explain to me why this isn't weird because the book has not clarified anything on that matter and I'm getting the creeps.
All in all, I'm going to keep reading. A) because the art is very pretty and B) because I've done that thing again where the library had a bunch of volumes on the shelf so I also picked up volumes 2 and 3. I might as well keep reading at this point!
The premise is really simple. There's this "icy" misunderstood girl who everyone is afraid of, this is our classic protagonist. In her spare time she writes cell phone novels, I would call them ficlets or drabbles, and she wants to up her game by adding more romance to her stories. Only problem is, she's never experienced love or crushes so she has no idea how to write about them. Jump forward and she ends up blackmailing the most popular boy in school, who is secretly an asshole, into secretly role playing with her things people do when they are in love. It's strangely intimate and awkward, but throughout it all I could not get over how sexless it was. The build up, the strange conversations, this is not something people do in order to figure out what it feels like to hold someone else's hand PG style. This is what they do when they want to figure out something kinky(or maybe I just lack the innocence to find that believable and have a terribly dirty mind).
I kind of figured that the direction this would take would be her having him pretending to be her boyfriend, but that isn't really the deal. She just orders him to do things at random and then we get to see the awkwardness of her commands. The whole thing is super sketchy.
Also, I'm not sure how I feel about the cousin love triangle thing they are obviously setting up. I mean, he's her cousin. That can't be kosher....? Someone would need to explain to me why this isn't weird because the book has not clarified anything on that matter and I'm getting the creeps.
All in all, I'm going to keep reading. A) because the art is very pretty and B) because I've done that thing again where the library had a bunch of volumes on the shelf so I also picked up volumes 2 and 3. I might as well keep reading at this point!
narteest's review against another edition
4.0
This is one hot manga. Seriously, the chemistry between the demanding cell-phone-novelist-in-secret Yukina and the popular womanizer Shigure is electric! Even though this story begins with Yukina needing a guinea pig for her 'love experiment' - understanding what love is so she can write about it, the distance between the blackmailer (Yukina who discovers Shigure's secret as a womanizer) and the balackmailee shortens! I'm intrigued by this mass of tangled loves.
bunny_herondale's review against another edition
3.0
Me enganchó lo suficiente como para leer más.
Himuro es una chica que es conocida por tener una gélida mirada y un tacto frío y todos se ponen nerviosos cuando ella les dirige la mirada, la única persona que no se pone nerviosa a su alrededor y que la trata con aprecio es su primo, Akira, quien también conoce el secreto de Himuro, ella es una escritora de novelas para celular (algo tipo Wattpad, por lo que vi), un día, Himuro escucha a unas chicas de su escuela hablar sobre su novela y mencionan que les gustaría que hubiera más amor, y así es como se topa con Kitami, el chico más popular de la escuela y a quien piensa sobornar para experimentar el amor y plasmarlo en su novela, a pesar de que los dos se detesten.
Siento que este volumen es demasiado introductorio y por lo mismo no puedo ponerle mejor calificación, no me encantó, pero sí me gustó lo suficiente la hustoria y los personajes como para querer seguir leyendo este manga y saber cómo van a terminar los constantes sobornos entre los protagonistas.
Himuro es una chica que es conocida por tener una gélida mirada y un tacto frío y todos se ponen nerviosos cuando ella les dirige la mirada, la única persona que no se pone nerviosa a su alrededor y que la trata con aprecio es su primo, Akira, quien también conoce el secreto de Himuro, ella es una escritora de novelas para celular (algo tipo Wattpad, por lo que vi), un día, Himuro escucha a unas chicas de su escuela hablar sobre su novela y mencionan que les gustaría que hubiera más amor, y así es como se topa con Kitami, el chico más popular de la escuela y a quien piensa sobornar para experimentar el amor y plasmarlo en su novela, a pesar de que los dos se detesten.
Siento que este volumen es demasiado introductorio y por lo mismo no puedo ponerle mejor calificación, no me encantó, pero sí me gustó lo suficiente la hustoria y los personajes como para querer seguir leyendo este manga y saber cómo van a terminar los constantes sobornos entre los protagonistas.
_moonniji_'s review against another edition
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75