Hime 100%

Yakoz Apr 1, 2017

4

Impossible! It's not possible! How could an expert driver have an incident and die? HOW? Apparently Hime is new to the world and doesn't know stuff like this happens. Police confirms it's an accident but she keeps saying no. It must be a homicide. This is why Hime decides to find clues by herself and discover the truth behind her father's death. Plus/minus considerations: STORY: as you can read from my preview, this non-sense starts with the doubts of our MC, Hime, who's not going to accept the death of her father, an expert driver, due to a simple accident. Only in a movie or a comic something like this could happen and, oh well, this is a manga.. The impersonification of Tomb Raider finally finds clues: that means we're ready to start! We have a mystery, boys and girls: it might be a bad one, but we do have it. Another bad thing for me is how all the students in the school have zero sympathy and interest in their classmates who're dying one after another. What kind of place is Japan? Aren't you scared for your life? "Oh, this person died. It must be X" and they continue the conversation like nothing happened.. come on, man. Although the script is not good, I found the manga itself is enjoyable (not in positive, but still) and I appreciate the effort of the mangaka, trying to work with a terrible base. Also that ending, sheesh! I didn't expect that coming. (-) ART: classic '80s shoujo's art style. Really thin bodies, classic enormous eyes and same usual haircut. The main character looks like a sailor ffs.. I do not like characters' expressions, I couldn't even take seriously some of them and laughed despite them being really sad or hurt in certain moments of the story. (--) CHARACTERS: I don't like how apathetic the whole school is, Hime in primis, knowing that students are dying left and right. She goes nuts after her father dies in that car accident and, even after that moody 180° in front of the police that made me thing "this girl is a psycho", she couldn't care less for her classmates. But she is coldblooded, she can't stop there: she needs to know who killed her father! (bah..). The other characters are slightly better, maybe because they don't appear nearly as much. Shusei and Katsuage are good characters, they can use their brain at least. Even the antagonist was not the greatest of the evils. I guess we can appreciate the fact that there was an antagonist. (--) If I recommend this manga, it's not for the quality. Characters sometimes react so poorly that you laugh and have a good time. I didn't like the story, although I  was interested in the ending: that's just the way I am with every mystery on Earth. Not recommended if you're looking for a good manga, plenty of better stuff out there.