Purikyuu

Vol: 1; Ch: 5
2005
3.695 out of 5 from 545 votes
Rank #18,734
Purikyuu

Katsuragi Anna is a former ballerina who tries to find herself when her dreams of ballet stardom fall flat. She is tricked into joining the archery club by her friend... only to find that the president is her childhood rival, Jinnai!?

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nathandouglasdavis
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Anna is vain and a bit haughty when it comes to feir excellence, but fe is also the type of put in great amounts of work in order to achieve such "genius" levels of excellence. Fe used to be a ballerina, but has now taken up archery as the new thing which fe will devote energy towards. The archery club president is Anna's childhood friend Jinnai, nicknamed the "Blue Demon," who is a bit of a tsundere and is strict and harsh, even resorting to physical violence, with those in the archery club. There are a few other friends, like Takashi and Saeko, who are often around in the periphery, but they aren't horribly relevant. The middle chapters each include a different potential love rival--first a male love rival, then a female love rival, then another male love rival. In the first chapter, I felt like there were too many monologues and reflections and stuff, but they either decreased or I just got used to it over the course of the series. I learned a tiny bit more about archery than what I had known, but this series largely just consists of the two main personalities clashing before coming to accept that they like each other. The thin spikes of hair are something that I've seen most frequently in shoujo manga such as this one, and I know that this particular artist is drawn to drawing hair in this way. The detailed, close-up shots of the characters are attractive, but far too many of the images are contortions for chibi "cuteness" or humorous effect. An oft-used technique involves drawing white space between horizontal lines for the simplified eyes and then stretching out the mouth. The stretched mouth usually has a curled upper lip and then lengthy lower lip lines, that often extend past the chin, creating either a triangular shape (akin to a cursor or an Asteroids ship) or a squarish shape (akin to a silo). The shading is grainy and includes some of that shoujo light refracting wispiness. I don't care for the way the bruises and bloodied hands look--it's like the artist just lazily splotched ink down and didn't bother to try to replicate proper texture.

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