Barairo no Hoho no Koro

ばら色の頬のころ

7.30(2K votes)

Ranked #5331Popularity #5948

chapters

volumes

Status

Finished

Published

May 3, 2006 to Jan 10, 2007

Authors:Nakamura, Asumiko

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Worth Reading? — Global Verdict

5.3/10

Average Review Score

25%

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International Reviews

bakababe

Recommended

Pity that there has yet to be a review...don't mind if i do. Nakamura-San can really summon up some of the darkest facets of life and drag you right in and this manga is no exception. I particularly enjoyed this manga of hers because of the way she elicits drama out of her characters. The relationships constantly alter throughout this manga and uncertainty lingers page after page. The dramatic style of her writing complements her impeccable line-work, drawing out every ounce of emotion she can from each character so you can not only feel their pain through the story but you can see it writtenall over their face. (how many puns did I just unintentionally crank out?) I enjoyed Morgan as a character, I feel that his father being the head of the school adds a little twist to help display how little he cares about the world around him and aids the reader to show the progression of him beginning to care about Paul and his own struggles. Paul is clearly a cold character up until the reveal when he reads his fathers old letters, so I enjoy that we see various sides to her characters. Artistically, Nakamura-sans work was very unusual to me and I did not enjoy many of her faces, but as you continue to read her works you realize everything in undeniably intentional. Of course in manga we love to see the perfect elegant "pretty" tears from glossy eyed characters but in Nakamura-sans case she gives us the raw unleashed emotions and disheveled characters scrambling to keep their lives and wits together. Factors I was not so pleased about was actually the fact that it took so long in this manga to reveal a large plot point, about the letters that were sent to Paul from his father, it took a while to get to and then progressed too quickly for me to digest how the drama built so quickly, but thats a Nakamura charm and although you may read her work and not like how it made you feel by the end, I believe she intended that and you are left thinking about it for quite some time after you read.

Community Discussion

Marianahadassa12

Mixed Feelings

I don't have the words for it, I don't read much manga, but this was one of the first ones and it ended up disappointing me. The beginning was promising and suddenly the "bomb" broke down terribly. What a disappointment, what a bad romance. I don't recommend anyone to read it, but if you want to see what this experience really is like, it's only 6 chapters. The art is incredibly wonderful, perfect. Synopsis: Paul, a serious honor student, meets the violent and rebellious Morgan in their all-boys school. What follows is a story of the struggles of youth and painful but powerful self-discovery. This is a prequelto the series J no Subete, involving Paul and another boy named "J."

3 found helpfulDec 14, 2021

Sorvarin

Not Recommended

Spoilers free. In short: don't read this manga. It's horrible. Why? I keep asking myself that too! Why does it exist? The famous art style doesn't help the situation. With Nakamura Asumiko's name you read the manga expecting good things to happen but they don't. Instead, silly and unreasonable things keep piling up. What to expect from this manga: good art style, unreasonable characters and ridiculous situations, whoring shown in a good light, pedophilia shown in a good light, suicide taken lightly, stupid things said about the holocaust. A bit too much for only six chapters... But it was supposed to be all serious and dramatic anddeep, eh, Nakamura Asumiko-san? It was published as a prequel to J no Subete three years after JnS was. Makes you think...

4 found helpfulMay 3, 2016

Angelo_McGee

Not Recommended

Honestly, the art of this manga is very pretty, and at first (at first, okay?) I got quite involved with the characters. With chapters going by, however, things became increasingly dramatic and difficult to deal with. So far so good. Drama is cool (depending on the context). But the ending was simply pathetic. The focus of the story was the relationship between the protagonists, but it totally went out of the subject by entering another character that had nothing to do with anything. I do not recommend it to anyone, and I do not understand why the note in My Anime List is so high.I would say it was a complete waste of time to have read this.

3 found helpfulSep 24, 2018