Kiss

This is pretty neat shoujo considering it’s published in 1996….It doesn’t feel so during the start however as the chapters progress so does the art….I mean that was one of the reasons that was putting me off for so long from reading this but now that I read it I’m glad I did….and you should too! Like tomo sensei’s other works the leads were oozing off with charisma. The plot is pretty nice too, nothing much is going on but everyone is likeable….the uncle was kinda annoying but well he was just doing playing role so yeah…. Giving this an 8 because the romance part wasa bit off like things just happened there wasn’t any development leading to the romance as such like they just become a couple….(plus y’know she’s 16 and he’s 24 so what do you really expect, it’s just the I’ll wait for you until you grow up and typical stuff like that so you just see them kiss at the most, as the title suggests too Lol). I’d say it was nice overall….Plus I guess the mangaka got inspiration from Hollywood movies of 1980’s-90’s because idk, the characters and their dressing sense and even behaviour etc really remind you of that. Ohh and the panels of ml playing the piano was really well made, like even if you can’t hear what he was playing it still sounded exceptional….haha if that makes any sense?

Great music talent. But wasted in an asshole MC and a disjointed way of story telling. Kiss a shoujo romance series. About a 15 year old girl who has been learning music for about 10 years with her piano teacher who is 22. In the very first chapter the main heroine actually confesses and the MMC and FMC start dating. The story continues dealing with the issues of their age gap as well as past events that they keep bringing up. This series to me is just a set of wasted potential. It has good bright moments but its just swallowed in this sea of blandand shoujo asshole-ism. I enjoyed the kiss scenes in this series. I enjoyed the piano playing in this series. But i did not like the romance between the main couple. It felt incredibly manipulative. It not just her age he is constantly pushing and pulling her and his entire vibe is just this "I hate you". He was unlikable and pretty stayed that way. He constantly acted cold and repeatedly hurting the FMC. Though some of his anger and harshness was understandable at times. It still didn't excuse his horrible behaviour. But my main problem with the series are not the uninteresting characters but rather the disjointed way of story telling. The series basically starts at we are a couple now and then the plot takes a backseat to give this explanation of all these characters including how the main character fell in love as well. If the author was going to drop this piece of information in it would've been so much better if the story was just told in chronological order. They're also many stories about side characters and their past and cannot give 2 shits about them. The stopping the plot to show this backstory of these characters have been done before and most of them suck. They are flashback stories out their that are enjoyable but their hasn't been once were i didn't like when they showed up. Not knowing the future, being uncertain about it, to me has always been a better way to tell the series. There is a bunch of other shit in the series but i don't really care about it. I literally forgot one of the heroines in the series until i started typing this. I remember none of the characters names the only decent thing was the piano playing which i do think was good. Not incredible but was fun when it happened. I've seen people be glad that the main couple is formed early one but is the point if the most of the story is just flashbacks and other people? They are literally 100's of stories where the main heroines and main hero get together in the beginning or in the middle. Some of them also suck and this is one of them. TLDR: Asshole characters, Disjointed storytelling but nice kiss scenes and piano playing. To bad most of this was just asshole characters and disjointed storytelling. 3/10