Rainbow Days

I read the whole manga today (slow day at work, hah) and overall, it was a good read. But, it didn't live up to my expectations. One of its strongest points is that it fleshes out our main 4 dudes, where in many other romance anime/manga the relationship of the mains take over and the characters remain undeveloped, and we even got 4 love interests for each of them! But.... Just because we got potential love interests doesn't make the manga immediately good. Seems like they went very hard on the main 4 dudes stories and development, the romance was actually forgotten behind. Throughout the manga it makes youfeel as though the romance and relationships between the guys and girls are what's important, but at the end of the day it was very lacking. So many chapters where we didn't even see our mains Anna and Natsuki, let alone seeing Anna at all. We might've gotten a lot of development of the main male characters, and a bit of Nozomi and Mari but I feel like Yukirin and especially Anna were left out from the development cycle. Which kinda sucks. The characters were nice as a cast, they interacted well with each other and I think it made a very nice chemistry between all of them. The story in itself wasn't really anything interesting, a pretty generic school romance. Overall I will say- If you're looking for a hard romance, this is a tricky one, because it makes you feel like it is, but it isn't. If you're looking for a lighter romance with "Friendship power", this is a good manga to read.

Nijiiro Daya is highly recommended to read but I'll just just keep my review short and simple. Most would think at first glance that this might be BL because of these four handsome guys on the cover but no it isn't. In fact, nijiiro days is a typical slice of life story about boys in high school and of course their funny love experiences and dilemmas in school. The plot is pretty generic like any slice of life and shoujo manga you read. However, you'll be fascinated by the characters in the manga which is the best thing here. You'll gonna love their personalities and interactions soas their friendship. And if you're into romcom genre, then this will surely give you satisfaction and it's a multi-pairing as well!! You won't find this hard to read since the art is certainly pleasing to the eyes especially when you see the characters if you know what I mean. The manga has ended and I did not regret on reading this. Again, Nijiiro Days is highly recommended to read and certainly, you won't regret it as well when you read this.

I'm a huge shojo disliker. I try to avoid the genre whenever I can because I can't stand the atmosphere, the art and the messy, suffocating paneling. So when I started Rainbow Days I was skeptical. And while a lot of the flaws I hate about the genre are still here, I have to admit... it is fun. The core concept is what makes it work. It's not about one guy or a girl; it's about four high school guys with completely different personalities, all navigating their own messy love lives. It's a unique setup that immediately sets it apart. The story follows all four ofthem, and surprisingly, it does a great job of fleshing out each romance without making any of them feel like a side plot. You get invested in everyone's story. Some of the relationships are genuinely great. Natsuki and Anna's romance is the standout; it's sweet, wholesome, and the main reason I kept reading. The slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers dynamic between the playboy Tomoya and the man-hating Mari also grew on me heavily; they're adorable by the end. Even the stable, drama-free relationship between Tsuyoshi and his girlfriend Yukiko is a nice, calming presence in the story. But holy shit, some parts of this manga are just bad. The romance between the sadist Keiichi and his best friend's younger sister, Nozomi, is one of the worst couplings I've seen in a romance. At times it's just weird and it feels like a self-insert of some weird fetish that belongs in a cringe Wattpad story. The dynamic where he turns her down for his own amusement and she just gets more into it is so fucking awful. It gets more tolerable later and DEFINITELY improves, but it still feels a bit out of place. And at its core, it's still a shojo manga. It has the frustrating drama, like a rival showing up just to push the plot, or a character getting amnesia after a kiss. It's also a slice-of-life story, which isn't my thing; a lot of chapters feel like they don't serve a purpose. There was even a whole out-of-place plot about Natsuki getting possessed by a ghost. It's just weird shojo stuff that I'll never get. In the end, Rainbow Days was a fun, easy read that I enjoyed way more than I thought I would. It didn't make me a shojo fan, not at all, but I appreciate what it did. It's a 7/10. If you can look past some very questionable writing choices and the typical genre flaws, it’s a unique manga for its focus on four different, well-developed romances.

The manga has a great start and a pleasant development. However, in my opinion, it falls a lot from the mid to end of the story. For a story that has romance as its central theme, it suffers from the same problem that we see in many other series categorized under that genre: It basically stops following the relationship when the characters get together. This manga especially chooses to change entirely the focus on the last chapters to high schoolers' problems instead of developing the new-formed relationships (that btw took longer than needed to be established). The extra chapters make up only a tiny bit forit. (if they weren't there, it would be truly preposterous, how can you end your plot like that???) Despite that, it still was worth some good laughs and heartwarming moments. Given that, if you like to see the later parts of a romance not only the lead-up and confession, you will probably be disappointed with this one.