MeruPuri

Meru Puri is a love story about Aram and Airi. Airi meets Aram when he comes out of het mirror^^heh. The arts are beautiful, the story is sweet And exiting, because Airi is a heroine. Aram is the kind of boy all girls want to have. if you like shoujo and fantasy, you really have to read this manga! Sometimes it is a little pervert, but it is really funny. My favourite manga! Airi walks to school one morning and loses her mirror. Suddenly a boy comes out of the mirror! A strange boy, who gets bigger in the dark and can only shrink when kissed byhis beloved. (Un?)fortunately he chose Airi as his beloved, so she has to kiss him, otherwise he will stay big forever. It is the start of a romantic relation with some troubles...Aram, the boy, is a prince from a magical kingdom and has a fiancee.

I'm going to try and keep this sweet and simple. Reading this story, I had no expectations. The story was alright. Knowing this was shoujo, I tried to think optimistically throughout the story and not get annoyed to a point I wanted to stop. The story was very predictable, and then again I say to myself-it's a shoujo. A 4 or 7 year old of course doesn't act as mature as Aram acted most of the time. I got confused about their ages especially. I'm going to guess that they're three years apart, even though the ages keep changing throughout the story. The only part Isignificantly enjoyed were the parts were Aram's reactions to his favorite anime, the Rangers. The art was beautifully drawn, although I compliment all art. The characters, once again, were unrealistic and in the back of my mind I couldn't image a seven year old being that committed to one woman. Let alone, think about women at that age. Airi annoyed be a bit, but she did have a bit of a backbone-so props for her. In my opinion, overall, I would only read this if I was really bored. The story was absolutely cute in the beginning, but it just didn't workout for me in the end.

This was one of the first mangas I've read of Matsuri Hino when I was 13 (apart from Vampire Knight) and, at the time, it made it into my top "best mangas I've ever read". Now that I am 21 years old, I can see all the problematic stuff this manga has (the fact that Aram IS STILL A KID, even though his appearance says otherwise), or all the misogyny that is showed from characters such as Jeile or Razalude (even though it's showed with "humoristic purposes"). But being aware of those aspects does not mean that I did not enjoy rereading it, nostalgia factor involved.It is a good shoujo manga? Well, yes. The romance is showed beautifully, with an art that has a strong fairy-tale aesthetic. But, does it shows a healthy relationship? More or less. This is a manga from the 2000's, and healthy romance was not the norm back then. So, would I recommend MeruPuri? Yes, if you keep in mind the toxic aspects, like the fact that Aram is a 7 year old kid that falls in love with a 17 year old teenager.