Kyrie
I was going to try to get through the first volumes of a bunch of manga series I'd been meaning to start tonight...but I think I'm going to end up binge reading Horimiya instead.
The story takes a “don't judge a book by its cover” approach to the main characters. It's a lot of fun to watch Hori and Miyamura trying to figure out how to juggle the knowledge of each others' secrets against the facades they put up at school. And that, so far, seems to be the main drama of the series - no love triangles. No crazy stalkers. Just two teenagers trying to find a way to interact in a public space without letting other people know what they're really like.
It's not even a situation like Switch Girl, where their personalities are all that different from how they actually are. The secrets that the main characters are trying to hide aren't exaggerated. And they've got believable reasons for hiding.
It was...refreshing.
And that artwork. Man.
I was going to try to get through the first volumes of a bunch of manga series I'd been meaning to start tonight...but I think I'm going to end up binge reading Horimiya instead.
The story takes a “don't judge a book by its cover” approach to the main characters. It's a lot of fun to watch Hori and Miyamura trying to figure out how to juggle the knowledge of each others' secrets against the facades they put up at school. And that, so far, seems to be the main drama of the series - no love triangles. No crazy stalkers. Just two teenagers trying to find a way to interact in a public space without letting other people know what they're really like.
It's not even a situation like Switch Girl, where their personalities are all that different from how they actually are. The secrets that the main characters are trying to hide aren't exaggerated. And they've got believable reasons for hiding.
It was...refreshing.
And that artwork. Man.