C'est moins bien dessiné que la série originale, l'histoire est classique ( un mélange entre les 3 royaumes et l'ère sengolu du Japon ), les persos sont pas spécialement ratés en revanche. Par contre c'est quoi le délire dans le chapitre 5 du mec qui couche avec une raie manta ? C'est un peu pathétique comme moyen de rendre un personnage original, c'est pas parce que personne ne o'a fait avant que c'est forcément une bonne idée, parfois c'est même un indice sur oa qualité de l'idée. Bref il y a mieux à lire comme série, largement.
While I’m at it, just gonna say that the character work is poor, too generic, too shounen ; very much lacking in depth and complexity. Everyone is too gang-ho, too happy-go-lucky. The MC whose mother died in the war? Doesn’t seem to have affected her much. The other kids? Just happy and excited to go to war somehow, one is silent soft androgynous, the other obsessed with girls, one silent and cool and the other angry and boisterous. They are pretty much manga archetypes who don’t go far beyond that…
This was great. I was missing the Akame Ga Kill series and this was just as great. i can tell by just this one volume that this manga is going to be just as awesome as the last one (kind of hope its not as sad lol)
Goodreads winner. I could not get into this story. I'm not usually a huge manga fan, but I thought this one sounded interesting so I gave it a shot. I just couldn't get into the story. It was very disjointed.
Non ho molto da dire su questo primo volume. Al momento è abbastanza piatto, poca innovazione. Della serie Akame GA Kill ci sono pochi riferimenti a parte Akame, appunto. Disegni che trovo molto meno curati rispetto alle due altre opere precedenti.
Should have realized it from the cover, but Akame is here too! I'm going to enjoy learning more about this new country!
Restarting this since it is coming out very slowly! I love the fact that Akame is in this, and I love Hinowa and her friends, the way she checks on all of them is just great! The action is well done too, and a good balance of world building to that. I'm ready for more!
Bring on the bloody, bring on the gore, bring on the ultimate of action Manga. Hinowa ga Crush! by Takahiro brings all that plus a girl's dream to follow in her mother's footsteps. I've seen gory Anime's before but I had yet to read one. So this Manga marks the first with me, and not the last.
If you're not into women warriors and war themes, this might not be the Manga for you. Honestly, if it didn't have a female protagonist I'm not sure I would have liked it. Despite the often over sexualization of female characters in Manga and Anime alike, which Hinowa ga Crush! is also guilty of, there's something that draws me to these types of stories anyway.
Volume one begins with the world building. A somewhat mysterious women captain on a war ship hell bent on winning a battle in a world divided by nations. A long drawn out Civil War presents the opportunity for those who want to make a name for themselves and becoming a hero is what one strives for. (Most of these fighters are young adults).
Big battle and death abound and fast forward to the next section and a girl who looks exactly like the previous one causes slight confusion (for me). But soon it's all explained. Hinowa adopts the name of her mother and strives to become just like her and move up the ranks in the military. She, along with her friends from her village train and sign up for the next battle.
It's all slightly fast paced and the introduction of Akame raises more questions. Further research into this series, I found that Akame has her own series and I totally missed the opportunity to care about her character. However, I could still read this series and enjoy it, because it's also about Hinowa. If I had to sum up this volume or give it an overall theme it would be: Mystery. Obviously, not all questions are answered here, but if I had known that Akame was an assassin (based on her own series which came before this.), I might have been more excited.
While it got me interested in the overall theme, I'm not sure if I'm 100% invested in this series yet. Curious, yes, but I haven't been endeared to any of the characters.
The art, illustrated by Strelka, is pleasant to look at and a little different than what I'm used to. It's a slightly more serious art style than the usual Kawaii style that I enjoy.