Ai Yori Aoshi Vol. 4

Ai yori aoshi #4

by Kou Fumizuki

Against her family's wishes, Aoi Sakuraba decides to marry Kaoru Hanabishi, her love of eighteen years, and they face many obstacles with their families.

Genres: Manga, Romance, Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Seinen, Comedy

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Kou Fumizuki (文月 晃 Fumizuki Kō?, born 8 March in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. Fumizuki's most famous work to date is Ai Yori Aoshi,[1] a 17-volume work which has been turned into an anime series. His current work is Umi no Misaki, serialized in Young Animal Magazine starting in the fifth issue of 2007. Both of these seinen manga series are harem-type romance comedies in which a naive young man finds himself surrounded by pretty girls vying for his attention.

Reviews

[Fanelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mayu annoys me.

[Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it so much more to the story than the anime!

[Peter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Let me just start by saying that I really like the broad plot of the series, and I love watching the relationship between Kaoru and Aoi develop. However, this volume suffers horribly from being in the serial that it was originally published in. Young Animal's demographic seems to have had demands that unreasonably forced unnecessary and even idiotic single-dimension characters into the series. In this case, it comes in the form of an awfully thought-out new character who exists more as a plot device than as a human. Meanwhile, in another decision that seems to be a product of the marketing demographic being seinen by nature of being in Young Animal, important conversations and plot connectors are set unreasonably in settings lending themselves to fanservice. All in all, I didn't like this volume. It had some wonderful moments of tender romance, but most of this volume felt like filler intended to stretch the series rather than enhance or further it.

[Kaisa Mettille · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was cute and is a light read