Hiyori seriously gets annoying after a while. All she does is cry and people jump to the rescue. She's super dense and oblivious and insecure and she never really gets stronger. Okay, she gets a little less wimpy, but that only reaches the point of where she'll stand up after crying...but only with cheering from her friends. Yuushin is pretty shallow as the male lead. He's the typical nice guy, but he's nice to the point of...not being very memorable.

Pretty much all the side characters felt like they have more emotional depth than the main couple.

I don't suppose any hot-blooded feminist who likes to imagine themselves as the main heroine would leave this alone if they decide to read it, since to them the girl would probably appear to be pathetic and frustrating to deal with (like why don't you just get up and do something ?). Small clumsy girl, that sort of thing probably appeals more to male readers, but hey, I'm no demographic expert.

There is nothing quite marvel or original about this series. The guy is good-natured and amiable to a fault. The girl is the poster child for 'moe mascot'. Seems like a world chock-full of good people, even the would-be love rival is beyond reproach. Someone was complaining that the background characters (especially the guys) were shallow. That complaint is so meta and applicable to so many anime series it's not even funny. Why do all the chicks fall for this one pathetic run-off-the-mill guy while other guys are all jealous ? Why is scoring with a girl all that high school boys seem to think of, do they lack other healthy pursuits ? Why are those who indeed have other pursuits (usually studying) portrayed as either that other boring guy in the class with no life that no one particularly cares about, or a godlike genius who seems to think intelligence equals being able to remember the name of Uzbekistan's capital city and computers equal screens of DNA strands and magical override key spamming ? And guess what, this does not just apply to fiction in Japan (hint hint).

I think someone else was complaining about scantily clad little girls and lolicon hentai here. Really, I kept my eyes peeled here and I don't recall one single instance a girl shows anything remotely resembling a cleavage. I hate the kind of woman you'd find somewhere in 'Sex and the City' about as much as you can imagine, and I don't see anyone showing off their skin here. I can't imagine what your reactions would be like if you watched hollywood movies these days. And the questionable incident you might be speaking of was

Story?... well, I suppose I don't care that much for the main leads, but the best friend and Kou are interesting to read about, but not bad. Overall, I'd say this is a nice manga to read on a slow day. Nothing more.

To me this is so BORING and more than a bit repetitive. i read this because of all the good reviews it seemed to have. I should have passed. It's not a bad manga if you like cliched shoujo (to the extreme) and reading the same thing chapter after chapter with the only difference being the situation. if it were a bit more face paced, I'd probably stick with it but I've read 7 volumes already and there's still very little progress. I know it a slow romance, i just didn't think it would be at a snail's pace. So once again not a bad manga if you like a slow progression and looking for a laid back manga; just don't expect many heart thumping suspenseful moments.

Ok that review won't help much since i am a guy and i read only until the 8th chapter and then dropped it.I am not into the shoujo genre at all but i read the 1st chapter by chance and i said what the hell let's give it a chance just in case it changes my whole viewpoint on them.Well it didn't.The only shoujo i have watched are some classic which have become animated like Lovely Complex,Yamato Nadeshiko,Kimi no Todoke,Paradise Kiss,Skip Beat and Fruits Basket and i can say that most were worthy of my time .This particular one is more similar to Kimi no Todoke meaning it hasn't got the "bad boy" character where the girl for no particular reason falls in love with him(if it had i wouldn't have begun reading in the first place).But it has all the other cliche all the other shoujo have example getting sick after a rainfall,popular boy and shy girl in the level of exaggeration,shallow back round characters(a side girl hooked up with another guy the day after another rejected her),valentine's day,and also the ridiculous comments of other guys towards the main protagonist like admitting that he is cool and that they are inferior(sorry but most of us guys are pretty egoistical so there is no chance that sth like this is even possible) etc...
If i was a girl and much younger i would rate it higher since it seems to at least try to become better than your average shoujo.(It may be a good alternative from Kimi no Todoke which in particular i also find having many flaws especially with the pace).I don't know, but that new trend with the shy girl in the level of muteness doesn't appeal to me much.It's one click above the wimpy male lead in shounen though.But adding on the shyness, the element of extreme naiveness(=stupidity) (which will probably become apparent on the later chapters if it follows the steps of KnT) you get a killer combo.

... Last updated on February 24th, 2011, 1:59am

If you're looking for something new, original, refreshing, or even slightly different, look elsewhere. It uses a bunch of popular tropes common in any other shoujo manga and can't even use them 5well. For example, there's the popular boy and unpopular girl cliché. Kimi ni Todoke uses it MUCH better, considering how we actually see how the romance between the two develops.
In this manga I honestly can't tell why he likes her aside from the fact that she pushes him to confront his troubled feelings for another girl. Does he like her because of the insane height difference and that it would be interesting to be seen with her? Because I think that's the only difference she has from all the other stock character girls that have liked him. His relationships with his childhood female friends (the tomboy and the pretty love rival) are ten times more interesting than the main plot! And one of those girls is a side character who is jokingly called a boy at times!! Why should I be interested or sympathetic with Hiyokoi if she's the most boring character of all That and she hides in a locker, unnecessarily cries a lot, is pretty clumsy and didn't really have any friends so he helped her gain some. Like how could someone popular , who has met tons of unique people be remotely interested in someone who has the personality of a rock? Like the entire romantic development between the two is where he sees her as a little chick, a BIRD. I.E. A PET. He's taking care of her as if she were a baby and he were a babysitter. He's done so much for her but she's barely done anything in return so I can't possibly see a reason for his attraction to her.
Honestly, the beginning of the manga was alright. There was an event in the first few chapters that were slightly different but then it just drags and drags on once her newness is gone and she gets accepted by the class. After that, the awkward boy comes and ughhhg it gets worse and annoying.
Basically, go ahead and read this if you're a huge shoujo fan, however don't expect much fluff bc the slightest bit of romance gets cast away (literally) the next day bc she gets too embarrassed EVEN WHEN THEY'RE DATING. However don't expect anything new at all from this manga. I've read 11 volumes and I can't think of a thing that is new and exciting so you are MUCH better off checking out some of the other popular shoujo that can actually pull of these clichés decently.

Pretty cliched, i hate it how many love rivals there are. I mean, it hardly seems like she likes him anyway because of how fast she fell in love with him. What happened to classic mangas where it takes more than five chapters to fall in love? Heck go for TEN chapters. It's ok, kill time manga. Generic shojo but its still pretty cute i guess, maybe i just need to lay off the love triangle scene ey?

... Last updated on January 28th, 2012, 4:54am

But then the story started pissing me off more and more. I originally read this because I was like "ooh! A story about a short girl like me!!" but it just really gets super boring and repetitive very, very quickly. Main character starts little by little to have more confidence, but of course, not when it matters the most. EVERYONE loves the lead character, which honestly, made me start to hate him because he was just so unrealistic. Also a story that focuses on everyone finding "their true love" as seen with the main character's friend being paired up with the guy who was suppose to be the love triangle (they didn't even reach the love triangle stage and already the author is setting him up to be with another character). Very unrealistic and boring "slice of life" there are so many other shoujos out that that cover this same topic much, much better.

This manga is best used as a source of laughter.

Apparently over in Japan girls who read manga have a height obsession as intense as Japanese otaku boys' big breast obsession. Thus it has become a convention in shoujo manga to have the boy be at least a head taller than the girl, and often skinny enough to blow over in a wind to boot.

In this case, though the boy is several heads taller than the girl. They look silly, almost grotesque, together, and I suspect tjat managing a kiss standing up would be a major contortion struggle for them. Conventions in popular fiction are hard to deviate from, and this mangaka didn't bother to here, when she set out to write a story about an extra-short, shy girl. That's fine, I guess, for the girl readers--although I bet even some of them are put off by the sheer unliklihood of such a coupling.

As for boy and men readers, since very few of us are several heads taller than the girls around us (especially in Japan!), the vast height difference between the boy and girl in this manga makes it too hard to identify with the main guy in this story, and too easy to laugh at the grotesqueness of the whole proceedings.

True, the manga is not aimed at us. But if you're going to set out to write about an extra-short girl and her struggles, it would seem reasonable to shorten her bf a bit. I would think if these two were somewhere in the same height ballpark the relationship would come across as more equal and companionable.

... Last updated on June 28th, 2016, 2:36pm

I'm about as anti-pedophilia as you can get. After reading a couple chapters, that's basically all I could see it as. Don't care for lolis. Just imagine if some man wanted to fool around with your daughter/little sister who was in elementary school. All these series about scantily clad little, prepubescent girls showing their panties and the lolicon hentai (usually incest) makes me think that Japan is full of pedophiles. I guess it's hard for many people to understand if they don't have their own child. Well... sometimes even that don't matter.