I really appreciated this because the leads are unique in their own way and the premise was nice, the humor was awesome but crapdammit!!
I agree with workshyslacker! The one thing that really pissed me off was that I just kept feeling sorry for Hyoue, kept screaming at Amane whenever she kept hurting him
I don't care if she's lovable, she really is, but dammit!!
She keeps throwing Hyoue away!
The first time she really hurt him when she sent him home got me so mad, I kept feeling bad for Hyoue in so many instances after that, I wanted him to get a new master just to hurt idiot-Amane
Yes, she's strong, and yes, she says she believes in him but you can only count the number of times she actually acts like she believes in him with one hand as opposed to the number of times she gets insecure despite the countless number of times Hyoue has to and has kept proving himself of his devotion to her.
It took, what, 8 freaking volumes to get it through her thick head that she hurts him??!?! That she's the one who betrays him, unconciously or not?!?!
Then right after her huge one page enlightenment, she goes on and doubts him anyway?!?! Even the whole thing about him listening to her but her not trusting him enough to believe what he says out of concern is just...aaaaaargh.
Amane is a great girl, she really is. It's just...there's a whole load of things the mangaka says Amane is like really strong but she is rarely portrayed as such. Even the dynamics of her relationship with Hyoue is just imbalanced for me.
I am a fan of hero grovelling in romance(usually in books and yaoi) because I want the hero to realize how lucky he is to have the heroine and appreciate how much the heroine has to put up with his asinine self. Here, it's reversed because you could say Amane has the upper hand in the relationship so I pretty much wanted her to do something about it.
It's always Hyoue trying to climb up(like in yaoi where the uke is the one striving for the seme's love) and Amane does little to help.
Still, overall, I enjoyed it. It was a great read. My heart broke a few times for Hyoue and Amane is quite likable most of the time. Not a bad shoujo.