After reading the summary I half expected some epic story about an all powerful Dragon Mage traversing across the world in an attempt to collect baby dragons and protect them from the evils that are trying to abuse their power. But that was not the case.
In this series it was more like the day to day life of Maciel and his 7 baby dragons. Nothing really epic or end-of-world like, unless you count someone eating someone else's piece of cake the end of the world, which to a kid it could very well be. XD Based on the series image on this page, I guess I should have guessed it wasn't the common save the world plot that I'm so used to seeing. Ah, it even says slice-of-life, shows how observant I am.
The drawing style in this manga was clean and well drawn, not too much detail but not too plain. The chapters and stories were more episodic than a plot, but they seemed to add together somehow without feeling very choppy. They dealt a lot on details of growing up for both the baby dragons and their guardians. In each I could see the lesson they were trying to teach very clearly.
Each character was well developed and well placed in the story. Not one character was the cliche 'perfect' character, or the 'perfect' character with one major flaw. I like that. There was no real angst or romance either.
In a sense, this was so sweet and cute it almost made my teeth rot, but in a good way (who needs teeth anyways). XP I couldn't stop reading it. People that like a definite plot and a little more action may not like this manga. I'm usually one of these people, but I'll make an exception for this one. The characters were all so love-able. I like the calm everyday-ness in this manga, ordinary but with a slight magical, fantasy feel to it along with a bit of mischief from the dragons to make you chuckle.
All in all, it was very unexpected but I loved it. This was a refreshing read. I hope the sequel gets scanlated by a group soon. I'd love to continue reading the mini adventures of these little dragons and their people.