Crazy Coffee Cat

The plot is cute and the characters are likeable. From reading the first 14 chapters, I have a feeling it's going to be a build-your-passion/follow-your-dream based journey, and it's overall very enjoyable.

I can't wait for more to be scanlated - it's very refreshing reading about coffee and seeing office life in motion =)

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Readable - an okay passtime

by Renesmee37
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

I've read some 12 chapters of this, and so far ... it isn't too bad. The art, is definitely gorgeous. I'd probably love to have a poster with this sort of art somewhere on my bedroom wall!

But to get back to the point, I think it's an okay story. Not overly original, but not entirely cliché - the usual girl-meets-celebrity sort of plot, except neither of them can really stand each other. She reminds him of an old girlfriend (?) or an old love, and she just wants to follow her dream.

Art : ~ 10.00

Like I, said, it's GORGEOUS!!

Plot/Story : ~ 06.50

It's too lacking in originality. Even then, I don't always mind clichéd stories, but the humour is too light to even compensate.

Characters : ~ 08.90

Likeable characters. The main girl could use some emotional maturity ... and the celebrity what's-his-face needs to stop being a total jackass.

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WTF is up with this?

by brid
14 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

The art for this manhwa is quite pretty. It's worth taking a look at the manhwa for that alone. Unfortunately, that's the ONLY thing I can recommend to you about Crazy Coffee Cat.

The story is, in a word, nonsense. I've read 10 chapters so far and I have no clue where the author is going with this or what the point of the series is supposed to be. It literally feels like the manhwaga is writing whatever occurs to him at the moment without any sort of plan. In the first chapter, the main character Ko Yang Yra, an out of work musician applies to work at a coffee company because she really likes cheap instant coffee. It turns out that the other people at the interview are far more qualified than Yra is, but rather than giving up, Yra makes an inspirational speech before walking out of the interview. Inexplicably, Yra gets the job anyway. In the chapters that follow, Yra visits a magical(?) coffee shop, meets a pop idol disguised in a mustache and top hat, goes on a date with said idol, experiences visions/random moments of déjà vu, and decides to give up on music in order to make coffee brewing her life's passion. If only all of this were tongue in cheek, I might be enjoying myself. But no, all of it is presented in complete seriousness: in this manhwa, coffee brewing can change the world!

Picture any sports manga you may have read, but substitute coffee for basketball or tennis and you'll have a pretty good idea of the passion and glory that surrounds making a cup of coffee in this manhwa. Actual dialogue from chapter 10: "You'll see, I'll make it happen. I'll show people the cup of coffee everyone likes, and appreciates. One where they can feel one's heart and sincerity. I'll show them, I can do this wherever it might be!" The manhwa also doesn't disappoint in being chock full of random facts about brewing coffee (that probably came off wikipedia, honestly).

Simply put, the manhwa is crack, and not the good kind.

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