The art is cute but the story was...eh. BEFORE anyone thinks that I have no heart or something, I have a very good reason to think this way. The story has soooooooo much resemblance to Fullmoon wo Sagashite it's not even funny...the girl's reaction when saying
"don't come into my heart" and the senpai's death....i knew he was dead when she wanted tarou to stay away from her and not get close to her. =_=
If anything, it's a super short version of Fullmoon wo Sagashite...Niina = Mitsuki and the senpai = Eichi. If I hadn't read Fullmoon wo Sagashite before this, I'm sure I would've cried. I'm easily touched, but this is definitely not original in my opinion. I can't help but think that this author may have taken the idea from Arina Tanemura. Of course the author might've really came up with the plot by herself, but seeing how popular Arina Tanemura used to be (or is still, I'm not quite sure), it wouldn't be far fetched to say that she has probably read Fullmoon wo Sagashite. But of course I could be wrong. But anyone who has read Fullmoon and this cannot deny the fact that there are just too many similarities in not only the plot but even some parts of the dialogue.
Art: 9/10
Story:6/10 for orginality (I gave it a 6 because the taking pictures part was pretty creative, the only difference I see between Fullmoon and this) PS the person below me said there is angst and drama in the story, and I agree, but it's not executed very well. I see it as forced angst and drama. Oh but at least the ending was cute. I liked how she didn't actually go through all that trouble for nothing...even though she needed the help of Tarou.
Characters: 6/10 Hm I didn't feel any connection with the characters at all. I felt that the relationship was forced on too quickly (yes I know it's only 3 chapters). Plus, the main character bothered me a lot too...maybe because I also didn't like Mitsuki from Fullmoon and she's a lot like her. Tarou was better at least.
Overall, 6/10. Why? Just because the art is great doesn't change the fact that the story has been used before. This author has written better manga that didn't have all the forced angst.