Essentially, we spent 70 chapters seeing Hime go as far as dressing up as a boy and debuting as a male seiyuu to get experience and become "top class" despite being terrible and apparently talentless. She starts getting somewhere, getting acknowledgement and event winning over Kudou Senri on the way (as both a friend and potentially something more)... and then just as it's about to get good, it ends. Her career is reset because Yamada's "fulfilled his dream" (and I don't even know what his dream even is - was it just to get Sakura to acknowledge one of his charges? What was it?), so what was the point of all this? 70 chapters of work experience where she continuously "tries harder" and eats a lot of omurice by Senri on the way? We also don't get to see any romantic development either, because that too stops just before it really starts. And what happened with Sakura and Hime's mother? Both of them are terrible mothers and responsible for much of the problems experienced by Senri and Hime, but despite the plot seeming to gear up to a massive showdown with Sakura, she was nothing but a cameo.

If there's one thing I want to commend about this manga, it's the fact that Minami Maki managed to sidestep the worst part of a gender bender - the fallout where the hero finds out the female is really using a false identity. I was fully prepared for him to lash out at her in anger, particularly considering how important a friend Shiro was to him, but I was pleasantly surprised to see him react in such a sensible, thoughtful manner. It was unrealistic, probably, but I still liked that his mind managed to switch over from Shiro to Hime so quickly.

Just why do I have the feeling, that those 70 chapters where only about a girl - dressed as a guy - eating omelett rice -.-