手裏剣とプリーツ 1 [Shuriken to Pleats 1] - Mats... Completed Series Rating
⭐️3 stars⭐️

Completed Series Rating
⭐️4.5 stars⭐️

Vampire Knight: Fleeting Dreams - Matsur... This book should be read AFTER the entire manga.
This book despite being 268 pages long is actually a fast read because...
It's double spaced.
I shit you not. And ViZ wanted $15 for this originally.

I will admit I'm only familiar with the anime, however even so I was able to follow along with the story. Which means the main story is that banal that everything makes sense without 90% of it, or that you really don't need these stories for anything.

The stories themselves are varied. One thing you get a note of is that there is a LOT of incest going on in the manga. Literal bother and sister pairings.

That being said, White Lily's story was probably the second worst as the whole beginning is making a joke of her feelings. I know it's a horse, but that attitude translates to real women in real life too.

The worst was Shien's story where she is constantly called poison just because she likes sex and men. She's also shamed for having a 'boy' harem because women should NEVER call men boys even though it seems the reverse is never true.

GR Cleanup Read May 2011

 

This was a fun vampiric manga set in a school where there are "day students" and "night students". Yuki is a cute heroine and there is what looks like a love triangle (groan, I know) possibly forming between her, the gorgeous and mysterious night school class president who saved her life years earlier and her tormented friend Zero who is keeping many secrets. I'm rooting for Zero but who knows what will happen? It is in black and white and because several of the characters have very similar features I was a bit confused at times who was who but this is pretty common in most of the manga I read.

3 stars

The art is stunning, the plot a muddled mess. I'm not exactly sure what happened during most of the book, but I sure didn't mind looking at the illustrations as I tried to figure it out.

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