;a; They seriously have NO good pictures of this manga!! Anyway, if you couldn't tell, this is a picture of the first volume of Beauty is the Beast
Manga Name: Beauty is the Beast
Number of Volumes: 5
Author and Artist: Tomo Matsumoto
Age Scale: 10+?
Summery:
When bubbly eleventh-grader Eimi Yamashita finds out that her parents are relocating for work, she decides to strike out on her own and move into a dormitory for girls. Little does Eimi suspect the exciting romantic adventures that await her there! Eimi's fellow residents are a little bit crazy but a whole lot of fun. They've got a secret mission planned for Eimi's new resident initiation...and it has something to do with sneaking into the boys' dormitory across the street and returning with a special keepsake! Can Eimi pull it off without getting caught by one of the handsomest (and cruelest) boys in the dorm?
Personal Opinion: To be honest, this was a lot better than I thought it would be XD It was funny, the characters, god, they were all so lovable! Seriously, I just want to hug Eimi! <3 The art style was also... Pretty different, but I really did enjoy it and thought it was a unique shoujo art style. Over all, I really liked the humor the best. It was also random and the manga seemed to pass the time very quickly :3
End of Manga Spoiler: I could not stop laughing at the end of the manga. So, it shows Eimi and Wanichin married with a child, and Wanichin has aged, but Eimi still looks the same. Though, I really did like that at the end, they had their daughter going to school there, it just took me the longest time to realize that it was their DAUGHTER and NOT Eimi! Haha, I know their daughter has long hair, but I missed it the first few times....
All in All?: Over all, it was a lot of fun to read... Even though like every three-four chapters was it's own plot. (or some times one chapter had a plot of it's own.) I guess it was a good AND bad thing about it. I always like mangas that have plots that were worked out really well and a lot of thought was put into them.. While Beauty is the Beast, I don't know if it really had a "base plot" (Base Plot=A term Poochy uses that describes the over all goal/what the manga is about, and through out the base plot, it has smaller plots and from there, it can just keep working it's way down to plots within the smaller plots. [ex. For this plot to be completed, this must happen, and after that, you have to do these two things, etc.])
1-5 Scale: 3 1/2, I really did like it, but I'm down grading because again the lack of plotness..
Where You Can Read: here!
'oTZ I swear, I'm going to type "Beauty AND the Beast" some day....
