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Summary: Wataru Yoshizumi's beloved manga series is finally available
Review: Marmalade Boy is a shojo (girls') manga by Wataru Yoshizumi, centering around high school student Miki Koishikawa and her crazy circle of family and friends. In this, the first volume, Miki's parents are divorcing in order to swap spouses with another couple, the Matsuuras. While Miki's less than thrilled with this turn of events, the other couple's son, Yuu, is awfully good-looking...Once Miki, Yuu, and their parents have all moved into one house as one big happy family, a new wrinkle is added. Ginta Suou, Miki's tennis club captain and long-time friend, rejected her in junior high when she wrote him a love letter. They're just friends now...or at least Miki feels that way. Ginta may feel a bit differently... Yoshizumi's elegant (though anatomically disastrous) art does a handy job of realizing the quirky characters, and the top-notch localization helps pull you into Miki's world. The plotting is expert also (though on occasion soap-operaish). This is one of my favorite manga series, and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: Marmalade Boy is in my top three favorite manga titles of all-time. That's how good it is.
It has no magical girls. No magic powers. No cat-girls. No fanservice. Just an all-around good story.
I picked this title up a while back, sometime last year around October or November.
After I had only read a few pages of the books, I was already in love with this series.
16-year-old Miki Koishikawa's life is turned upside down when her parents tell her that they're getting a divorce and switching partners and re-marrying to a couple named the Matsuuras.
The Matsuuras have a son the same age as Miki, who is named Yuu.
And as if that isn't bad enough, all of them have to move into a house TOGETHER! Oh no!
Oh and did I mention Yuu is REALLY cute?
This has kind of a soap-opearish theme to it. Buy this if LOVE shoujo filled with romance and cute characters!
Great artwork, too. Hope this helped!!
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Summary: Soap Opera on Acid
Review: Marmalade Boy is one of my favorite comic and for good reasons. It's entertaining, funny, cute, and fun. Miki's dysfunctional family, friends, relationships, and crazy hijinks rocks. Marmalade Boy is the story of Miki's life, her crazy parents decide to switch partners with another couple! Now Miki has to deal with all them and her new stepbrother. Not to mentions her own crazy romance when she finds herself receiving the affection of her old flame and new stepbrother. And this is on a good day! I haven't fount a great read like this in a long time. Marmalade Boy is a soap opera on acid. It crazy and loveable all at once.
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Summary: Doushiyou!?
Review: Marmalade Boy is something that many people have said would never be licensed, because it has no audience in America. This applies to the anime in particular, since there are over 70 episodes. However, thankfully that's been proven wrong in the fact that both the anime and manga have been licensed by TOKYOPOP. Marmalade Boy is like a soap opera in a way. There are no magical powers, no giant robots and no dragons. Instead we follow the day-to-day life of Miki Koishikawa. The story starts with a bizarre turn of events that result in teenage Miki living in one house with four parents and her new step-brother, Yuu. Yuu seems like a jerk (albeit a very good-looking one) to her, but is very popular at school. Naturally she finds herself getting caught under Yuu's spell, but things become complicated as it is revealed that both Miki and Yuu have old flames (Ginta and Arimi respectively) who are still interested in them. Marmalade Boy is light-hearted, romantic fun. This highlights a fundamental difference between Marmalade Boy and most soaps: Instead of making you want to throw things at the screen because the characters are so stupid, Marmalade Boy makes you smile when you read it. I have one word to describe the translation: Incredible. Anyone who still holds a grudge against Mixx/Tokyopop for how they treated some of their older titles will find themselves converted upon reading this. And anyone who's worried that reading right-to-left style will confuse you, don't worry, it becomes second nature after a few minutes :D And what's the title of my review all about? Simple: I have to wait a month until the next book. What should I do!?
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Summary: Best manga ever!!!!
Review: Marmalade Boy is the best series. There's no magical powers or weight-lifting girls. It's a down to earth story that you'll love. The first thing I noted when I saw the books were the incredible artworks. There's ads in the back of all mangas, compare Marmalade Boy's artwork to the rest, you'll see what I mean. It's no surprise that Marmalade Boy is Wataru's best selling manga series. Don't listen to the people who hate Marmalade Boy. If you need more insight, go to a bookstore and read a few pages of it, you'll see what I mean.
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Summary: Objective or not objective? THAT is the question. MB: Vol 1
Review: Marmlade Boy has a fairly soap operish premise: A young teenage girls parents go on a cruise and meet another married couple, they both fall in love, decide to get divorced, move in together in one big house so that they families can stay a family, and get married. Now of course this turns the childrens lives upside-down. Especially Miki's, she is very determined to make them see what a mistake this is, while the other couple's child Yuu, only (seemingly)cares about his parent's own happiness and disregards his own. Miki is taken aback by his calm and collected attitude, she just DOESN'T understand how ANYONE could act like that, in this sort of situation. Needless to say there are many other complications in Miki's life as well. Such as a past love, a friend named "Ginta" who "supposedly" burned her really badly when she professed her love to him. Oh, and this is just the first Volume. ;P Marmlade Boy may have soap operish themes, but that doesn't make it a soap Opera at all. Because in my opinion a soap opera is something that takes itself waaaaaay to seriously when it should, and ends up being hilarious as a result. Marmalade Boy on the other hand doesn't take itself completely seriously. It has a balance, it is a very delicate and thin line that Mataru Yoshizumi walks across with assurance and handles the subject matter wonderfully. Marmalde Boy is very funny, not because it takes itself to seriously and has a lousy and laughable story, but because it has a great sense of humor and is genuinely funny. On top of all that, the High School students are Freshman, and they ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE FRESHMAN.! Wow! hehe Its just, most of the time in manga, the characters look a lot older then they are(unless they are older to begin with). So it is refreshing to see a manga with the teenagers look like teenagers. hehe I HIGHLY reccomend "Marmalade Boy" Volume 1, to anyone who likes quality manga or Shoujo. The series continues on with the same quality, and I would reccomend the subsequent volumes as well. God Bless & *enjoy* ~Amy
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Summary: Just Plain Fun!
Review: Not too deep. There are enough emotions and true angst to keep it from being helpless pointless, and yet it is light enough to make you laugh. Truly an entertaining adventure.
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Summary: This is definatly for people who love romance
Review: Now, I don't want to sit here and name every little flaw this book has. Personly, I didn't enjoy it very much. But hey, that's just my opinion! I know lots of other people really like this series, but it just didn't keep me interested very long... I've read so many just like it.
Of course, the main story is completly original. I've never read one like it before, but as I said it was still all very familar. The art was pretty good, but other than that I wasn't interested. If your over the age of 13, I think you will find yourself very bored with this manga. BUT, I have read alot of manga that I use to compare this to. I think this series is really for younger girls who have just started reading manga and who like the soapy romance scene.
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Summary: Marmalade Boy
Review: ok this manga (like many others) was recomended to me by one of my friends it's an awesome manga and there's never a dull momment in the story! an awesome mix of comedy and romance.
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Summary: Love it!
Review: omg it is awesome and so addictive and wow the thing teenagers go through is unbeliveble. I love it so much awesome and it'a a true book. I'm not one to read romance but wow amazed at it !
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