☆Dopeness☆ ~

Year: 2009
Volumes: 1 (4 Chapters + Extra)
Categories: Drama, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Artist: YOSHINAGA Yuu
Author: YOSHINAGA Yuu

Stories
1. Natsuiro Memorial (A Summer-Colored Memorial)
2. Kimi to Watashi no Kakaomoi (Our One-Sided Love)
3. Suki yori mo Kirai (Hate Over Love)
4. Yuki ni Negai (w)o (Wish Upon the Snow)
5. Shuushoku Memorial (A Fall-Colored Memorial)

The first stories is First love which is a sweet poison. A painful, but unforgettable love. Two years have passed since the graduation day and they meet again during a high school reunion. His appearance has changed, but...?

I thought this was a cute story two years have passed since graduation and Utsumi and Matsuri meet again during a middle school reunion. Utsumi, who dyed his hair back to his original color, seems different than before. And It shows how mature his become and Utsumi being like any girl with a crush wants to know what the change was and she realises that after one of her friends tells her who it was because of that made Matsuri change a girl called Sayaka. Of course for a shoujo there is misunderstanding and all sorts so that’s what happened after of course Utsumi got drunk and needed to puke Matsuri picked her up and dragged her away and after she was done, he explains everything which was sweet at the most horrible moment just to confess! Haha! The relay their feelings together and its pretty cute!

The second stories about a one sided love between Yuma and Taichi I found this super, I loved Yuma in this I liked how she wasn’t like all clichéd characters. The story was of how Rina introduces her friend Yuma to Taichi and how along the way Yuma realises that Taichi likes Rina  who now is going out with Tachi’s best friend who is the complete opposite of him. It was a small story of how they overcome this I loved how at one point she didn’t go out of the shadows and say stay with me or anything clichéd like that and start crying or something. Instead she said go to your friend and that if he and Rina was happy she was too, which was awesome! :D

The Third story was just so awesome to me! I loved this one it was so rare to find some shoujo’s where the girl stands up and this is where she does stand up! The hate and love relationship between Reina and Arai I found this smouldering. I enjoyed watching Reina explain why she hated him and how, it was at first by the first chapter thought she was going to go chase after him but it wasn’t like that so I was really surprised! I really liked this one I think it stood out more a bit than the others.

The fourth story all in all I enjoyed the couple I thought they were cute Kaho and Haru, I liked how it wasn’t the girl who noticed this time it was the guy who fell in love, the slow process and all I particularly enjoyed the end part of the scene I thought that was such a clever way to tell and hope for something, she finally wants to confess to him, she doesn't do it just "randomly" but instead, basing it off the 30% snowfall  I found that extremely sweet. Cause the 50% was the hot chocolate and coffee and the 90% was getting to Tokyo university which was interesting, she also based it upon the chance of having snow fall I thought if I could do something like this It would be awesome!

Overall I thought this manga was super well done! I hope to see more of the Authors work it was clever in a interesting way aka last story, unpredictable aka third story and pretty nostalgic first story they all had the elements of shoujo but it had a slight twist for it which was pretty cool! Also the main protagonists were too awesome for words totally adored them to bits!