☆Dopeness☆ ~: Akuma de Sourou

Friday, 28 December 2012

Akuma de Sourou - Takanashi Mitsuba

07:41 | Posted by ☆Chibichaos☆ | Edit Post

Alternative Name: Devil Beside You
Genre(s):, Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, slice of life
Author(s): Takanashi Mitsuba
Status: Completed
volumes (s) : 11

High school is difficult for most kids. But for Kayano, a shy girl whose single mother seems to work all the time, it's even worse than usual. She's so afraid of drawing attention to herself that she can't tell the handsome Kamijo how much she loves him until one day she finally gets up the courage to write him a letter confessing her feelings...

Now this bad boy of a Manga consists of 11 volumes and boy was I happy with it all. IT was an amazing read for me! I was so enthralled by the slice of life in this story sometimes it hurt me. I mean normal high school girl who can't seem to get anything right ends up falling in love with her so called brother as their parents are married. Although they were together before they got married so it doesn't exactly mean it's incest or anything! I really loved Kayano as a character but she was at times too much of a cry baby I wasn't sure what to think of Takeru as he was the devil in disguise but he openly cared for Kayano regardless however it was really sad to see her suffer for him. It was emotional to read I really loved the art to it, I mean it showed it off so well I was in awe!

The characters are memorable, so much turmoil in this love story it's really not cliched or lovey dovey too much. I think it shows it off in a very mature manner. It goes through the stages of Kayano and its wonderful to see her aches and pains also regrets and her heart beating love when she looks at everyone. It's wonderful and I think it's one of the best manga for a long time, I loved the 90's style to the characters so melodramatic to me. It shows a different characterisation with the outfits and hairstyles they have pretty awesome with the illustration.

Flaws: "characterisation is so strong, it's amazing but then deters as the journey goes along" devices and constant, sappy, unbelievable love-triangle intrigue and other soap-opera conflicts. Takeru stops being a devil quite quickly, obviously, and there is little humor to be found.

But the ending to the story however is sweet, I wish there was Anime on this would be so awesome! Everyone would love it! I think the drama hit the spot though, it was good enough to eat although not a fan of Rainie yang as I was as a kid but she did surprisingly well for the first ever drama I watched of hers! I mean DEVIL BESIDE YOU was the first drama I watched to get into Taiwanese now I can't get enough of it! At first I found it weird but i loved every second and HELLO Mike He! ;) now that guy is what I call all round hot! He has the sexiest smile ever I think thats what triggered me to watch more, i'm glad I gave it a shot was worth it.

The Manga is worthwhile too! So when you have nothing better to do remember to check this Manga and Drama out because you wont be disappointed!

Dopey ~