**spoiler alert** Love love love. I'm not even particularly into fantasy, but I adored this. So much mystery! Is the Togu good or bad? Will Sakura con**spoiler alert** Love love love. I'm not even particularly into fantasy, but I adored this. So much mystery! Is the Togu good or bad? Will Sakura conquer her wish to eat people? What exactly is up with Oura's feelings towards Sakura? I can't wait to find out in Vol 2!...more
I really enjoyed this one, even though it's not in the running for "favourite ever", and I'm at a bit of a loss as to why I liked it so much.
The art iI really enjoyed this one, even though it's not in the running for "favourite ever", and I'm at a bit of a loss as to why I liked it so much.
The art is gorgeous - cute girls and beautiful boys abound. However, the characters look very much alike. I have real trouble telling Haine, Ushio and Maora apart, and that's not something that's ever happened to me with manga. The boys are a little easier, but that might be because there's only two of them and one of them wears a bandage all the time.
The storyline, at first sight, seems a bit pieced-together, with elements that appear to have been borrowed from other manga (the ditsy heroine from Fruits Basket, the elite high school from Ouran, etc). Yet as I got through the first volume, things started to fall into place, and depending on where they go with the adoption storyline and Haine's yanki past, I think that there's definite potential for this series to carve out its own little niche.
The characters, I'm undecided on. Haine initially seemed too simple and silly to appeal to me - her doe-eyed optimism and obsessive love for Shizumasa made her seem extremely young and fluffy. Yet her years as a yanki, and her tendency to get into physical fights, create an interesting dichotomy, and I think she may be more of an intriguing character than I'd initially expected. Shizumasa seemed like an unusual hero from the start, and I'd like to know what drives him.
All in all, this isn't quite 5 stars for me, but a solid 4.5, and I'll definitely try and continue the series....more
I'm really not sure what to think of this one. It took me most of the first volume to work up any feeling for, but my interest was piqued around the 3I'm really not sure what to think of this one. It took me most of the first volume to work up any feeling for, but my interest was piqued around the 3/4 mark.
The drawing is beautiful, although the battle scenes are too busy for my taste, and I love the fact that the protagonist is a shy, unsure teenage boy - I haven't found many manga where this is the case. I'm also quite intrigued by the whole light / shadow thing - and particularly by the fact that cheerful, friendly Sakura has a shadow nature while angry, morose goth Tachibana is a light worker. Yet I haven't formed any real attachment for either characters or storyline yet.
I'm unsure as to whether I'll read any more of Gate 7. Probably I won't buy it, but I expect I'll pick volume 2 up if I see it at the library. 3.5 stars, but we'll round up, as ever....more
A great volume, but the edition that I got out of the library has quite a bad printing error - the second half of the episode with Shiro, and the firsA great volume, but the edition that I got out of the library has quite a bad printing error - the second half of the episode with Shiro, and the first half of the episode at the jungle pool, are completely cut out. I don't know if this was corrected in other editions, so I suggest checking before you buy!
(Edit, as of Oct 2018: I’ve now read a correct copy of this, and am happy to bump my review up to 4.5 / 5 stars.)
Overall, though, I found this a really cute volume and I'm looking forward to continuing. I've seen the anime, but only read the first two volumes of the manga now, so it'll be really fun to see what the anime missed. 4 stars, so far, though I may change that in the future....more
This rabbit hole just goes too deep for me. The pictures are stunning and the story spectacularly complex, but it's not to my taste - my head hurts juThis rabbit hole just goes too deep for me. The pictures are stunning and the story spectacularly complex, but it's not to my taste - my head hurts just reading the Wiki, let alone the rest of the manga volumes. Beautifully written and drawn, and perfect for fans of fantasy - just not a good fit for me personally. 4 stars for gorgeous artwork and a great story, and perhaps I'll come back and try again when I'm at a different stage in life....more
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