Yasuhiro Kanō

Well now, wasn't this a fun but of PG-rated shojo manga! Cute, amusing, and deliciously twisted, it's the story of an arrogant bully who is horribly mangled and left for dead after a bus crash, only to have his face reconstructed in the image of his high-school crush (whose photo he keeps in his wallet).

It's a rather preposterous scenario, but the book quickly owns up to the fact, which makes the whole thing a bit more clever than I expected. Although the usual manga exaggerated facial expressions and dialogue are here, the story is actually told very well through the characters.

You really come to emphasize with Rando, finally coming so close to the girl he loves, but being unable to express his love . . . outside of an excruciatingly teasing big sister/best friend sort of way. Rina slowly changes the young man, redeeming the jock/jerk he used to be, while Dr. Manabe keeps trying to push him into a complete sex change.

Definitely a fun story, although I'm not sure there's enough depth to make me want to read the other 5 instalments.… (mehr)

The most hilarious premise ever. Honestly.

A boy--kind of a rough, bully guy--is on the school bus when it crashes. Everyone else gets out all right... he gets his face burned off and everyone thinks he's dead. He's in a coma for nearly a year/a year.

When he wakes up, his limbs are all skinny and weak from lack of exercise. Then he sees himself in the mirror and freaks out. The crazy doctor--who's a fascinating character all himself, and is a regular throughout the series--tells him that he got his face burned off. So the doctor looked in his pockets for a picture of him, and finds a picture of a beautiful girl... the boy's crush, because why would he have a picture of himself, amirite?

Now the boy looks like the girl he has a crush on--Pretty Face. Events unfold, he ends up living at the girl's house as the replacement for her twin sister, and they precede to go on crazy adventures where he has to try hard not to reveal the fact that he's a boy.

Funny, cute series. Worth the read.… (mehr)