…Seishunchuu!

Presenting one surprising shoujo finding I recently made.

aka: …青春中！

Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life.

Author: Kurihara Mamoru

Illustrator: Kurihara Mamoru

Year: 1998 (2 vol. ongoing/dropped?)

Serialized in: Dessert

Licensed by: -

Site: -

Read Online: Mangafox

Notes: It has 2 volumes but seems the last one was dropped by the scanlation group.

Summary: Terada Kiriko has always admired her beautiful older sister, Eiko. Going to S Private High School, she decided to become the top student, just like her sister. But, in the opening ceremony, Kiriko discovers Eiko will be teaching in there and ends up already labelled as the teacher’s younger sister.
Tired of always being outshadowed in spite of her efforts, Kiriko decides to no longer aspire being like her sister and cuts her hair.

She continues her school life being herself, with her new friend Ketsuka and her stalker Takeshi, what does the future hold?

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I was searching for something new to read and I accidently clicked this title: I’m glad I did so. Definitely one of the most positive shoujo findings I discovered while iddling in a while. I was quite surprised I haven’t heard of it before… I guess being from the last millenium and 2 volumes far doesn’t help much but, even so, it’s hard to get info (went searching).

The thing I liked the most was how this manga combined an expected shoujo plot with a shounen-oriented comedy, mostly visual. This makes the averageness lift up a bit but it’s still the human character’s personality which naturally motivates the reading.

A good shoujo for a fast read, that breaks from clichés. Not brilliant, but certainly under-rated.

Reasons to read it:

• younger sister breakthrough plot;
• realistic protagonist;
• warm characters;
• attractive shoujo-seriousness/slapstick shonen-comedy dual art style;
• good-hearted sex fiend virgin after protagonist.

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Tags: ...seishunchuu!, Kurihara Mamoru, Manga

• September 22, 2010
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