Purikyuu
By MOTOMI Kyousuke
Anna: I've given my life to ballet as a kid... now I want to try out other things! I know I'll excel on them as well because I'm a genius!
Anna's Friend: Why don't you try the Archery Club then? *forces Anna inside*
Anna: Whut?! No way! I don't want to be in some old man's sport.
Jinnai: *hits Anna* Don't go inside with your shoes on!!!
Anna: ... Why you! *hits back* If tihs bastard's gonna be here, I'll join the club then. I'm certainly going to enjoy making his life miserable~
Jinnai: It's going to be the other way around, you know. *glare*
| SETTING: Contemporary. Archery Club. Japan. ELEMENTS: Archery. Ballet. Rival. Hardwork. GENRE: Romance. Comedy. Drama. DEMOGRAPHIC: Shoujo. |  RATING: C- (SO-SO!)  FAVORITISM: 3 Hearts ---> LIKE |
Yeah, it's typical shoujo.... but I don't mind if it's entertaining!
My biggest problem on this I suppose is that it tries to emphasize the "trying your best will help in reaching your dreams" so hard that it's overdoing things... and has even become unrealistic (an amateur to become a competing archer only after a few days and a short camp just because she had intense training and practiced so hard? Yeah, right.). It didn't even make use of the heroine's skills in ballet... her being a ballerina was just used for her arrogant talks and for that forced drama in a later chapter.
It lacks so much on background, it had quite a number of plotholes, it follows too many of the shoujo cliches, it fails on story development, ....
Yeah, there's not much great stuff in this manga (Too bad, the idea of a ballerina trying archery was interesting). I think the only remarkable thing it had is that aside from the "working hard" thing, it shows the importance of your love and your seriousness towards a sport. Maybe this manga could've tackled that more if it also told us about the heroine's ballerina days... or when the hero is still struggling to become an excellent archer.
Ah well, at least the art was okay. The characters may be stereotypes but they're likeable. Even though I hadn't been impressed with this, I enjoyed reading it a lot because this manga, especially the hero and the heroine, are so amusing~
It lacks so much on background, it had quite a number of plotholes, it follows too many of the shoujo cliches, it fails on story development, ....
Yeah, there's not much great stuff in this manga (Too bad, the idea of a ballerina trying archery was interesting). I think the only remarkable thing it had is that aside from the "working hard" thing, it shows the importance of your love and your seriousness towards a sport. Maybe this manga could've tackled that more if it also told us about the heroine's ballerina days... or when the hero is still struggling to become an excellent archer.
Ah well, at least the art was okay. The characters may be stereotypes but they're likeable. Even though I hadn't been impressed with this, I enjoyed reading it a lot because this manga, especially the hero and the heroine, are so amusing~
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Aorii · 716 weeks ago
sapphirepyro 63p · 716 weeks ago
joojoobees 49p · 716 weeks ago
I don't know if you have seen RideBack. I recently watched it streaming on the Funimation website. It isn't shoujo, but it has some similarities to this title. The main character (college-aged) is a former ballerina, who hurt her ankle or something. She gave up dancing because she felt that her injury, though not preventing her from dancing, would prevent her from being the best. She then gets involved with a club for "RideBacks", which are motorcycle / robot hybrids. Then there is a political thriller / action plot. This show goes the "naturally gifted" route, in that her training as a ballerina makes her an amazing "RideBack" rider.
It was a pretty decent show. Surprisingly there was no romance. It is a short series, and the political / action plot drives everything after the first couple of episodes. Anyways, a pretty interesting take on the "Ballerina power put to unexpected use" idea. It also has nice character designs.
sapphirepyro 63p · 715 weeks ago
I agree to the things you mentioned, and I had really liked that series. Now to find the chance to marathon that already >_<
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