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Old 2003-11-17, 21:33   Link #16
snoopy
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Originally Posted by LynnieS
"Kare Kano" is the manga for "His and Her Circumstances". Also very good, and the anime is faithful to the manga. Book 6 should be out by now too. Quality of the art has gone down, I think, though.
*Snoopy looks down at volume 15*
.... The art's great... granted, maybe 5 years ago when volume 5 was released it wasn't up to this standard... but they based the anime on the art of volumes 7 and 8, and all of the little sketchy looking pictures in the end of the anime are actual manga pages, and they look wonderful...

Also, from what I hear (I don't buy very many English mangas, so I can't speak from personal experience), KareKano is done very poorly, both in editing and translating. Some people I've talked to have sworn off all TP releases after reading volume 1 of KareKano. And these are people who generally read just about anything, so it hit me kinda hard. Anyway, this is my favorite shoujo manga of all time. I love it more than is natural for a man to love a manga written for 16 year old girls.
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