Horimiya

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Name: Horimiya ホリミヤ
Author: HERO

Status: On-going 
Chapters: 40 (for eng scans)
Release Date (for eng scan): Once a month


Summary:

Hori may seem like a normal teenage girl, but she's a completely different person after school. In her workaholic parents' absence, Hori has been like a parent for her little brother since she was young herself. Between taking care of her brother, feeding them both, and housework, she doesn't have much time for a usual teenage social life. One day, she meets someone else who does not present his true self at school: a quiet, glasses-wearing boy called Miyamura. She'd assumed he was bookish, and possibly an otaku, but Hori couldn't have been more wrong. Outside of school, Miyamura is a friendly guy with many piercings, and he's not very good at academics. Now the two of them have someone with whom they can share both halves of their lives!

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Personal Ratings: 4.5

When I saw a random page of this manga from tumblr, I just had this gut feelings that it would be awesome. So I went to mangareader to find this manga.

Totally fell in love with the manga after the first few pages. Really cute manga. 

I totally love how each characters are so carefree and so flexible, yet so adorable all at the same time. 

I totally love the story. A really unique Shoujo (girls) manga. If you read a lot of Shoujo mangas, you would realise that there is always a certain pattern to it. But for this manga, I think it's a very unique and fresh idea. Really like the idea about them knowing each other's halves that they won't not want others to know. Really makes them closer then they seem. 

The main thing why I really like this manga is probably because of the fact that it's not very girly. (Psh, hate those type of mangas.). 

I also love the way they put their jokes. It does not seem forced, but seem very very natural. (not like those comedy mangas, most of them seem very forced.) It seems like this manga has the power to make most of the irritating character not irritating. 

Most anime or manga, when the girl or the guy is really dense, it's always irritating to watch or read. But for this manga, even though both of them are kind of dense, it does not take it to the extreme level of what you would call a total idiot. In fact, it really seem to fit naturally into their character, which kind of makes things easier to accept, and less irritable. 

Though one thing that kind of bothered me, was the fact that even though the main character was suppose to be the girl, it seems like as the manga progresses, she gets lesser scenes and the manga seem to shift its focus mostly on the main guy. 

Comments on recent chapter:

Their picking it up, but I can tell that there isn't much that they can write anymore at this point of itme, except for more irrelevant things. I'm hoping they develop the side stories more. Chapters were really quite funny. Loved them.


Art Ratings: 4

Not a unique art.

At first, I really thought the art kind of sucks, but as I read the manga, I thought it really suite the theme. Rather then the art, I thought that the colouring kind of sucks, it seems kind of messy.

Really cute art with balance, though it lacks dimension. 

Recommended for:
Gender: Female & Male
Age: 13 and above
My Ratings: PG-13