This manga is horrendous. I feel terrible after having read it and not in the "I am so emotionally invested in this story, this was so sad" kind of way but in the "I can't believe I wasted my time reading this contrived POS" way.
Koizora revolves around the shy girl Mika who has a phone-friendship and this scary guy Hiro in her school turns out to be the friend! Oh how utterly predictable for a shoujo manga. So the two get together and while the manga first seemed to go into the direction of showing problems that can arise in a relationship and even did something that most shoujo mangas do not do, it quickly devolves into more contrived banter.
The characters are utterly unlikeable. Mika has the spine of a limp noodle and Hiro has no good personality at all. And while the rest of the characters range from unlikeable to forgettable, they don't matter because, face it, when the main hero (his name is a pun, get it?) and heroine are annoying, you can't get any worse.
Everything bad that can happen does happen. And after a while it really devolves into Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy. Something terrible happens. Then something else terrible happens. And if that wasn't bad enough, something terrible happens then, too! And even if there is a small light of hope of something good coming, bam! Something bad happens again. After a while it's really difficult to care about anything in this manga because you just know that something bad is gonna happen, so why should you care anymore?
Unlikeable heroine + Too many bad things = Nobody Cares
And even the ending, after taking one giant "This is sad!! You should cry!!" fist and punching you in the face with it, is terrible. Mika seems to not have evolved or advanced as a human being and, given a spoiler that I cannot mention, I highly wonder if things would even work out, given how things end.
This was supposedly based off of a phone novel that was biographical, and while I can imagine a lot of bad things happening to one person, THIS seems like it went a little too overboard and does not make me believe that all this happened to one person.
Please, please, do not read this story! Even if you are a huge fan of shoujo manga and love the predictable story and bland characters with only differences being names and appearances, don't read it.
Literature Contrived To The Extreme
This manga is horrendous. I feel terrible after having read it and not in the "I am so emotionally invested in this story, this was so sad" kind of way but in the "I can't believe I wasted my time reading this contrived POS" way.
Koizora revolves around the shy girl Mika who has a phone-friendship and this scary guy Hiro in her school turns out to be the friend! Oh how utterly predictable for a shoujo manga. So the two get together and while the manga first seemed to go into the direction of showing problems that can arise in a relationship and even did something that most shoujo mangas do not do, it quickly devolves into more contrived banter.
The characters are utterly unlikeable. Mika has the spine of a limp noodle and Hiro has no good personality at all. And while the rest of the characters range from unlikeable to forgettable, they don't matter because, face it, when the main hero (his name is a pun, get it?) and heroine are annoying, you can't get any worse.
Everything bad that can happen does happen. And after a while it really devolves into Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy. Something terrible happens. Then something else terrible happens. And if that wasn't bad enough, something terrible happens then, too! And even if there is a small light of hope of something good coming, bam! Something bad happens again. After a while it's really difficult to care about anything in this manga because you just know that something bad is gonna happen, so why should you care anymore?
Unlikeable heroine + Too many bad things = Nobody Cares
And even the ending, after taking one giant "This is sad!! You should cry!!" fist and punching you in the face with it, is terrible. Mika seems to not have evolved or advanced as a human being and, given a spoiler that I cannot mention, I highly wonder if things would even work out, given how things end.
This was supposedly based off of a phone novel that was biographical, and while I can imagine a lot of bad things happening to one person, THIS seems like it went a little too overboard and does not make me believe that all this happened to one person.
Please, please, do not read this story! Even if you are a huge fan of shoujo manga and love the predictable story and bland characters with only differences being names and appearances, don't read it.