Monday, May 23, 2011

LoveCom: Volume 16

by Aya Nakahara, 183 pages

Graduation day! Koizumi and Ôtani bicker and tease their way through their final days of high school, just as they've done the whole of the preceding year, and fans of the series wouldn't have it any other way. If the two can help their awkward friends with awkward crushes in the process--having a lot of experience in that area, themselves--then so much the better.

Hee hee! This series makes me giggle. It's rare to have such openly happy main characters in a shojo manga. Sure, they have their moments of insecurity and regret, but they always come around in the end. This volume includes a good-sized bonus story, "The Place Where We Belong," about Teppei Koike, the young pop culture idol who plays Ôtani in the live-action film adaptation of the series, and how he and his friend and band partner Eiji Wentz met and followed their dreams.

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