Without the sex, making it suitable for a teen-and-up audience and anyone who loves the roller coaster of feelings as two people meant for each other find each other. Misao Harada would love a normal high school. High school is hard enough, even under the best of circumstances. (If this sounds familiar, it's been the grounding for countless Harlequins.) This book provides the emotional drama of Sensual Phrase Viz, 8.99 (194pp) ISBN 978-1-4215-2764-2. The story is similarly traditional, straight romance with the emotionally blocked male needing female redemption to express love. Panels consist of the traditional shojo manga focus on heads and facial expressions. She falls almost instantly in love but fears her feelings because she'll never fit in his world. He tolerates her because she's the only one who keeps trying to spend time with him regardless of his bad attitude. There's lots of internal monologue as Akari ponders Horiuchi's attitudes and her feelings about him. Akari becomes his assistant, even though she knows nothing about kabuki, and he hates everyone. High school hottie Horiuchi, earlier hurt by Akari's accidental entry, turns out to have broken ribs and a great talent for the stage. Ordinary girl Akari follows a belled cat into a kabuki theater in an opening scene reminiscent of Alice's trip to Wonderland.
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