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wyntre_rose
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Hmmm...I may start to look into the manga of this after all. I'd only seen the anime before, and frankly a big part of my enjoyment of it came from the music - as I am a classical music lover - and the performances of the seiyuu. Neither of which, obviously, would transfer to the manga.
But after reading your review and the hints as to how much better previous volumes have been, it makes me wonder if I did the manga a disservice by juding it by its anime. The anime story always struck me as a silly, generic excuse to have tons of pretty guys fawn all over Kahoko (and hey, I like reverse harems as much as the next person, but I'd like it done a leetle more...elegantly, I guess...)but does the manga have a better plot? Is this volume past the story the anime tells, or are they in no way comparable? |
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Alan45
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The story in the anime takes up the first 10 volumes of the manga. The basic story is the same but the details are different. I've enjoyed it for the characters and story.
It is definately worth a try. |
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Princess_Irene
ANN Associate Editor
 Posts: 2673 Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City |
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I'd say the manga and the anime are comparable, though definitely different - there are a few places where they diverge completely. And the manga doesn't have that ending theme! Hooray!
More seriously, while the manga does have a definite reverse harem feel to it, it's easier to notice the longer it goes on - the beginning volumes felt more like a music story than a harem one to me. The characters also seem a bit more developed, most notably Shoko, who gets to be part of a friend trio with Kahoko and Nami. There are side stories about characters' pasts as well, which I thought were nice touches. Overall the manga is more developed than the anime. By this point we have finished the anime storyline and are in the 2-episode "Secondo Passo" section. (I actually haven't seen that part, so we may be done with it this volume.) It does look to be going further than they animated, so that's a plus. In all honesty, I never expected to like the manga and was shocked when I did. This volume isn't a great example, but if your local library has it or you can interlibrary loan it from the beginning, I think it's worth a read, especially if you enjoyed the anime at all. I certainly like it better than most other reverse harem manga I've read, though I suppose that could be because I'm a lapsed cellist. 
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st_owly
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The art has certainly become better since the beginning of the series. Even the artist says in a sidebar somewhere in the series that she can barely bring herself to look at volume 1 any more. It's not as sparkly as a lot of shojo art, which is nice. Yuki Kure is also one of a very few mangaka I can think of who can draw violins and other instruments properly (Tomoko Ninomiya being the only other) If I remember rightly, there are some more musical events after the end of the contest. I think there's something at the school festival or something. Towards the end, the series definitely starts focusing on spoiler[LenxKahoko] which I think is better than the ending of the anime. This manga adaption is definitely far superior than the adaption of Harukanaru Toki no Naka de, the other well known NeoRomance game.
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