Ao Haru Ride / Blue Spring Ride
Sep. 21st, 2020 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
satalasers Hm. Didn't like this one quite as much as Strobe Edge. I think it might have been because I read the first quarter a couple of months ago, and instead of starting over, I just continued from where I left off. That might have impacted my feelings a bit TBH.
- For example, I don't like Kou. I don't like the main ship. Kou/Futaba is not a good ship for me, I think. While Ren/Ninako won me over, I really couldn't say the same for Kou. I just got frustrated with Kou, and okay, the Kou/Yui subplot also did not help, but by the damage had been done.
- I liked Futaba, and the growth she went through. And how she questioned why she liked Kou, and if she was just falling into old habits, and trying to move past the relationship. I wish -- I truly wish she had moved on TBH.
- I really liked Touma. I wanted Futaba to end with him, and FFS. it never happens. This really is Andou/Ninako all over again. I don't know why Io Sakisaka keeps on making second leads more appealing than the main leads, but like? She does! Every time! (At least I rooted for R/N the last time around.)
- I don't mind the side couples. Like, mm, I don't particularly mind Teacher/Student side romances so long as it's unrequited and onesided on the student's end? The second it's the other way around, or it's actually mutual I'm... less enthused by it, and this manga is kind of edges the line. I actually really liked Shuuko, and how she got over her crush, and falls in love with Komimato, who thinks she's the coolest thing ever, and how you get reaction shots of her slowly returning his feelings and being affected by his proclamations.
- TBH, I didn't care that much about Yuuri and Uchimiya, but it's nice they had a drama free relationship all the same.
- I don't think Yui was handled well at all.
- I can barely remember the early chapters, but I do think I enjoyed that sense of wanting to fit in, plus the conflict of being true yourself and wanting genuine friends felt very true to high school life. TBH, I do think it's a theme that stuck throughout the manga, but, I don't know if it continued quite as well later on.
- There were some similar beats to Strobe Edge, which I guess I don't mind. They irked me more this time around than in the previous manga, though I wonder if that's because I wasn't aware that they were going to be recurring things in this one.
I guess overall, I'd rank this a 7/10. It didn't quite capture my heart the way I wanted to, and rooting against the main couple is never really a good sign, but it had it's moments.
Now I just have to read Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare, and I'll be done with Io Sakisaka's works.
- For example, I don't like Kou. I don't like the main ship. Kou/Futaba is not a good ship for me, I think. While Ren/Ninako won me over, I really couldn't say the same for Kou. I just got frustrated with Kou, and okay, the Kou/Yui subplot also did not help, but by the damage had been done.
- I liked Futaba, and the growth she went through. And how she questioned why she liked Kou, and if she was just falling into old habits, and trying to move past the relationship. I wish -- I truly wish she had moved on TBH.
- I really liked Touma. I wanted Futaba to end with him, and FFS. it never happens. This really is Andou/Ninako all over again. I don't know why Io Sakisaka keeps on making second leads more appealing than the main leads, but like? She does! Every time! (At least I rooted for R/N the last time around.)
- I don't mind the side couples. Like, mm, I don't particularly mind Teacher/Student side romances so long as it's unrequited and onesided on the student's end? The second it's the other way around, or it's actually mutual I'm... less enthused by it, and this manga is kind of edges the line. I actually really liked Shuuko, and how she got over her crush, and falls in love with Komimato, who thinks she's the coolest thing ever, and how you get reaction shots of her slowly returning his feelings and being affected by his proclamations.
- TBH, I didn't care that much about Yuuri and Uchimiya, but it's nice they had a drama free relationship all the same.
- I don't think Yui was handled well at all.
- I can barely remember the early chapters, but I do think I enjoyed that sense of wanting to fit in, plus the conflict of being true yourself and wanting genuine friends felt very true to high school life. TBH, I do think it's a theme that stuck throughout the manga, but, I don't know if it continued quite as well later on.
- There were some similar beats to Strobe Edge, which I guess I don't mind. They irked me more this time around than in the previous manga, though I wonder if that's because I wasn't aware that they were going to be recurring things in this one.
I guess overall, I'd rank this a 7/10. It didn't quite capture my heart the way I wanted to, and rooting against the main couple is never really a good sign, but it had it's moments.
Now I just have to read Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare, and I'll be done with Io Sakisaka's works.
