Strobe Edge (review by nekochan)

Japanese: ストロボ・エッジ
English: Strobe Edge

You might dislike it at the start but you'll most probably like it before you end reading the 1st chapter.

nekoRATING : 5/5

Status: COMPLETED 10 volumes 39 chapters
English translated version: COMPLETED

Released: 2007  
Artist/Author: Sakisaka Io  
Genre: Comedy*well blended!*, Drama*nods*, Romance*nods*, School Life*nods*, Shoujo*nods*, Slice Of Life*nods*
Source: http://mangafox.me

Main characters: Kinoshita Ninako and Ichinose Ren

Nekochan's review starts now...

*SPOILER ALERT!* 

For the female lead, Kinoshita Ninako...has a STRONG heart. She loves wholeheartedly. She remains a good girl and an ideal lover in spite of loving a guy who likes another girl. At the start, she appears annoying, not because she's loud but because she's easily influenced. Good thing that it's not too long when she can finally stand on her own. She's not the shy type of lover. She really gets all the chance to talk to her love.

Bias much? (≧∇≦)ノ＿彡☆バンバン！!

For the male lead, Ichonose Ren...another quiet and cool type of male lead but has one of the most beautiful face among all the other male characters I've encountered! He's too nice that he tends to pschologically torture himself just for the convinience of the other. Anyway, he's mature! I love it (him♥ ♥ ♥)! 

The storyline/story:
Good pace.
You can really see the development of LOVE.
One thing that I like about this story is that it did not start with love/attraction at first sight.
They undergone denial, acceptance, confrontation, rejection, moving on (which is really nice), struggles, and resolution.

Oh, yeah. I remembered the 1st scene! I now wonder about its connection with the story. Maybe I'm shallow. :P 

The title:
I don't know why it's the title.
Strobe "is a device used to produce regular flashes of light. Larger strobe lights can be used in “continuous” mode, producing extremely intense illumination." - http://en.wikipedia.org 
If you know, please tell me~ （*＾＾）＾*）

The Art:
It's beautiful. It has nice backgrounds and settings.
With the characters, you can clearly define who's who.
Ren really looks and acts like a high schooler, compared to other characters from other mangas who look like college students or business men. However, Kinoshita looks young for her age, but I don't think it's an inconvinience; her doings are still approriate from her age.

At the start, I was really confused. I was having trouble looking at them as high schoolers as they act like grade schoolers.

What's in this manga common in other mangas I've read(so far, I've read 29 mangas, including this one):
Popular male lead
Unpopular female lead

What made an impression on me:
It's the first time a character had a pimple!
The emphasis on the characters. <- usually, when supporting characters get involve, you can also find the main characters on the same scene, right?
I like the dialogues.
One of the characters pouts a lot at the start of the story. I was kinda annoyed. (･_･ )

My thoughts about the ending:
To read, highlight from here to ☆. Don't highlight if you refuse to read.

It was not like popping a balloon. It did not end in just a snap. Readers will  be absorbed by the characters' happiness. (≧∇≦)

☆

What else?
(*≧▽≦) It's really entertaining ♫





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