Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa - Harisugawa in Mirror World
Title: Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa - Harisugawa in Mirror World
Type: Manga
Artist(s): KANO Yasuhiro
Status in Home Country: Ongoing - 0 Volumes
Scanslation Status : Ongoing, Ch 3+
Scan Groups: Red Hawk Scanlations
Genre(s): Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
Summary: "Boys are creatures whose sight will follow the girl they like wherever she is. And if there it comes the chance that the boy realizes that the girl is in danger, if he is able to save her they will feel the ultimate bliss in life" is something that Harisugawa Tetsu has pointed out, and true enough he has always been following with his eyes the girl named Satomi Mao.
Thanks to certain details in their childhood, Satomi has always been friendly with Harisugawa and she has a friendly budding relationship, completely unaware of Tetsu's feelings for her. Tetsu for his part preferred to play the friend part and keeps his feelings hidden for the sake of not endangering the closeness that they already have, ever since he was young Tetsu had believed that if he can build little by little a good relationship with Mao, he will get to the point where he can confidently confess to Mao and not get rejected, Tetsu has always been waiting for his one true chance without getting too close to Mao by accident.
At first it seems that this "stalemate" will never be broken; however, one day Mao sees a strange mirror in an thrift store and for some reason she feels that she must have that mirror. Mao buys the mirror without thinking twice about it.... But she is completely unaware that the mirror will change forever Tetsu's life as well as her own.
Review: There's something about shounen romances that always portray the males as doormats for the heroine that I find really distasteful at times. A boy follows a girl to a school posing as her best friend when he is secretly head over heels in love w/ her. He's afraid of confessing to her because they will no be friends then, so he's resigned to keep his love a secret and protect her silently by her side. It really annoyed me that Tetsu is constantly being bullied and beat up due to his friendship and protection of Harisugawa, but the popular girl is so dense that she doesn't realize it.
Harisugawa buys a special mirror, and when the ditz almost gets killed in a car accident, Tetsu saves her only to be killed. We end up learning that he's not quite dead as he gets sucked into the mirror and can speak to her via the mirror. However, he can occasionally get out if he switches places w/ her. But being the sacrificial doormat shounen hero he is, he opts to stay in the mirror permanently and quits school to do so. It's so lame that this guy is quits school for this unappreciative airhead. I don't even think the ramifications of quitting school has even entered either of their boneheaded minds. The plot relies heavily on ecchi scenes to keep the audience interested. After 3 chapters, I'm not sure if there will be any true villains or epic battles in the future, but it looks like for now it's more or less about slice of life type of stuff w/ Testu helping out the ditzy heroine in her time of need.
A very distaste plot and character portrayal. The artwork is good, but that's about the only redeeming thing I can say about this series. Definitely, not a series I want to stay updated on it.
Rate: 2/10
Type: Manga
Artist(s): KANO Yasuhiro
Status in Home Country: Ongoing - 0 Volumes
Scanslation Status : Ongoing, Ch 3+
Scan Groups: Red Hawk Scanlations
Genre(s): Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Supernatural
Summary: "Boys are creatures whose sight will follow the girl they like wherever she is. And if there it comes the chance that the boy realizes that the girl is in danger, if he is able to save her they will feel the ultimate bliss in life" is something that Harisugawa Tetsu has pointed out, and true enough he has always been following with his eyes the girl named Satomi Mao.
Thanks to certain details in their childhood, Satomi has always been friendly with Harisugawa and she has a friendly budding relationship, completely unaware of Tetsu's feelings for her. Tetsu for his part preferred to play the friend part and keeps his feelings hidden for the sake of not endangering the closeness that they already have, ever since he was young Tetsu had believed that if he can build little by little a good relationship with Mao, he will get to the point where he can confidently confess to Mao and not get rejected, Tetsu has always been waiting for his one true chance without getting too close to Mao by accident.
At first it seems that this "stalemate" will never be broken; however, one day Mao sees a strange mirror in an thrift store and for some reason she feels that she must have that mirror. Mao buys the mirror without thinking twice about it.... But she is completely unaware that the mirror will change forever Tetsu's life as well as her own.
Review: There's something about shounen romances that always portray the males as doormats for the heroine that I find really distasteful at times. A boy follows a girl to a school posing as her best friend when he is secretly head over heels in love w/ her. He's afraid of confessing to her because they will no be friends then, so he's resigned to keep his love a secret and protect her silently by her side. It really annoyed me that Tetsu is constantly being bullied and beat up due to his friendship and protection of Harisugawa, but the popular girl is so dense that she doesn't realize it.
Harisugawa buys a special mirror, and when the ditz almost gets killed in a car accident, Tetsu saves her only to be killed. We end up learning that he's not quite dead as he gets sucked into the mirror and can speak to her via the mirror. However, he can occasionally get out if he switches places w/ her. But being the sacrificial doormat shounen hero he is, he opts to stay in the mirror permanently and quits school to do so. It's so lame that this guy is quits school for this unappreciative airhead. I don't even think the ramifications of quitting school has even entered either of their boneheaded minds. The plot relies heavily on ecchi scenes to keep the audience interested. After 3 chapters, I'm not sure if there will be any true villains or epic battles in the future, but it looks like for now it's more or less about slice of life type of stuff w/ Testu helping out the ditzy heroine in her time of need.
A very distaste plot and character portrayal. The artwork is good, but that's about the only redeeming thing I can say about this series. Definitely, not a series I want to stay updated on it.
Rate: 2/10