Cuori Colpiti by George Asakura
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I finally found and buy it. Well, 6,90 euro for each volume but it's awesome.
First of all edition; Flashbook makes a masterpiece! It' an huge volume, with metallic appications on the title, hardcover and dust jacket, color pages. It's really a beauty and, inside, the volume, the pages, made with optimum paper, looks really good.
About the story; vanguard shoujo manga is becoming one of my favourite gill. George Asakura is a fabolous storyteller. No, not storyteller, it's a trueteller. She is awesome when she is describing the secsual world of Japanese teenages. She is not hypotric, she sais anything, but not for morbous way. And it's sad but not tragic, there's a positive way of thinking, after all. Other mangaka of this gill are more pessimist but Asakura sensei is realistic, but she is able to see hope, in everyday life.
About style it's of course vanguard, but so much "normal" if you compare it with Moyoko Anno or Nanan one. And it's so pretty and aetereus.
George Asakura is a genius about the wat to tell the story. At first seems a collection of oneshots, but after that you undestand that it's a story narrated in no-chronological way and with the point of view of various characters. Only after reading all the two volumes, you understand at all the psycological figure of the protagonists. Ah, about the cover; nothing in common with "LIFE", there aren't emos or people who wants to cut theyselves.