Beauty is the Beast

Ok. It's the humor that got me reading this to the end. Yeah yeah... I'm tired of shoujo stuff: girl's not pretty at first, perfect guy falls for her, tells corny stuff and says "she's mine", coincidences, blah blah...

I do not believe that love is an accident. I do not believe in "falling in love", love at first sight, love is blind... tah tah tah. Love is not accidental, it isn't just about the good qualities of a person as even the most rotten people in society can have someone love them though not "like" them at all. To love someone is to love them as a whole...as what they are. To love someone is to love one for eternity. No one possesses anyone as in love, people get to be free to be themselves and are absolutely free to be what they want to be without anyone ordering them around to do this and that. Love isn't possessive and obsessive at all. I don't understand why people find it "sexy" when a man yells "SHE'S MINE!!!". There's no way women would want to be caged.

Even if your loved ones looks like rotten eggs, love wouldn't wither if you really love them. It is for eternity. Well, enough of the love talk.

OK, so Beauty turns out to be the beast... hahaha. I loved the story as it didn't make me expect the things I expect of a heroine in a shoujo manga. I loved the characters especially the heroine, Eimi. She was quite the cute character... childish, innocent, honest, naive, and eccentric in a nice way. hahaha. Well, she's a country folk who isn't your average heroine unlike the damsel-in-distress heroines who wait for their prince and do nothing but get kidnapped and cry a lot. I love the fact that the artist gave a chance for the "other side" to pursue the heroine. At some point, I'd want the guy who is least likely to end up with the heroine to claim victory...but the story's ending is not in my hands of course. hahaha

I often judge the story from the cover. If the cover has too much detail and decorations with the characters drawn too big and sparkly, I can tell that it seems pretty desperate in trying to catch the eye of a potential reader. I somehow get the feeling that the plot may be too bad that it actually needs a bait too sparkly to get the attention of people. Well, it's part of business but I prefer a straight-forward, non-sparkly cover over too harassed covered mangas. Beauty is the Beast was rather lovely and organized in their covers.

The lighthearted plot's the BEST! I thought the male protagonist's past is too dark. Well, it is a bit dark and sad but it's a-ok. This manga wasn't dwelling too much on the past's details and that's what I like about it. The comedy's clean and lighthearted. Hahaha. I really love Eimi's character. She carries on the comedic relief too well.

Well, it was lighthearted and funny to the end that I don't even mind if they deleted the romance from the story and made it into a comedy, seinen, school-life, shoujo category.

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