As many here, I started KurePara by trying to find something else from Nakamura-sensei after finishing Skip Beat! for the second time (I gotta stop rereading stuff).

Story - 10
The story gave us some shounen in the shoujo scenario. What is basically something awesome, because it has the perfect balance between romance and action. I'm kinda getting tired of all those honey-filled shoujo (aka Kyo, Koi wo Hajimemashite).

It all had the right pace to keep me on the edge of my seat from the very begining.
Nakamura-sensei must had done a lot of research to portrait the yakuza.

Art - 6
This is where I think is the thing that bothered me the most about the manga.
THE HAIR. The main chara Tsukasa's hair just bothered me so much at the beginning that I would stare at the page a long time trying to figure it out. Male lead Ryuji's hair isn't much better also.
Gladly, the art progress is clear, in the end everybody's hair just looked normal. And it seems she really improved her hair drawing as seen in Skip Beat!.

Character - 10
Everyone has a pretty interesting personality, and a complete background that makes perfect sense later.
You can tell everything was planned from the very start, otherwise this would not be possible. (And just awesome mangakas do this.)
A great thing is that we don't have our regular shoujo set up, with the cute tsundere female and the cute misterious male.
I guess is kind the oposite, the main charachter being a genderbender that is an awesome fighter!!!!!
You gotta love Tsukasa.

Enjoyement - 10
I guess I explained everything above.



In the end, REALLY worth it.
If you are looking for action, but without forgetting the romance, this is for you.