Yumemiru Taiyou review

KyasutoNaito2
Apr 03, 2021
Should have titled it Unrequited Love, the Manga.

If you're a fan of cliche shoujo manga, like me, then you'll probably have seen every trick in the book. (Or, manga, I guess.)

If you're that person, it'd be fine to skip this. It's very predictable, and that's fine, but it's also a longer read, which makes the cliches even more tedious to get through. Worse than that, they repeat the same cliche to a fault.

Characters are pretty dynamic, but the main-protagonist is flat, being a super typical shoujo heroine, and conflicts feel recycled, failing to make much of an impact.

Specifically, the whole "unrequited love" cliche happened to like 5 different people, like a chain of love sick homies. (Man, that sucks.) Seeing this pattern arise makes reading this story tedious.

[Sidenote: Since this is a peeve of mine.]
The 3 leading love interests treat our protagonist, Shimana, like a sort of trophy to be passed on for most of the manga, completely disregarding how she felt continuously.
[Maybe you care about details like this. I do when it's shown so bluntly.]

I think romances in manga are only as good as the obstacles the couples overcome. How much I like the protagonist affects my reading experience heavily too.

The premise in the beginning was intriguing and it lead me to believe I was going to be following every character's journey in finding their higher purpose, fulfillment, becoming more layered characters that have interests other than who they're crushing on. (Ex: Kyoko's Skip Beat, Yona's Akatsuki No Yona)

And, (sorta spoiler), in the end, the main protagonist never really finds a career or dream for herself.

Other than this, its strong points are nice art and mostly lovable characters. (6/10)

If you found yourself agreeing to some of these statements, maybe it would be fine to skip this one.
It wasn't terrible, like I'm making it seem, but it was super average. Go read Orange instead.
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Yumemiru Taiyou
Yumemiru Taiyou
Auteur Takano, Ichigo
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