{Not Spoiler Free}
One of the simple joys in my life is the joy of reading complete manga. You know why? Because then I don't have to worry about cliff hangers and have to keep 20+ tabs open on my phone just for manga. I don't let people use my phone for this reason. It's quite embarrassing having to explain your obsession with other people who don't understand.
So I came across this manga by accident because I was searching through one shot manga (refer to my love for completed manga) even though this one clearly wasn't a one shot. It's a relatively short manga with around 47 chapters, not including the sections where the author includes recipe. Yes this manga does indeed provide the readers with the recipe to recreate every single thing made in the series which I found to be a nice touch.
This is a bit of an old school manga mostly because it is from 2005-2008, so the eyes are really really big which can get a little scary after a while. Big eyes are cute but this was a little too much.
The story itself was okay. It kind of reminded me of Nisekoi where the main character has a treasured item and spend their whole lives fixated on finding the one who gave it t them, in this case Najika's spoon and her Flan Prince. At first this was a really cute story. Najika was bullied by the most popular girl in school over a boy and then later became friends by said popular girl Akane. The fact that the author humanized Akane by displaying her humanity and weakness as a normal person striving for perfection was really touching. The author didn't have to show Akane having an eating disorder, but I think personally that was a really nice touch to humanize her.
My favorite character is Hagio-sensei. She's such a cute old lady and is always so supportive of Najika. Her presence in the manga is so soothing and when the setting is at Lavender House I inwardly sigh in satisfaction.
Since this was a shoujo manga, romance was to be expected. However, did it have to be like this? Did Sora really have to die? Couldn't she just have realized that her feelings were for Daichi instead somehow? Did they really have to kill off the princely character? No. But they did. I think all three of the guys were kind of similar. Daichi was a bit of a tsundere, Sora was the mature, prince, and Seiya was stuck up which makes them all different. But I felt like they were still vaguely similar. Maybe it was just me reading this manga late at night or what but I just got that impression of similarity.
The fact that the manga ended with Daichi as the Flan Prince made the story feel really satisfying and full circle. It wasn't the best manga I've ever read by any means, but it was still fairly good. Mostly I just liked the fact that it was a cooking/baking manga. I feel like we need more of these in the anime/manga community. Props to the author for this culinary piece and adding to the culinary section of the manga/anime world.
Awh just look at these two!! Just look at them!!!
Still secretly happy that she ended up with Daichi even though it was only through Sora dying that the ship sailed.
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