Manga Review 4 Oshiete, Kurogane-kun

I could be absolutely crazy, but I think writing for my blog might be helping me with AP Lit.
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I thought that maybe I wouldn't have time to finish up another manga because manga take obviously a long time to make with all the super long volumes and whatnot. So I decided to introduce the people that read my blog to lots of one-shot/shorter manga for that instant gratification that is sometimes necessary when you're craving a fast manga fix.

I stumbled upon this manga, surprise surprise, on Tumblr. I know, what a shock! But seriously most of the blogs I follow on Tumblr are anime/manga related. Anyways, this manga mostly attracted me because of its short length. I'm in the midst of a lot of unfinished manga and was craving closure.

This manga is comprised of 4 chapters, but each chapter is pretty long with around 50 pages each. The pacing of the manga I would say is pretty slow, but that's okay since it's a slice of life, school life sort of manga. It just fits with the genre. The progression of the story was quite typical of slice of life/school life manga where it has the class trip and the school festival arcs. So all of this was quite typical and mundane. However, it's always the little things that distinguish the meh from the good (I won't say excellent or the like because I believe to have a truly successful plot line with solid character development it has to be a long series). This was quite good. The main distinguishing factor is how cute the two main characters, Hakura and Kurogane, are together. Both of these archetypes have been done before, the antisocial, sadistic guy and the clumsy, ditzy girl. However, Kurogane is quite fun. He enjoys teasing Hakura and the short little scene where Hakura tastes the vanilla extract as he laughs at her is quite fun. It's moments like these which really make the manga cute. The real showstopper is when Hakura confesses for the second time and Kurogane is confused because he had thought they'd been dating since the summer festival. Their realization that the other misunderstood them was adorable. This imperfection and misunderstanding they had made the whole plot more realistic.

Overall, if you're looking for a pretty short read for instant gratification and some fun moments then you should definitely give this one a go. ヾ(￣ー￣ヾ)