Manga Mayhem 42 Wizard's Soul ~Holy War of Love~, Seishun Rikon, Anata ni Hana wo Sasagemashou, Bambi no Tegami

Yikes, so I've just quit my first ever real job kinda dealio and so I've had a bit of time on my hands with which to of course indulge in more manga before school starts. I've read these and I don't particularly feel like they've got quite enough substance to them to write separate posts about them so I thought I'd just mash them all into one just because I can.

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First on the list going chronologically would be Wizard's Soul ~Holy War of Love~. This is a card game manga meant to have a moe moe kind of atmosphere with not a lot going on besides cute girls playing card games. And that's kind of all that goes on. It's got this Chihayafuru vibe to it, only because it has cards tbh, but nonetheless I had to include that thought. They're playing this card game that's apparently based on one that really exists, but as someone not really knowledgable about card games, I'm not sure which one it's based on to be honest. It's set in this alternate world where how good you are at cards determines your place in society. This girl enters one of these card game competitions in order to win money to pay back her father's debt and through playing the game comes to realize that she doesn't actually hate playing the game as much as she thought she did. She originally tried her best at the game with the mindset that if she were to beat her dying mother at one card game she would be able to save her mom from death itself. Ultimately she wasn't able to save her mom which drove her to hating the game. Facing all of these different opponents in the competition, she finally realizes that she likes the game as well. The manga has a good balance of drama, tension, actual card play, and clear narration of what's going on in the game so the reader isn't confused. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was an amazing manga, but it was pretty cute and a bit different from the stuff I usually pick up.

I realized as I was reading that her sister's names together would be ion canon lol which is kinda cute because they're so cute but their names put together would be a weapon

And of course there's a v cute ship

The second manga would be Seishun Rikon. This one was pretty short with 9 chapters and based on the premise of a girl and boy student with the same last name. Their whole class calls them a married couple and the two just accept this, not being too bothered by this. The boy is working on coding a calendar smartphone app to be used by the students at school and involves the girl by enlisting her help to draw a cute mascot for the app. It's a pretty pure manga all around with kind of an open ending hinting that they end up together. Hngh so pure

The third manga was a more supernatural manga with this guy that had nobility but no money and this girl with a lot of money but no status. The two of them are roped into marriage by their families, but really what brings the two together is the curse that the guy is under. There's been a curse on all the male heads of the family for all of them to die young. It's basically the guy and girl and they fall in love and then defeat the curse. It wasn't super special or anything and the characters weren't all that outstanding. I dunno, maybe it was too rushed for 20 chapters or maybe because halfway through it was just about them being in this rushed infatuation stage together. Eh.

The fourth manga was if you just took a manga where the main love interest is that cool edgy bad boy type and the girl has lowkey abandonment issues over a deer and lots of bad luck and put them together and they fall in love. That's all I can say, it was pretty short. LOL I just really like the mangaka and their work in general tbh that's why I read this.

Wow looking at this I'm glad I didn't try to make separate posts on these. Yikes. I guess not every manga can be a gem like Daytime Shooting Star or Blue Spring Ride heh.