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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Crimson Hero, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Okay, so the way I read this manga is I read it in Shojo Beat, a magazine of manga being published in America. At first I refused to read it because I thought, "Ew, volleyball? A sports story? No way, Jose!" But then I was bored one day and decided to check it out and it was actually good! (One of the main reasons I refused to read it was because I thought the main character was too guy-like. Turns out, the person I thought was too guy-like WAS a guy... Hmmm...) But no, the main character is actually a girl and despite it being about volleyball, this is still shojo and doesn't absolutely FOCUS on volleyball action like you'd expect it to if it were shonen. The characters are still nice and the only reason I'm only giving it four stars is because the artwork is a little dodgy when it comes to faces and three-quarter profiles. But it IS a good story!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Inspiring, and a nice departure from the usual shojo storylines,
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This review is from: Crimson Hero, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Nobara's life consists entirely of volleyball. No, that's not totally true. Lately, Nobara's life has consisted entirely of trying to play volleyball.
Nobara loves volleyball and is an excellent player who receives much praise. However, that doesn't go over well with her mother. Her mother has old-fashioned opinions of girls and how they should act: docile, quiet, pretty. Sports for girls? Never. Nobara has to fight against this ignorance, but since it's her own mother, there's not much she can do. In fact, her mother does much more than quietly disapprove. She does what she can to get her daughter to quit the sport altogether. She even despises the fact Nobara has cut her hair so short she gets mistaken for a boy. Nobara's aunt doesn't act in a way her mother deems appropriate, so the aunt has been pretty much cut out of the family. Clearly, it's her mother's way or no way. Things get even worse at school. The girls' volleyball team--which Nobara wanted to join so badly--has been disbanded. This happened in part because the team wasn't doing so well...and in part because her own mother used bribery to finish the team off. That's how much she doesn't want Nobara to take part in the game she loves. Nobara tries to join the boys' volleyball team. Unfortunately, they won't let her join, so there's another dead end there. Things get worse at home and she ends up moving out. She tries to live with her aunt, the school's nurse, and instead gets a job as the dorm mother for the boys' volleyball team. Cooking and cleaning for volleyball players is definitely not what she wants in life. In the meantime, she's putting out flyers and trying to reestablish the girls' volleyball team. A lot of shojo titles (though clearly not all) center around romantic themes. There's certainly nothing wrong with this, but it's nice to have a change of pace. There are some romantic elements in Crimson Hero (Nobara and a boy at her school clearly like each other), but the main plot is Nobara's gung-ho attitude about making her dreams come true. That's really great to see. She's a spunky, strong-willed character, the type I'd like to see more often in shojo titles. There are times when she gets really down, but she keeps going for her goal. In that sense, it's an inspiration to teens--and everyone else. -- Danica Davidson
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Crimson Hero, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
I absolutly love this this manga. It is the best one that I have ever read. I first read it in the magazine ShojoBeat that a frind of mine ownes. Out of all the different types of manga's in the intire magazine, Crimson Hero is my absolute favorite one. I can't wait till I get the rest of the series.
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