Customer Reviews

The Day Of Revolution Volume 2 (v. 2)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Fans of yaoi will like this similarly themed storyline of a guy turned girl via surgery. (Ok, so it's not "real" yaoi, but it's themed along those lines.) Those who aren't yaoi fans can also enjoy this series as it can be seen as "yaoi-light".

The second volume picks up shortly after the first volume where Kei has announced that he wishes to stay with Makoto due to her fear of men. What she doesn't know is that Makoto has a cute younger brother who appeals to both her masculine & feminine sides at once. Finding a nice match doesn't mean happily ever after as Kei's four guy friends are bound & determined that no one will win her hand but one or all of them!

The storyline in this volume is much slower than the first volume, which is a good change. The first volume was fun but packed quite a bit of storyline into one volume. (It could easily have been made into a 3 volume series!) The introduction of Megumi's brother is a nice solution to the problem of who she'll end up with & as such, he has far more character depth than the other guys who still suffer from not being fully fleshed out. (No more detail other than the bare minimum is given out about these guys.) Still, the manga is left rather open-ended will will frustrate some. There's enough of an ending where you won't be completely disappointed, but it's not concrete enough to satisfy every fan out there.

I hate yaoi but this is one of my favorite manga.
It's about a girl who through genetic defect has all the "bits" (read Inter Sexuality for a manga that goes really in depth on the subject)
When he finds out she's actually a she, she gets the "bits" removed and commences among much hilarity to live out the rest of her life as a girl.

I'll start off by saying the good things about this volume; the artist is wonderful, with character designs that are truly wonderful to behold. Not a lot of detail in the backgrounds, but the characters portray their roles very well.

Now the bad. This manga fails, in my opinion, because of one key problem. That is the lack of developing relationships. What I mean by this, is that this manga is about the relationships between Megumi, the 4 boy-squad, and Mikato who gets introduced in this volume. However, the 4 boys only show up to try to ruin Megumi's relationship with Mikato. They never try to seriously compete for her, despite that being their stated intention.

The relationship between Mikato and Megumi is supposed to be the main event, yet the mangaka (for some reason I cannot possibly hope to understand) decided to completely omit 2 full years of their relationship. Mikato gives his confession, and then.... nothing. The mangaka simply states that 2 years pass while they've been going out. Suddenly the 4boys are graduated, Megumi's hair is longer... but that's it. Megumi's entire 2nd year, and who knows how much of her third year in high school, pass by without incident? This is no way to write a romance.

Not only that, but the 4 boy squad... for some reason they never, ever try to make an advance on Megumi/Kei individually. They're always, always in a group. And for being so popular with the girls, there's no mention of them being involved with other girls. Yet they're obsessed with keeping Megumi available for themselves. Not only is this nonsensical, it's actually very pathetic. If they had relationships with other girls, this could affect how Megumi might see them, and thus have opened the door to more depth in the story there. But it's just another example of how shallow this manga goes.

This story had a lot of potential. But unfortunately it was never realized. I'm wondering if the editors really had something against the mangaka and cut most of the content.. that's seriously what it feels like.

I've given it a 2star instead of a 1star simply because I love the character designs and the clean artwork. The rest of it is too much of a disappointment.

I am fairly new to the MANGA world. The Day of Revolution is only the Second Series I have read, but so far it has the more intriguing story line.

The story revolves around the main character Kei. Kei is in high school and is one of the more popular boys in school. He is loved by both girls and his friends alike. His friends constantly tease him about how efeminate he is.

Anyway, one day he collapses after his friends tease him. After tests are done, the doctor informs Kei that he is in fact a she. Faced with this news Kei decides to live his life as a girl.

Now Kei is Megumi, with his change into a girl he has re established his non existant relationship with his father, and his mother loves her new daughter. After explaining himself to the school system, Megumi is reinstated as a freshman... at the same school he attended when he was Kei. Along with her coach, Makoto, Megumi adjusts to living as a school girl.

Megumi tries her hardest to draw as little attention to herself as possible, but her secret is quickly discovered by her former friends, who are glad to see their friend. However they also decide that they all want Megumi as their girlfriend.

Megumi after almost being raped by a former rival, decides that she wants to stay with Makoto, and be protected by her.

Thus begins the second volume of Day of Revolution.

In the second installment Megumi is holding to her guns that she wants to be with Makoto... Until, that is, she meets Makoto's little brother, Mikoto. Mikoto, is just like the former Kei, more efeminate, and constantly getting harrassed by his male counterparts. Megumi becomes close to Mikoto, and begins to "blossom" as Makoto puts it, when she is with Mikoto.

The story continues, but you just have to read for yourself how it ends

This manga, while no yaoi, I still believe is suitable for almost any type of romance fan. Though the main character is technically a girl, I feel that both Non-Yaoi and Yaoi fans will enjoy it, if only for the comedic value.

In volume one, it is still easy to see Megumi as a male, Volume two however, goes on to show how she's evolved and gradually dealt with being forced to become more feminine. Adding in Mikoto, I find it delightfully cute and rather sweet. (I also recommend reading Princess Princess if you are a fan of this work. Mikoto plays an adorable cameo, and though Princess Princess is aimed at mostly BL fans, it is also acceptable for other manga fans.)

In total, I found this manga to be fun and lighthearted, exactly the type of manga I was in need of. The gender-bending element is there to simply make it more fun and insane. Though the ending of this volume could have been better, I do believe there is a volume three, though unconfirmed.

Excelleng manga I would recomend this to anybody a very thoughtfull story and very well done, I only wiss the author whould have continue this story to its logical end.