Manga Review: Good Ending

Title : GOOD ENDING /GE

Japanese title : 〜グッドエンディング〜

Category : manga

Mangaka : SASUGA Kei (author n artist)

Original Publisher : Kodansha

Genre : school life, romance, comedy (+ a little echi and harem i think^^)

Status : on going (last chapter I read chapter 60)

Year published : 2009

Summary: (from some sites)

A follow-up to a heavy response to the original yomi-kiri manga by the same title, published 4 months ago. (before the series was announced)
Good ending follows the main character Utsuki 's interactions with Kurokawa Yuki, a member of the school tennis team, in order for Utsuki to confess his feelings to the captain of the tennis team. It is implied that the title of the manga is derived from the "good endings" that are achieved in visual novels. Although the story was once concluded in the yomi-kiri version, the full version includes identical characters and settings.

Nice to know: Yomi-kiri mean short story or usually called one shot, before u can start a series usually a mangaka write and submit a yomi-kiri, well, not always^^

My perspective:

i start to read the series before I read the One-shot version, it was one of the best romance manga I read so far, well the drawings are good, the plot is interesting (well I can't wait till the next chapter published^^)This story mainly filled with romance (of course!!), with some light comedies. Well I do love a romantic stories, so I love this manga, even though sometimes the story make me frustrated. well lets head to the character section^^

Characters:

Seiji Utsumi

well, main character of this manga is our average type of character,stupid, shy, and not good at sport. He have a stupid bad habit every time he face a problem : RUN AWAY!

At the first he was in love with his senpai who is the leader of tennis club, but he don't have the courage to tell her and ends up only watching her from a distance. He later begins to gain self confidence through the help of his new friend Kurokawa Yuki. He is finally able to approach his love interest Iketani Shou after being tricked to join the tennis club. But later, he fall in love with Yuki, and try his best to finds out about yuki's scar of the past. In the lastest chapter I read, he is very close to be able to convey his feeling, but I think it will take some time, since the mangaka don't want to finish this manga yet ( I think^^). Sometimes Utsumi-kun kindness makes Yuki jealous, even though he doesn't mean it (well, I know its hard to live as a popular person^^), he work in a fast-food restaurant.

Yuki Kurokawa

A classmate of Utsumi and a member of tennis club. One of the famous beauty in school, and very smart too ( waw, my fav type^^) At first she think that Utsumi just a perverted peeping tom.

She decided to help Utsumi after finding out that he likes her senior in the tennis club (I finds a lot of love problem in my real life T-T, I hope I met someone like her too *pray*). Yuki actually holds emotional scars from her past that make her unable to love. She help Utsumi in order to believe in love again, and both of them gradually getting closer each other, and Yuki feels in love with Utsumi too.Utsumi already promise that he will tell his true feeling in proper way
But the mangaka still not reveal what kind of event that create her scars, well I'll wait for it^^.

Shou Iketani

A very cute girl that Utsumi first fall in love with.A senior of Utsumi and Yuki, the leader of tennis club. Actually cannot play tennis well.

A very clumsy person, but have unlimited amount of stamina, haha...

This girl have a problem with her "flat" boobs too (wew DFC^^). She is a very loyal and devoted girl too, not only toward tennis, but to a person who she love to. Actually Utsumi almost "success" on the his first try, but she once tricked by her past love and reject Utsumi. Later, she regret it, because by the time she fall in love with Utsumi, Utsumi already fall in love with Yuki, and she must give up on him (how sad T-T)

Oonuma Risa

A Junior that work in the same restaurant with Utsumi, at first, I think she is a very rude girl, but it turn out that she is just a very shy and don't have enough courage to talk to other person. Actually she is very shy because in the past (before met utsumi) she used to be a very fat woman, but she now she become a very sexy woman with great boobs (that make shou-senpai feel depressed, hehe). Because she become so much thinner, she unable to use her old clothes and force her little sister to lend her clothes to her

she fall in love with Utsumi-kun, and realized that Utsumi was fall in love in Yuki as well, but she say that she will no give up no matter what... (what a tough girl), She is a very honest person, and clumsy too sometimes. Since she appear in this story, Yuki began to show Utsumi her jealous feelings (I think it's cute), and because in later story shou-senpai give up on Utsumi, she become the last one yuki's love rival.... (it scary to have a rival that will no give up no matter what)

Izumo-kun and Kouno-kun

this two guys are classmate n best friend of Utsumi-kun, from left: Izumi-kun, he one of womanizer in their school, and Kouno-kun, a perverted guy, well no much to tell, coz they don't appeared as often as other characters in this story

Closing:

well thats all folks lol I'll wait for the next chapter, if there is new things, I'll updated this post, hope you all find your own good ending of your life...... see you in the next post....

nb: hi all, I decided to write a manga review, bcoz of my circumstances I can't download any anime start from August (T-T), and I'm so busy doing my campus things, so I'm only able to follow some manga now, for anime, maybe next year (hopefully^^)