Originally posted by Galan007
Like Will, I have thoroughly enjoyed this series. The only thing that was hard for me to buy into at first, was the manga art style. But now that I have been reading it for quite a while, that style seems to best suit this particular book. imo.
Totally agreed
Originally posted by SnakeEyes
I'm continually baffled...
Another thing that totally took me out of the story was the end of the first volume. Throughout the whole thing, it's fairly grounded in reality and then, all of the sudden, Scott gets into a superhuman-esque battle with one of the ex-boyfriends. That whole aspect was totally lame and not consistent with the rest of the story.
I mean if you guys like it... then I GUESS that's cool, but I just can't bring myself to understand why any it's any better than any other mediocre thing out there.
Most of the geeky references I feel are pretty contrived, like the writer's just like "Do you like me yet? Is this hip?" /rant. For now.
Well that's fair enough, in your case it's just a matter of opinion.
Oh and I will add that the end of the first volume, totally agree, ends in such a weird and wacky fashion, that if you don't like it, you certainly won't like the other volumes.
I think what lends itself to it's popularity somewhat is the blend of genres. It's not quite sure if it wants to be a light hearted manga story, a teen bopper drama or an off the wall, action packed adventure, so it ends up being a bit of all of them. There's a reference in there for a large range of demographics and chances are if you like one, you'll probably enjoy the other.
But, hey, obviously opinion is a major contributing factor.