{"id":1228,"date":"2007-10-13T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2007-10-13T19:06:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T19:06:33","slug":"kare-kano-his-and-her-circumstances-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/13\/kare-kano-his-and-her-circumstances-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Masami Tsuda<\/strong> (TokyoPop)<br \/>\nISBN 1-59182-485-0<\/p>\n<p>Soichiro Arima is a good looking, over-achieving boy who has just moved to a new school. Normally that wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be a bad thing but Yukino Miyazawa is already the perfect student. Pretty, athletic and super-competitive, she is the school&#8217;s number one student, the last thing she wants is some Johnny-come-lately stealing her glory. She also doesn&#8217;t want to like him. Yet she can&#8217;t stop herself and that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153like\u00e2\u20ac\u009d might be turning into something stronger\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>This is well drawn if oddly confused and meandering school romance story in the Japanese Shojo tradition (&#8216;stories for girls&#8217;). It&#8217;s full of the misunderstandings, confusions and little victories and defeats that define these always-evolving, never-resolving storylines. Competent and engaging for the gentle-hearted, there is nevertheless an odd quirk in this volume.<\/p>\n<p>After concentrating on Soichiro and Yukino, the book suddenly diverts to another young romance; that of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153plain-Jane\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Koharu and cool bad-boy Toshiro Sakajo, with a promise to return to the main cast in the next volume, which means that this is a book that has not one but two unfinished tales. It&#8217;s just like a damned soap op\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. oh wait\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I get it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Although not really my cup of tea, this is a good graphic equivalent to those interminable dramas that teens seem to thrive on and if that equates to more comic readers I&#8217;m all in favour (even if I am a soured old prune who doesn&#8217;t remember first love and never had a heart to break in the first place\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6)<\/p>\n<p>This book is printed in the &#8216;read-from-back-to-front&#8217; manga format.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1994 Masami Tsuda. All Rights Reserved. English text \u00c2\u00a9 2003 TOKYOPOP Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Masami Tsuda (TokyoPop) ISBN 1-59182-485-0 Soichiro Arima is a good looking, over-achieving boy who has just moved to a new school. Normally that wouldn&#8217;t necessarily be a bad thing but Yukino Miyazawa is already the perfect student. Pretty, athletic and super-competitive, she is the school&#8217;s number one student, the last thing she wants is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/13\/kare-kano-his-and-her-circumstances-vol-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-jO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}