This volume earns the series' Older Teen rating from Tokyopop with the introduction of a teenage runaway prostitute and the love hotel with an hourly rate. Karin is as clumsy as ever, thinking she can control her instinct to attack humans with blood flavored by misfortune by bringing Kenta lunches to keep him happy. After having witnessed Karin attack his mother, Kenta is ALMOST sure Karin is a vampire, but he's more concerned with his mother's change in personality. The art is still cute without being cutesy, and even with all the vampire attacks I had to wonder why it's was classified as horror.
While my wife is the one who owns this series, I've read it just as many times as she has - it's just that good.
This series is a beautiful supernatural romantic comedy/drama. It has frequent moments of intense hilarity, yet treats very mature topics (poverty, fatherlessness, isolation, rejection, loss of a family - and of course REAL romantic love) with all due seriousness.
Karin (the female lead) is one of my favorite "top-heavy" (ahem) ditzy manga heroines, in no small part because the author never puts her in anything more revealing than slightly tight turtlenecks. Modest heroines are a rarity in manga, sadly.
The male lead, Kenta, ranks right up there with Keiichi Morisato (of Oh My Goddess) and Yusaku Godai (of Maison Ikkoku) as a normal but GOOD man who works hard both to find his place in the world and to win the heart of the woman he loves. (So, if you're a man and enjoy either of those series, you'll love this one!)
The main story is 12 volumes, every one of them worth reading multiple times. Enjoy!
This series is a beautiful supernatural romantic comedy/drama. It has frequent moments of intense hilarity, yet treats very mature topics (poverty, fatherlessness, isolation, rejection, loss of a family - and of course REAL romantic love) with all due seriousness.
Karin (the female lead) is one of my favorite "top-heavy" (ahem) ditzy manga heroines, in no small part because the author never puts her in anything more revealing than slightly tight turtlenecks. Modest heroines are a rarity in manga, sadly.
The male lead, Kenta, ranks right up there with Keiichi Morisato (of Oh My Goddess) and Yusaku Godai (of Maison Ikkoku) as a normal but GOOD man who works hard both to find his place in the world and to win the heart of the woman he loves. (So, if you're a man and enjoy either of those series, you'll love this one!)
The main story is 12 volumes, every one of them worth reading multiple times. Enjoy!
