Flower of Life 1
Posted: March 5, 2007 Filed under: Flower of Life 1 Comment »If I tried to describe the plot of this to you, you would think it was boring. In fact, I’m not sure how it DOESN’T manage to be boring, but it does. It’s entirely based on conversation between completely normal high school students. That’s it. That’s all there is. With this in mind, this is one of the most… I don’t know, genuine manga series I’ve ever read. Also, though several signs do point to yes, it’s not a Boy’s Love series.
All there is to the plot is that the main character is transferring into high school one month late because he’s been recovering from leukemia the past year, so he’s also a year behind everyone else in his class. He puts this out front when he introduces himself so noone has to talk behind his back, and he continues to stand up for both himself and others. The rest of the book is basically him making friends with a shorter, overweight kid who’s really shy but nice and making enemies with this kid’s glasses-wearing friend, who is a huge… otaku. There is also a teacher struggling through an unrelated affair she’s having with another teacher, some other stuff going on… but mostly it’s just talking, and somehow it manages to be awesome. Very awesome.
If you ever had any doubt that Fumi Yoshinaga writes some of the best characters ever, read this one where the characters literally need no plot in order to shine. It’s pretty fabulous.
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