Bird Kiss 4
Posted: July 17, 2007 Filed under: Bird Kiss Leave a comment »This series got really awesome without my noticing it. I think this is largely because my biggest problem was (and still is) Miyoul. But she’s designed to have you hate her, I think. She’s just such an awful person, and the series is much better off because of her. As much as I hate her, you also can’t help cheering for her and Heerack throughout this volume as shoujo manga-style traps get in the way of their relationship.
Now that I’ve come around, I think this series is pretty good. The fairy tale references are pretty obscure, but with one volume left, it really is just a really snappy contemporary shoujo romance. There’s a limited cast of characters, which is great for a five-volume series like this. We get one character introduced, but she’s possibly just there to resolve some of the conflicts with Guelin and Heerack’s brother. The characters are really well-developed and work extremely nicely together for just reaching the third volume, too. This volume is great because a variety of things happen to Heerack that are just out-of-character for him, and it really is heartbreaking to see how events unfold around him. The end is good, because you finally get to see Guelin get his comeuppance. That was nice.
Read it, if only to see the most despicable manga heroine in the history of… manhwa.
