Kimi Ni Todoke: From Me to You, Volume 1 is a teen shojo manga with an interesting concept. Sawako Kuronuma looks like a girl from a horror movie. She has straight, black hair, and everyone in her school believes that it's bad luck to sit near her or look her in the eyes for more than three seconds. They don't just shun her; they're afraid of her, calling her "Sadako," after Sadako Yamamura, the evil little girl in Koji Suzuki's Ringu trilogy of movies. She becomes friends with Kazehaya, the most popular boy in her school.
This manga simply didn't work for me, and despite its catchy concept, it's just your typical teen drama with a few, jokes thrown in about Sawako summoning ghosts. She's really nice; he's really nice. There just isn't enough of an edge for me to consider buying Volume 2, which is too bad. There are over two dozen volumes, and they're fairly cheap. I bought Volume 1 for under $7. The artwork is good, the colors on the cover are great. I just didn't like it.
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