Plus it was hilarious!! I literally laughed every other page. This manga though! It was a breath of fresh air and I finally don’t feel like I’ve already read this story a million times.

I usually try a couple more volumes before giving up. Lately it’s been very difficult for me to find a shoujo manga series I really care about, where I turn pages without looking at how many I have left. When’s the last time I had this much fun with a manga? Way too long ago! I do think the bonus chapter at the very end starring the characters from said previous series is a great touch, but it’s also funnier than the rest of the book, which pretty much lays out where this volume falls down. It veers a little too close to Kiss Him, Not Me for my liking, but that series was pretty fun overall so we’ll see. There’s some potential, as I said - the way Azusa in Chika’s body is able to do the band’s dances better than him because of her intense study is a fun idea but they don’t do enough with it (or most of the ideas here). She and Chika are nowhere near as combative as you’d expect either, mercifully. Azusa isn’t half as annoying as she easily could be, which is a serious achievement given her personality.

It’s all fairly cute and amusing, rather than riotously funny. I appreciate them switching it up, no pun intended. Though not too mysterious, since this is not that kind of manga. She attempts to save his life during his idol group’s performance and the two start switching bodies thanks to a screw-up by (literally) God, who comes off like a lesser deity in all this.Īt first it looks like we’re about to rehash Yamada-kun & the Seven Witches with the body swapping kiss, then it gets a little more mysterious. something else - I bet it was fun to draw though). I feel like there’s a lot of fertile ground for a good series, but this volume is cute rather than hilarious and overstuffed with underdeveloped characters (not an uncommon first volume problem).Īzusa is, shall we say, slightly obsessed with Chika (we even see her shrine in all its glory and it’s. Otherwise it would have been a lot higher. Look, I can’t rate this on potential, just what’s in front of me.

Star⇄Crossed!!, Vol. 1 by Junko