Hana Kimi // 100th Review!

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Name: Hana Kimi
Mangaka: Nakajo, Hisaya

Volumes: 23 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Scanlations: V.23 Ch.145 (Complete)
Scanlator: Many
Type: Manga
Genre: Gender Bender/Comedy/Drama/School Life
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: Japanese-American Mizuki has gotten herself into a high school in Japan…but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she’s going to an all-guys’ high school…and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they’re more than classmates…they’re roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates–and the school doctor–must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation…

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Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 5/5

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Savage Garden

Name: Savage Garden
Mangaka: Lee, Hyeon-Sook

Volumes: 6 (Complete)
Licensed: Ablaze Publishing (Print) Azuki (Digital)
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Drama/Historical/Crossdressing
Age Group: Teen

Summary: In 18th century England, Gabriel, an orphan girl from a fallen noble family befriended a young man named Jeremy, who was rumored to be an illegitimate child of a nobleman. After an incident occurred, Gabriel must impersonate her friend Jeremy, taking his place at an all boys academy for nobles, a place that may seem like heaven to others, but really hides a harshness which she would never have imagined.

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Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Boys Over Flowers: Hana Yori Dango

Name: Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango)
Mangaka: Kamio, Youko
Volumes: 37 (Such a painful number)
Licensed: Viz (Complete)
Scanlations: Complete
Scanlator: Too many
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/High school/Comedy/Unrequited Love/Bullying
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Tsukushi attends an elite school, not because of wealth but because of intelligence. Because of this she has become aquainted with the F4. The F4 are the richest and hottest (Debatable) guys at school. Not to mention the biggest bullies ever. Like a weed, Tsukushi decides to fight back against her bullies and finds one of the guys is falling for her. Now press play.

Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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