T Earlier this month, I wrote a review of the first volume of Alice in the Country of Hearts. That was the first review of a Shojo manga I did for this blog, but I read several in the past, and in some ways, I tried to make my review of Alice in the Country of Hearts into a cumulative review of all the Shojo I had read. In that review, I talked about how I was growing to suspect that Shojo just wasn’t for me, and that no matter how hard I tried to enjoy it, I couldn’t help but start nitpicking. moreĮarlier this month, I wrote a review of the first volume of Alice in the Country of Hearts. Will the Heartseed and his mindbending powers pull the five friends apart forever?. Inner secrets, hidden pasts and dark urges are revealed to one another. Now the lives of the five friends are turned upside down, as they start swapping bodies and minds. The closeknit club of girls and boys are perfectly happy in their daily school life-until a supernatural being known as the Heartseed enters the picture.
When five normal and well-adjusted teens at Yamahoshi Academy form the Cultural Research Club, all is right with the world. The very best of friends are about to become the worst enemies.
HEARTSEED KOKORO CONNECT SERIES
The closeknit club of girls and Kokoro Connect is an all-new manga series that combines the genderbending and body-switching madness of Kashimashi with the high school hijinks of Toradora! I thought it was really clever that these issues were developed gradually in earlier episodes, then used to fuel an explosive argument between the two here.Kokoro Connect is an all-new manga series that combines the genderbending and body-switching madness of Kashimashi with the high school hijinks of Toradora! The very best of friends are about to become the worst enemies. A problem I personally had with the series was that Aoki seemed pretty ineffectual, and Taichi uses that as his argument to attack Aoki.
Aoki accuses him of being egotistical and not having a plan, arguing that visiting her now would only hurt her more. Believing that he’ll find a way to help Yui, Taichi announces his intent to visit her again. In this episode, this is turned on its head. His problem was that Taichi seemed to be solving the group’s problems too easily. I know someone who had a problem with the first arc of Kokoro Connect. Even though she accepts Taichi’s apology, she feels rejected by him, and you sense that she half-believes what he said (especially with her finding it impossible to 100% trust someone). Inaba feels stung after being told by Taichi that she’s given up on Yui and doesn’t care about her.
Yui has holed herself up, afraid that she might snap and hurt more people. The group has been whittled down to three, and the title “And Then There Were None” suggests that things may get worse. That no longer happens – instead, if one of them feels a strong desire that would normally be suppressed, the desire is instead unleashed outwardly. In the first five episodes, he gets them to switch bodies at random intervals. A strange entity called Heartseed wants to see some sparks fly between a group of five friends (Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki), so he messes them around a bit. Kokoro Connect is a blend of comedy, drama and romance set in high school.