Soryanaize Darling

Oki, it might seem I have overated this manga a tiny bit. But I truly believe this was one touching story. I was crying through the whole of the last chapters.

Story.
Basically, its about this girl {20 years old} who was in an accident 1 year ago, and one of her blood donors somehow "transfered" part of her soul into the girl {Maiko} while donating her blood. One day, this teacher {her main love interest throughout the story} starts at her school, and she has to have these weird "visions" about a younger him... and so it goes on and on. There are some twists to the story though, which I found throughoutly enjoyable, and shocking. It really focuses on the sacrifices you have to make to make yourself, but above all, others, happy.

Art.
I really liked the art. Dont know exactly how to describe it though? It looks very appealing ^^!. hehe.

Character.
I loved all the characters, and the differences and contrasts in them. Touja-kun is one of my personal faveorite, although he's only 3 years old. The character developments happen quickly, yet gradually, as there are many "buts" and "ifs" but they all end up to be characters you will love.

Enjoyment.
As I already pointed out; this made me cry- so that's a good point in my book. Its very emotional; and is therefore enjoyable in that aspect.

I expected a love story, nothing more, what I got was somewhat different.

If you were sharing your body with someone else, how do you know what part is you and which is them?
When does that line of what you feel and think end and what they feel and thinks begin?

Maiko almost died in an accident. But thanks to someone’s blood she was saved. A year later she is having visions and dreams about another life that isn’t hers. Specifically a man, one she happens to meet, it’s the new college professor. Every time she gets near him, her heartbeat goes crazy and when he touches her, she melts. A name keeps popping up in her dreams, Haruka, seems like there is more to him that meets the eyes.

Underneath the romance of a girl and a professor is a tale about destiny and chance.
The future isn’t something that’s set in stone, anything can change it. More than once I have found myself wishing I knew how something was going to turn out because that would make choosing so much easier.
We wish and we wish never expecting for it to be granted and if just one time you can see how, when and why something happens, something so small in this world yet significant that can alter the life course of people you have love. I’m not talking about something like heist or saving millions of people from dying. Something small like saving someone from getting run over by a car.

If we change it are we prepared for it? We tend to forget that once we change one little thing, the rest has to be accommodated to fit that part in, making everything change.
I was actually glad that was the theme of the manga. Had a Butterfly Effect feel to it.

The characters surprised me. The way that they act was a lot like they are in high school, it makes you forget that they are college woman and men. I would say that it’s not realistic but that’s not true, the fact that they can sometimes still act like teenagers just make it that much more accurate. Some of us don’t really grow up, we just put on roles for certain times of the day were it’s fitting. Eventually making them permanent.
Maiko personal struggle of trying to find herself within herself was interesting and made you feel for her. Her peaceful life suddenly got complicated and she wasn’t sure what was real or not. There were all these choices to be made and all of them were made by her and for that she had the most growth as a character. The others just went along for the ride.
For that reason I didn’t feel a lot of Yukiya (professor). His thoughts were everywhere and he was living in the past and that’s ok had the past been his. Any more is a spoiler and it’s worth reading.

The art was average and nice for the eyes. I did love the way Touya was drawn and his role in general. His role put a smile on my face and actually almost made me cry. The guy was a bishie who was full of himself, the girl had big eyes and was humble-ish. Other than that it was average.

It’s definitely worth a read, I enjoyed the romance and the smiles but I also enjoyed the philosophical question of destiny and changing your future it has in it‘s subtexts. Not everything is black and white, or maybe it is and we just blend to our comfort.

My rating is actually an 8.9 almost 9.

Nothing is better than reading a well written love story. It tweaks at your heart with frustration, hope, and especially love.
And when you cry with joy at the end, you know it's good.
This story is what it's all about... I didn't cry, but I really wanted to.
Even though I didn't expect the ending to turn out the way it did, I was still glad it was a happy ending. Soryanize Darling is what I highly recommend to those that love romance. All the characters, the plot, and art made it seem that they were pulling you into the story with them. You couldn't hardly ignore it.
I know this review might not have what you're looking for in the story, but I hope it at least gave you some intention on reading the story. Before you click that "Wasn't Helpful" button; try to peaking into the manga and see if my review helped or not; try to feel what I felt about this short series.

I loved this manga!

When I first started reading it I thought, "Oh yeah, this is good some good humor nice plot." As it went on though I felt a connection between the main charater, Maiki chan, and the way she couldn't decided between two guys and the way she struggled with her feelings for Nagase san. The last chapter had me crying, meaning that this story really touched and affected me. I felt like it was so real, like Touya kun's special powers transported me into the story :D it's great! Definitely worth the read.


The art is amazing, too! Nagase kun is super attractive ;D

Since there are a fair share of positive reviews for this I'm going to be the cruel one. I truly do not understand how this can have a score higher than a 5. I'll also mainly write this review around the parts I find the most important to talk about so a lot about it will be omitted.

Before reading this manga this you need a bit of a trigger warning as there are a lot of things like abuse, manipulation and rape that are jokingly glossed over in it. You could say that it's an older series and that it's a product of it's time, but I do not find these things ok no matter where or when they're written.

Story:
The story is that of a 20 y/o girl who get's a blood transfusion and afterwards inherits the memories and psychic powers of the woman who donated blood to her. This is important because the brother of this woman's husband was passionately in love with her and becomes insanely possessive of the MC who now has the memories of the dead wife playing in her dreams.

To start off this isn't an uninteresting story, and the subject-matter of someone trying to come to terms with the loss of a loved one, especially when a part of that loved one is alive within someone else, could be a strong one.The problem is how the series handles that subject-matter. Without spoiling anything I can say that the topic of loss is a lot of the time glanced over and mostly serves as foder for the characters having the same fight in ever other chapter with little to no development.

It's also a bit problematic because the love interest is really forceful towards the MC when he finds out that she has a part of the woman he love inside of her. There is even a rape scene in the first chapter where the MC tells the love interest to stop and he doesn't, this is played for laughs. I can not stress enough how there needs to be a trigger warning in this, the author clearly didn't know how serious of a topic this is when writing this.

Characters:
The main character Maiko is a very stereotypical MC for the early- mid 2000's. She wants love and goes along with everything any man really tells her. She gets angry and screams a lot but gives in with some convincing at every turn.

The love interest is called Yukiya and is one of the creepiest love interests that I've ever had to read about. Upon finding out that Maiko has his dead brother's dead wive's memories he pretty much guilt tripps her into living with him and starts treating her like a possession. Maiko tells him off for this, but as I said before, it just takes a bit of simple sweet talking for her to become compliant.
Their dynamic never really develops, she yells at him and he's possessive and creepy for 2/3 of the manga. Once she, in a pretty disturbing turn of events, realises that she loves him she does a 180 and thinks he can do no wrong all of a sudden.

It doesn't help that the manga sits short on only 14 chapters. The pacing is laser fast and there simply isn't any time to develop any of the characters beyond their basic characteristics. There is a love rival thrown in later in the series who serves as nothing but a plot device to move the MC's relationship along.

Art:
The style is pretty standard mid-2000's shoujo but unfortunately that's all you can really say about it. A lot of the characters look different from page to page as well as bodies looking disproportionate at times. There are also a lot of "goofy expressions" through out this that are thrown in during dramatic and serious moments, this made it hard for me to ever get into anything that was happening since it didn't seem like the characters themselves were taking anything seriously.

The facial expressions also played a huge part in how I saw the characters. The MC tend to make this really angry, razor sharp teeth face a lot of the time which led me to find her annoying as she's angry a lot. The love interest is drown with this really cutesy and kinda "uwu" ish expression in a lot of moments when the MC is mad which makes him incredibly disturbing as it doesn't seem like he's listening to her at all, which for the first book is 100% true anyways.

I see what this series was going for, and it really tried, but I just don't think that this is a good or healthy way of showing off a relationship. There is a scene in the first couple of pages where someone brushes domestic abuse to the side like it's a woman's preference to be beaten and it's just an awful message to send.

I'm not saying that you should expect shoujo manga to offer a realistic look on relationships, or that you should seek them out for advice, but there is harmless shoujo and then there is this.(It's really written way more like a shoujo than a josei, just remove the sex scenes and there would be no difference)

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone except for how to not write a love story. The love interest is a possessive rapist who is in love with his brother's wife, and the main character is a pushover who falls for anyone who shows her kindness.
I will not be revisiting this and I hope that I might have saved someone an hour by writing this review.

Have a good one and wash your hands everyone!