Sawako Kuronuma is a lonely schoolgirl, ostracised for looking like Sadako, the creepy girl from The Ring movies. Then one day popular boy Kazehaya starts talking to her and her classmates see her in a different light. Um… that’s it?
It’s amazing that for a book with so little going on that the story is stretched into a series! It’s like Japanese manga isn’t allowed to tell a done-in-one story – everything’s gotta be a serial, no matter what! And there is almost nothing happening. People are scared of Sawako. Kazehaya talks to Sawako. She’s amazed. Repeat for 200+ pages and then slap a completely unnecessary “To Be Continued…” on it!
I thought it’d be a cute romance, and the unusual horror angle seemed promising, but unfortunately Karuho Shiina’s first volume of From Me To You just kept putting me to sleep. And they’re likeable characters too, Sawako and Kazehaya – I’m rooting for them, I hope they get together. But, jeezum crow, this mega-slow treatment of their story killed me! Not everything has to be a series goddammit – just tell the story, stop treading water the whole time!
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