Butterflies, Flowers, Volume 1 (edition 2009)

A graphic novel I started reading due to some positive reviews, I found myself for the most part a bit underwhelmed. Although not bad, this story seems to have a hard time performing a balancing act between trying to be a romance and trying to be a comedy. Of course, the normal answer is to just make this a 'romantic comedy', but the feeling I get is that this is intentionally sequestered, and thus becomes a lesser of the sum of its parts. Still, again, it's not bad, and is enough to gives this series another try with Volume 2. ( )

Really silly. Everyone in this story has a split personality, I swear! Domoto switches from "Director" to "servant" in a half a second, while Choko (much more rarely) can turn her aristocratic self off and on with ease. Don't forget the crossdresser who seems equally comfortable dressed as either gender. There's probably a subtle hidden message about how we have different faces for different parts of our lives, or something...naaaaaaaw. This is just ridiculous fun, plain and simple. ( )