If you’re tired of manga with the usual school girl just struggling through her turbulent high school years and youthful romances and a heap of needless angst, “Love Attack” will be a breath of fresh air. The two aren’t the idea of high school students, and at first, Chiemi isn’t at all interested in Hirata. She actually gives him a chance once she sees a bit of his good side and neither pines silently for the other. She openly confronts him and he her when the other does something they dislike. No hiding away and angsting for endless chapters. What I liked best was that despite hooking up, that didn’t detour them from beating up people who picked on others or each other. They basically remained the same and the other accepts it. Even expects it.

The characters were interesting; the kind of people you’d like to be friends with if you were in high school. Their friendships with their friends are easy to understand and affiliate with, and their relationship with each other is not painfully and needlessly dramatic, but charming. Not your typical love story, but not too far fetched either. I’d definitely recommend this if you’d like a good read with plenty of humor and just the right amount of endearing moments.

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Within the story, Chiemi is nearing the danger point of getting expelled. Fearful of this news, she takes up the task of trying to get Hirata to stop his acts of ditching school and beating other students up and ends up flying through a window and kicking him in the face demanding he stop! Hirata comes to Chiemi and she is afraid he will attack her, even though she's a girl. Instead of that, it's totally the opposite. He asks her out!

Aside from the random mishaps (getting ganged up on as a couple-- then enjoying victory as a couple, mistaking what one says for something else, ect.) it is a hilarious story. At one point of the story, the couple have become angered at one another over an issue at school, a simple couple argument. Everyone goes through that, right? These two are different! When the next scene is viewed, their entire class is cowering in fear under buckets, desks, home-made shields, ect! Once their teacher asks why it smells like impending doom in the class, a student explains that the couple are arguing and everyone is in fear of their life!

It is a fantastic series that would be a wonderful addition to any Shojo collectors library. It will make you laugh and most certainly get you out of the normal 'Good-Girl' mangas.

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