De plus, ce volume ressemble beaucoup au volume 9 et se concentre principalement sur le nouveau régime très strict mis en place à l'école d'Asuka - pour faire respecter les stéréotypes de genre en promouvant les hommes virils et les filles 'girly-girls'. Seeing as I read this book in French, the rest of this review will be in French (duh).Ĭette critique fait partie d'un défi personnel: d’améliorer mon français!Ĭette tome continue là où le volume 9 s'est arrêté. This review is part of a personal challenge to: 1) read more French books 2) improve my French 3) read all the French manga novels from my mom's manga collection. I feel like so much could be done but that won’t occur to the last few volumes. I did enjoy this manga, but I feel like it’s dragging still. This manga does that sometimes but it’s because one loves the characters, it makes all those other emotions just as strong. Love can be such a wonderful thing, since it makes the heart flutter and release positive feelings to make someone feel good. “We were able to return to normal because of Love…” The questionable methods used to change people and as usual, fails I enjoy the fact it’s to commemorate another series return to publication, it’s such a sweet gesture. As Asuka proves when he is dressed as one of the beauty samurais. I do like the little story at the end where a maiden can still be touching and adorable no matter how they look. Otherwise it’s basically a filler within the Anti-Otomen arc of the story. I kind of found this volume amusing, O-Tan seems to have failed her objective, the students live up to their schools ideal and seeing Ryo in a kimono makes this volume interesting. Will things end smoothly without the Otomen exposing themselves? Or will they be cut off from things they know? Only volume 10 can answer that or will it. That’s not all, the school trip takes them to a secluded area where they live out the samurai lifestyle but Asuka and his school friends aren’t the only one there, Hajime will be there with his school too. This is bad news for Ryo and Asuka, will they ever return to their usual selves? Will Asuka give up all things cute? Will Ryo forever work in a bakery?

We return in Volume 10 as the Anti-Otomen regime is in full swing, when one teacher fails, another one steps up with a potion that causes the males to be manly and the females to become girly.

Otomen, Vol. 1 by Aya Kanno