KANOJO-TACHI NO X-DAY

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  RoseFaerie

  70/100
  A manga for all the kids who wished to be sick so they didn't have to go to school the next day.

  Most high schoolers hate school. The school I attended from 8th to 10th grade became such a nightmare that I would pray for school to be cancelled. I wanted to be sick to delay the difficult tests for just another day. I wanted the school to flood again so that I wouldn't have to hide my interests or personality for fear of being ostracized. I had a particularly rough sophmore year, and every day I just wanted something to happen so that my school would go away. I was so miserable I just wanted it all to be over. I can understand why these characters were so desperate to try and get rid of the school. If school is gone then it's like the problems you have there are gone too.

  Rika hates school. She has the usual problems like too much homework, difficult tests, and her boyfriend dumping her. She's even lost the will do do her favorite sport after an injury, despite having the potential to win championships. One day, she encounters a chatroom where her classmates are complaining about school. She forms a connection with three of them, and they soon begin to work on a plan to blow up the school.

  X-Day was interesting and had an interesting premise with interesting ideas. However, two volumes was not enough to cover all of what was going on. There are so many heavy topics crammed in, and while it does an adequate job with most of them and treats the heavier things with the sensitivity they deserve. However, they aren't explored very much. I also have questions about how one of the character's problem relates to the school. It's a tragic story, but it doesn't have much to do with school. The ending was also way too convenient. The end of the first volume has a major cliffhanger which leaves you wondering about the fate of three characters, but the final volume ends with almost no consequences for any of the characters which honestly makes no sense given the stakes we were presented with Mr. Money and Jangalian's plots.

  The characters are all compelling with their own struggles. We have Rika and her apathy, as well as the mask she constantly puts on to hide her suffering. Polaris tones herself down so much at school that she feels she can only be authentic when she wears her own clothes. She also seems to be depressed, but that isn't really explored. Her character was the one I saw myself in the most. Mr. Money is friendly and always smiling, but he's the one suffering the most. I honestly didn't understand why he wanted to blow up the school, since it was his home life that was so miserable. Jangalian is actually an anti-social teacher who wants nothing to do with the chairman's daughter who's stalking him and trying to force an engagement. I would have liked him more if there wasn't the ship-tease with Polaris, his 17-year-old student. They had sufficient characterization for something so short.

  I'll also talk about the oneshot, since that was super weird. It's a dystopian series about cows which have been genetically engineered to have human DNA, since normal cows died out. A single cow becomes friends with a human boy in the midst of a plague, where cow meat is the cure to the deadly disease. It's creative, but its' also super weird and horrifying, especially with the cannibalistic undertones with the people eating the cow-humans. It was well done, I guess? It's just the weirdest thing ever, and I've read some weird things.

  The art is very pleasing. I love Setona Mizushiro's style and how elegant the character designs are, all while having a sketchy, hand-drawn feel. The colored images always have this nice pastel color pallet, which is super appealing to me.

  I think it was a solid manga, but it had a lot of flaws, mostly due to the length. I'd easily recommend it to someone looking for a shoujo with a unique premise that deals with how most teens actually feel about school. While it was no masterpiece by any means, I'm glad I read it and I appreciate what it was trying to do.

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