Pretty Face: Manga Series Review

Frantically funny for the gender-bending humour.

The setup of this series comes across as a story here and slices of comedy there, but that’s the point with this series to be a comedy-romance of Rando and his quest to masquerade as Rina’s missing twin sister Yuna after being in a yearlong coma and finding himself with the face of Yuna—thanks to one dementedly unhinged Dr. Jun who crafted Rando appearance to that of Yuna (based on the fact Rando carried a picture of Rina around). The whole setup from the start gives the Rando character motivation with Rina twin sister missing, having the face of said sister and being in love with Rina herself—a coincidence ensures with Rina being in love with him. But besides the motivations, the actual (and I suspect) premises seems directed towards examining the consequence of a man having to masquerade as a woman and what hilarity might ensure—but of course, that’s the whole point of the series and it works nicely for humour varying and fan-service making an appearance (how can’t you have fan-service in this type of manga?).

I enjoyed the whole series throughout, though a point of the series that might not work for some people comes from the author’s lack of fleshing out Rando from before the accident, which leaves you to guess from comments made by other characters throughout the series—though, I personally found it a bit more interesting that it delve straight into it rather than to spend a few pages of introducing us to Rando from pre-accident time. Because Rando is given more growth in the first few chapters in his situation, which might’ve be distracted by prior development. Also fan-service is part of the fun from it producing the humorous effect on Rando (classic nosebleed gag) throughout the series.

Artwork presents itself to give each character a recognisable quality, fight scenes are clearly done—when they happen—and Rando’s violent outbursts towards Dr. Jun are captured nicely throughout the series.

A disappoint that will become apparent to anyone to read the series, comes in the form of it ending abruptly. Six volumes in and it ends—just like that, it ends and we’re left hanging onto what could happen next.

My overall impression of the series is simply: not a classic, but still worth a read for the violently funny chapters and for the outright fan-service throughout.

Thought of the Day: October 4th:

Amused on a lot of things to come by—except for bloody Catherine Tate, she does not amuse me with her supposedly hit series. She’s just repeating the same punch line! That isn’t funny!  

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  1. Posted October 17, 2009 at 7:31 am

    Thanks for the share…Nice one

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