Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 1

She was the number one student in her class. She was the best at everything and always willing to help. She was pretty and smart. And a total fake. She did it for the grades and for the praise.Then he came. He was just as smart, handsome and well liked. And he seemed to do it without a problem, as if he wasn't even trying.Here are the first three chapters of the manga kare kano, also known as his and her circumstances. Serious, funny, painful and so real it really seems to touch our memories of what school was REALLY like.This volume also holds a stand-alone story, kind of the manga's extra you might say, called The Tiger and The Chameleon. It is a VERY touching story all by itself.It has been pointed out that the events in the anime ends at volume 8, but the manga goes on, so I plan to collect as many of the manga volumes as I can to see what's going to happen beyond the anime's ending. Masami Tsuda is a great artist and really seems to understand the human heart.

this was a GREAT first installment of this series. I'd already watched the anime, but this manga is just as good as the anime :). I highly recommend buying this series to anyone!! It's just one of those series that has a bunch of something for everyone. There's romance, comedy (some parts just made me laugh out loud, haha), and so on. Go out and get your own copies if you can!

I'm a big Shoujo fan, and, well...This just didn't cut it for me.1. The artwork is a bit lacking.2. The characters are not very interesting in fact they are a bit annoying. Everything about the lead characters and what they do is repetitive and...*Yawn*3. The story is all over the place. You really don't get a grasp of the direction the story is heading.I just didn't care much for it...It didn't capture me.There is much better Manga out there.

Great condition and I'm enjoying the book

"Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 1" consisted of two interesting love stories. I personally preferred the first over the second, but you can't expect every story to be just as good as the last. Here is a basic run-down of the two stories:The first one was about Yukino Miyazawa, a girl who is pretty, smart, helpful, and kind...at least when she's at school. She has always been popular, but when Soichiro Arima comes along, her popularity begins to fade. He is also good-looking, smart, helpful, and kind. Miyazawa is so upset by the fact that she isn't the center of attention anymore, that she slowly begins to focus all of her time and energy on Arima...but is it competitive energy, or is it possible that Yukino might have a crush? And what will she do if her true selfish, snobby self is discovered, and she is left looking like a hypocrite?The second story is about Koharu Mizumoto, a shy, quiet girl who is incredibly afraid of opening up to anyone. But when she bumps into supposedly "bad" Toshiro Sakajo, her glasses are broken, and she finds herself practically sightless. Feeling as though he is partly responsible for Koharu's glasses being broken, Sakajo offers to be her "eyes" until her glasses can be fixed, which means he will follow her around at school, carrying her books, sharing his notes with her, and helping her around. At first Koharu feels awkward, but after a while, she begins to feel more and more attracted to Sakajo, who isn't turning out to be so "bad" after all.This was a romantic, entertaining book. I didn't want to put it down! The first story is going to be continued in the second book, but I think the second one has come to an end. I'm going to check out the second volume at the library the next time I go. The only problem I had with this book is that there was a lot of cussing! I'm still sort of new to manga, but I've never read one that cussed so much. It contained all the common cuss-words that aren't the worst you could say, but are still bad. It also had some words and phrases like "Oh my God" that I don't approve of that much, even though I'm used to reading it a lot. I also liked that both boys in the stories were cute. I just can't get that into romantic manga if the boy isn't attractive to me. To get into it, it has to be a boy that I would have a crush on if I was a manga character. Overall, if you like romance, and don't mind all the cussing, then I recommend this book to you. But keep in mind that this IS romance, and I can't guarantee that future books will have appropriate romance material like this one did.

Amazing story and art, I personally love it

中学時代からハマり始めて、今も楽しく読んでいるカレカノ。ドイツでダイスキ！という花とゆめの雑誌が出ていたとは知っていたけど、まさか日本で読めるとは思いませんでした。カレカノ、英語でも面白いですねーーー！！日本語でここどうやって訳すんだろう？？と考えていたところが、うま～く英語で説明してある。日本語ではただうめき声だったところも、簡潔に英語で台詞が書いてある。なるほど、こういう解釈の仕方もあるのかと、違う見方でカレカノを読むことができました。しかし…ここが違うかな、訳。「うわべばかりとりつくろってきて、優等生のフリをして、本気で人とつきあってこなかった私は…」（日本版）↓「うわべばかりとりつくろってきて、優等生のフリをして、本気で男の人とつきあってこなかった私は…」（海外版）ちょっと違うよ！ユキノンが恋愛に苦労している人みたいに…他にも日本人にしかわからない有名人や歌手がちょっとすみっこに説明ついてて面白い！ぜひおすすめです。（ちょっと無理やりな訳もあったので、星はよっつです）