| Title | : | High School Debut, Vol. 06 (High School Debut, #6) |
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| ISBN | : | 1421517337 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781421517339 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
| Publication | : | First published April 25, 2006 |
A chance encounter on the train brings Haruna face-to-face with Yoh's ex-girlfriend. (Yes, the ex-girlfriend of "the beads incident" fame!) Yoh reassures Haruna that he doesn't want to get back together with his ex, but is that how he truly feels?
High School Debut, Vol. 06 (High School Debut, #6) Reviews
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"I seem to realize I liked you more than I expected" (aka:
Lovely Complex Vol. 10) plis son literalmente Risa y Otani no wonder they are making me this happy
4 de 5 estrellas. -
I agree with others that this series could've ended after this volume, but who cares. I know I'm gonna keep reading it anyway haha. The whole drama with Yoh's ex was entertaining. Only in a manga could such a complicated, unrealistic thing happen. It was a bit unlikely and a bit of a strange coincident, but it made for good drama.
I was annoyed with Haruna in this one. She talks about how much she loves Yoh. Yoh is getting calls from his ex, but he wants nothing to do with her. Yoh likes Haruna and he makes it clear multiple times. Haruna should have been happy, but instead she keeps cheering on the ex. And to honest, it was kinda like she was pushing Yoh and the other girl together. If she loved him that much, she shouldn't have been trying to get Yoh to meet the ex. Thank god for Yoh in this one! He stayed firm on his feelings and it didn't turn into some lame love triangle. If so, the series would've turned into unnecessary angst and crying. -
OMG AGAIN YAY!!! Out of the way Makoto! Yoh and Haruna are coming through!
Although I wish it was Yoh and Emily... It could happen! I'm, like, identical to Haruna! -
Sorry, no.
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As gullible and neurotic as Haruna can be, I just love her so much!
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VIDEO REVIEW HERE:
https://youtu.be/DjMEvKUZ0iM
This was SO good!!
Haruna really continues to shine! She’s human and she DOES make mistakes, but wow! Every time I read another volume I just admire her more. She is willing to sacrifice her own happiness so that others can be happy. When she feels down, she cheers herself up. She gives her all and doesn’t hold back. I love that and I think we see a lot of this in volume.
AND WE SAW YOH’S HEART! Yes yes yes!!! I REALLY loved seeing him open up and giving confirmation on things! SO good!!
I really liked the story in this one. It was different then I expected and didn’t feel negative feelings toward a certain character and liked that. Haruna really is so kind and brings out the best in people. <3
This manga just keeps getting better and better! -
High School Debut may not be the most exciting manga ever but I like how it manages to avoid so many clichés that plague shojo manga. The main couple doesn’t break up and get back together in every volume. This volume even introduced an ex-girlfriend character who doesn’t appear to be a crazy bitch. I usually lose interest in manga series long before I get to volume six but this one I’ll keep reading.
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I know it's only volume 6 but I'm gonna be really sad when I have to part with this series. I'm enjoying it so much! I love Haruna and her earnest effort >.<
Volume 6 sees the return of Yoh's cute ex-girlfriend who I expected to be a mean, bitter girl but who turned out to be so sweet...
What follows in an interesting turn of events and a very grown-up Haruna who despite the struggle could put her onw personal feelings aside to help Yoh and Makoto.
As usual, I enjoyed this volume a lot too. -
Still cute, still ridiculous. I was surprised but kind of pleased that the resolution of the plotline with Yoh's ex didn't end up being "she's a manipulative stalker" but rather a learning moment about how people change as they grow up.
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This book make me laugh so much!! I was literally spazzing, my family thinks me insane...
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This series continues to be cute and fun
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This series follows the main character, Haruna Nagashima, and her quest to find a boyfriend in high school. In junior high, Haruna was the star pitcher of her school's softball team and spent her time outside of practice reading romantic comics. Now that she's in high school, she devotes her time to finding herself a boyfriend ("her high school debut" as she calls it). However, she is completely clueless when it comes to fashion, dating, and boys, so she asks upperclassmen Yoh Komiyama to become her "coach" in these areas. He agrees on one condition: she must not by any circumstances fall for him.
The books consist of Haruna's comical adventures at high school and outside of school with Yoh, his sister, and they're group of friends, along with various other characters who appear throughout the series.
Age: Young Adult Reader (Ages 15-18)
Rating 4 out of 5 stars for:
Art:
The artist has a very defined, unique style that sets her drawing apart from others (you can easily pick out her drawings out of a selection of artists). Not my favorite type of art, as sometimes proportions and anatomy are lacking. However, the artist has an incredibly talent for drawing clothing/accessories and this makes up for it!
Writing:
The story's pacing is straight-forward and plot development is consistent throughout series. Each chapter consists of a smaller stories that seam together to create Haruna's high school experience. The characters Kawahara writes are interesting - they are distinct from one another and personalities interact with one another in a realistic way. Haruna is portrayed as a juxtaposition - loud, hyper, pure, gullible and easily fooled at times, yet also resilient, wise, thoughtful, caring and steadfast loyal. (Most of the characters have these ups and downs to their personalities making them more dimensional). Great, laugh out loud comedy throughout the book, too!
Recommended to mostly older teens who enjoy reading teen romantic-comedy manga. -
Screaming crying throwing up while watching them deal (very maturely!!! and healthily!!) with the issue of Yoh’s ex coming back. Kicking my little feet with glee seeing Yoh say those three words to Haruna for the first time. This series makes me a gooey mess and I adore it for that.
Asami is such a pessimist it seems. Where Haruna sees the best in every situation, Asami is so quick to offer a much darker what-if. And, with Haruna’s obsessiveness, it adds up to an anxious bout of nerves.
Also I’m starting to realize how ADHD-esque Haruna is? Her distractedness in general life and yet hyperfocused moments where she is tackling a problem. Her inability to regulate her emotions well and difficulty controlling her actions and not thinking before saying what’s on her mind. The dots are starting to connect lol. -
Wow this volume was so good. Even though the whole ex girlfriend thing was very coincidental and they way they met and all, it was still really good. This volume’s purpose was to show us Haruna’s and Yoh’s growth as characters. How they’ve matured compared to the previous volumes. And the END, Beautiful 🥹💕.
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I love this silly little series so far (though it does make me glad I'm way past my high school days).
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This one was really good.
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3,5 stars
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read: september 2020
format: hard copy, 3-in-1 edition
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More of a 3.5 star rating;
I’m glad that i’m this volume we got to see just how much Haruna means to Yoh. -
dammit the way i relate to Haruna kinda scares me- The way they both are loyal and wants the best for each other is making my heart melt... It's a sweat manga, i just felt in love with the characters <3
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Was a tad bit shocked by the makoto thing (though in hindsight it seems quite obvious) but!! The volume ended in a cute way so
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This was my least favourite volume so far as the whole thing with Yoh's ex and Haruna annoyed me especially Haruna
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(Okay, what does it say about me when I think the ex-girlfriend is less annoying than the sister???)
Anyhoo, we ride hard for Haurna x Yoh in this house -
Wow, is this the same Haruna? I don't recognise her, she actually had a brain in her head for once in this one. I was definitely happy with what she did in this one. Yes, she did push a little, but in the end the situation was finally resolved in a correct and need way, instead of the mess it was. Hopefully Makoto can now continue her life further. The ending was really sweet! Still a bit strange how this manga still has 9 volumes.... while the characters are in a stable relationship. :P
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Haruna meets a girl on the train when she helps her avoid a guy with wandering hands. The two strike up a friendship and Haruna wants to help when she hears about the girl's woes with her ex-boyfriend. Giving her all sorts of advice on how to win him back, Haruna even agrees to go with her to his house. That's when she discovers that this girl is Yoh's ex-girlfriend!
I love how Haruna is always wanting to help others and how she brings out the best in other people. Even after Yoh wants her to stay away and ignore his ex, Haruna just finds this impossible to do. She can't be rude! So sweet! It's all the little things that Haruna does which make you understand why Yoh can't help but fall for her. B rating. -
Second most ugly cover of the series, if you ask me.
This whole volume centers on Yoh's former girlfriend from middle school, the one he had such a bad experience in love with to make him not want any girlfriend in high school, suddenly seeing him again and trying to approach him, because he seems so much more open and relaxed (due to Haruna's influence).
On the one hand you get the total avoidance Yoh has to deal with her in any shape or form, the way he just wants to forget about her again, the stoic way he ignores the past.
To give some relieve to the grimness of that part we have the coincidence of Haruna saving the girl from a pervert (and, you know, I don't much like that the girl, Makoto, is convetionally pretty in a Japanese styled-up way and gets turned into the baddie, considering Yoh never really opened his mouth, as he does with Haruna and told the girl how he felt. If he loved her, he knew she was weepy and easily discouraged, so he should have shown her his emotions, otherwise don't even bother about her. Blaming his bad experience at basketball all on her and then making it as if it never happened is pretty childish, but then he was in middle school, so even Yoh has clay feet, I guess).
Haruna then gets drawn into supporting the girl's attempt to reconnect with her old boyfriend because at the time she doesn't know it's Yoh, and she's incredibly flattered to be asked for emotional support, as she usually leans on Mami herself.
When everything is clear, she's the one who tells Makoto she won't give up Yoh and who then gets Yoh to go and face Makoto a last time and acknowledge what he felt for her and say goodbye (giving her those beads he hadn't thrown away for years, which Haruna had found in his room in the first or second volume).
I guess this had to be addressed but I didn't like reading a whole volume about it. Well, we do get Yoh actually admitting his love to Haruna's face as a payoff so that's pretty good ^^. -
the series should have ended here. not to say that i didn't enjoy the rest of the series, but i felt that the admition of love was climatic enough for the series to have ended there. in fact, most would have ended it there. from here on out, i wouldn't exactly say the series fizzles, but it does get stuck in a rut, so to speak. sometimes i can't believe i'm still reading this high school humdrum, but for some freakish reason it's like literary crack and i can't get enough of it.
i wish i could be a manga reviewer professionally, that way i would have a legitimate excuse for reading so much. -
Just your every now and then chance encounter on the bus leads Haruna into a whirlwind of stress and anxiety. She rescued a girl her age from a pervert on the bus and begins giving her love advice about her ex, but little does she know that the girl she saved is actually Yoh's ex-girlfriend from the "beads incident"!
This was too sweet... It makes me miss my boyfriend so much... The picture on the back really does more than anything... I once drew a picture of him and I similar to that one on a canvas but my mother threw it away... I love my baby Jamie... I miss him. *Sighs*.
P.S. The front cover is really nice too! I like it!
