Comments on: Gentlemen’s Alliance Cross Mini Review (manga)

By: Diana Dang

Diana Dang — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:14:01 +0000

Oh my god, I so agree. This series makes me wanna slam my head against the wall. It’s so irritating!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:43:23 +0000

i vow to never read another manga with school hierarchies LOL
they annoy the crap out of me…

Although that is the trend as you say - so avoiding it is hard
and its not like i don’t enjoy reading them (ouran, vampire knight, hana yori dango)
but ya.. i dont really want to read about rich whiny kids anymore.

I prefer older manga now - specifically because back then they used normal school systems.

I think that is what put me off of this title… although I bought it up anyway because i love arina tanemura’s art.
Also I agree the story tries to do too much
So it was hard for me to get into this one…
but im giving it a shot anyhow

By: Berdsforth

Berdsforth — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:20:44 +0000

hmm… yes, the storyline is a bit complicated and too much, but the characters are okay. I love Takanari,Maora and Ushio. I think fullmoon wo sagashite is better in plot, but Shinshi Doumei Cross has more interesting characters.
But i hate the whole squealing thing over the gold and platinum, and too much fairytale dreams comes true

By: ushio_sama

ushio_sama — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:13:31 +0000

Yeah I love tanemura, but unlike you I simply adore shinshi doumei, especially mao, haine and ushio. I know some of the characters are stupid, and the storyline is a little bit too melodramatic and silly (like mao actually being the mailman or the whole i-marry-two-people thing) but the drawings and characters are wonderful.
and vampire knight’s not too bad either

By: ouka

ouka — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:46:06 +0000

arina tanemura, is my favorite story tellers because she make`s up the most beautiful storys that make you want to read more and more and more. her storys arint the only thing she is good at she drawls the most beautifuliest drawling i have ever seen that is why i like arina tanemura!!!!!!!

By: marchhare

marchhare — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:09:27 +0000

i like arina tanemura, not her one-shots, but i loved to read time stranger kyoko (though the story had it’s flaws), fullmoon wo sagashite (the earlier volumes not so much, but the later ones) and kamikaze kairo jeanne, but i cannot, cannot, cannot force myself to actually like shinshi doumei cross. i’ve an unread volume 7 lying around, because i forgot to buy volume 6 and i’m not sure if i even want to read it.
the characters are stupid, the storyline is unbelievable (there probably wasn’t something like a storyline in the beginning, just “let’s draw and see what will happen”) oh, and i totally agree with you, the school system, what the…?!!
it’s not like i’m not able to enjoy mangas with obscenly rich kids (ouran high school host club) or a school hierarchy (gakuen alice), but i absolutely hate it, when they are idealizing these elements, instead of criticising it or adding a ironical touch .
i do not enjoy special a because of that (combining the worst of both) and i’m not a fan of vampire knight either (perhaps for a different reason. the school system is not very believable, ok, but worse than that, are the l characters. you can reduce them to one dramatic quote, one dramatic expression per character, repeat that over and over again and you have the first 30 chapters of VK, i didn’t read any further yet, so i don’t know if it goes on like that)
long story short: shinshi doumei cross disappointed me. a lot ._.

(sorry for any (grammar) mistakes that occur, english is not my first language.)

By: Romanticide

Romanticide — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:26:51 +0000

I could believe a school hierarchy to exist, based on donating money or skills but having the students in the lower circle worshiping every step of the higher ones… actually I don’t buy that part.
And for some reason Arina Tanemura works don’t appeal me… no matter how much I try to read them… my suspension of disbelief works perfectly fine with magic and super human abilities… but when a Tanemura manga is involved it just doesn’t work…

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By: LadyUranus

LadyUranus — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:57:47 +0000

Thank you for pointing out the stupidity of school hierarchies. I barely bought it for Vampire Knight (and as the volumes went on, I increasingly didn’t) and in Utena it kind of works in a silly-camp way, but most of the time… No more hierarchies! No more Hana Yori Dango boys lording over Yuu Watase’s next poor shoujo heroine girl!

[Except in Ouran, because the parody works to AWESOME extent there.]