However, as the story progresses the plot turns increasingly boring IMO. Attempts made in creating humour feels very forced and awkward. Certain arcs are so lame (eg. hikari-turned-guy-to-wreck-kei’s-omai) that I simply skim through it without much thought. Besides that, I also feel that the author inserted too many character self-thoughts among the conversation bubbles that it can get very confusing as I try to differentiate the contents of self-thought and conversation.

Well, I guess I will drop the manga and continue with the anime since I am still fine with the way that the anime conveys the story.

It does seem irritating that Hikari never beats Kei in anything, or even once, but still, you know how unrealistic manga can get.

The anime doesn’t quite bring the humor, the manga, IMO is a lot more better in comparison. Maybe people should give it a shot, rather than watch the anime. Anime’s sometimes disappoint me.

Sometimes I think it’s better to start off with the manga, because when I watch the anime, I feel like I don’t need to read all that again, which makes reading sort of pointless. You may be disappointed with the anime, but still, I get the feeling of not being bothered it read it all again. The other way round is different, because somehow, you get the feeling of wanting to see and hear the characters..Because you just can’t be bothered to read still drawings. in BLACK and WHITE.

Everyone has different view points, so I don’t expect everyone to like it, but just like everyone else commented, it’s our own opinions. It’s not like a comment in a blog is going to change it. So, you don’t like it. I don’t really care, I’m just defending the anime/manga. It’s really not so bad.

I noticed how they wanted to make this very Ouran-esque, but it doesn’t work out really well. The later volumes of Ouran are great, but the beginning ones was pretty average. The Ouran anime made every single episode feel like a masterpiece, including the storylines from the beginning volumes.

It makes me wonder if they took the budget for the S.A. anime and instead put it towards a Skip Beat anime down the road.

You’re right - Ouran does a much, much better job of “super rich kids and their eccentricities” than S.A. Of course, Ouran’s premise is satirical, whereas S.A.’s is not.

And NotHayama has some pretty scathing things to say about Beauty Pop’s disturbing focus on appearance. Cripes, can’t we have a girl comic that’s just a LITTLE less superficial and/or sexist for the young ones?! At least the most feminist shoujo in English right now - Love*Com, High School Debut, and Skip Beat - are only about PG-13, so I guess a fair amount of younger girls can read those. Read them and leave crap like S.A. in the dust!

They’re privileged because they’re smart and rich, and everyone looks adoringly at them. What the heck? And the characters are an absolute bore. It’s not even funny privileged like in Ouran Host Club. It’s not my fave manga, either, but the careless heroine, pointless but actually funny (if generic) humor, and privileged guy who is interested in “peasants” but is part of the whole rich class thing is 10x better than S.A. Really, it had quite a lot of potential…Competition shojo manga like Beauty Pop’s been raved lately. But S.A. can only be raved by teenage fangirls.