Aoharu X Machinegun, Vol. 1

by Naoe

Overview

Hotaru Tachibana is a girl (though all too frequently mistaken for a boy!) with a deep sense of justice. When a classmate informs Hotaru that she was bilked out of her cash by a shady host at a host club, Hotaru immediately rushes to confront the villain only to discover that the con man in question is her new neighbor! Worse, he proposes to settle their feud with firearms! Okay, it turns out that they're just toys, but when Hotaru is soundly defeated, she finds herself sucked into the world of survival games. Is this new world one she can actually escape??

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316354967
Publisher:	Yen Press
Publication date:	12/29/2015
Series:	Aoharu X Machinegun Series , #1
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	840,443
File size:	81 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Naoe is the creator of Aoharu x Machinegun.

Editorial Reviews

12/12/2016
A stiff translation that seems barely edited and a story line highly influenced by Ouran Host Club make this manga falls flat. Hotaru Tachibana is a girl who passes as a boy in her daily life, and likes it that way. She’s the hero that women need, but when her quest for justice ends up causing damage at a school club, she becomes indebted to Masamune Matsuoka, her unpleasant new neighbor. He’s into the Japanese version of competitive paintball, and quickly drags Hotaru in as the third leg to support his team, which is trying to make it to the top of the national circuit. The setup sounds promising, but the book can’t decide on a genre until the very end, and the characters don’t deliver. The art’s acceptable, and there’s potential for later volumes by the end, but references to various other franchises in the manga world in place of original content makes it seem more like a half-baked fan work. (Oct.)

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