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Beauty is the Beast #4
Beauty Is the Beast, Vol. 4
Happily ever after comes with a curfew!
When bubbly eleventh-grader Eimi Yamashita finds out that her parents are relocating for work, she decides to strike out on her own and move into a dormitory for girls. Little does Eimi suspect the exciting romantic adventures that await her there!
As winter sets in at the dorms and the boys hog all the electricity to heat their rooms, Shimonuki continues his quest to win Eimi's heart. She agrees to a date, but they both end up confessing to Wanibuchi. Because despite Wanibuchi's commitment to another woman, Eimi can't stop loving him. So what will she do if Wanibuchi goes through with his plans to move back to Mexico?
When bubbly eleventh-grader Eimi Yamashita finds out that her parents are relocating for work, she decides to strike out on her own and move into a dormitory for girls. Little does Eimi suspect the exciting romantic adventures that await her there!
As winter sets in at the dorms and the boys hog all the electricity to heat their rooms, Shimonuki continues his quest to win Eimi's heart. She agrees to a date, but they both end up confessing to Wanibuchi. Because despite Wanibuchi's commitment to another woman, Eimi can't stop loving him. So what will she do if Wanibuchi goes through with his plans to move back to Mexico?
200 pages, Paperback
First published November 5, 2004
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February 2, 2021
This series continues to be low-interest for me, although I must admit that this installment is a bit less less bland. Simone actually asks Eimi on a date! and is accepted! Although apparently just for fun? and not understanding that Simone has strong feelings for her. And Wanibuchi really is and also still talking about going back to Mexico. What will happen? Surely someone will end up heartbroken! I don't care, though, aside from feelng mild pity for Simone.
June 11, 2008
this book taught me that, in manga, nosebleeds are used to symbolize powerful lust. OMG. awesome.
March 2, 2021
I feel like with every volume I read I'm beginning to like the story less and less. I'm honestly finding them boring and I don't even know what's happening to this plot. I feel like our main character is so so plain and of course has the "i have no personality but I have 6 boys in love with me" - I also am not really feeling any chemistry between the characters. At first I did but, I'm not sure what exactly happened to it. I believe there is only 5 volumes in this manga and I do in fact have the 5th volume so I will read it to just finish the manga. Hopefully the next volume is better T~T
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September 8, 2024
This volume contained some darker and more personal content. (As well as a hella awkward and inexplicable date?) Although this series is more of a snapshot of events rather than a coordinated plot I am kind of sad there is only one more left. I love these slice-of-life type stories.
January 14, 2021
And you're starting to lose me...
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April 24, 2025nostalgia re-read
March 9, 2013
Winter comes to the dorms and the first chapter is just a bit of shenanigans to set-up the cold. In the second one Eimi supposedly gets cursed by entering a forbidden room (which at the end of the chapter ends up being just a rumor), so a lot of mishaps happen to her.
One of them ends her with a swollen wrist sent to her room so nothing else can happen. A passing Wanibuchi realizes she won't be able to wash her hair so he springs her from the dorm (it really highlights their height difference and makes him look like her dad :P) to take her to his girlfriend so she can get her hair washed.
His girlfriend makes it clear (to the reader, if not to the oblivous Eimi) that this level of care is totally unlike what Taka would spend on his women, so she envies Eimi.
The next chapter is another step forward in the mystery of what Taka actually thinks. Eimi, inspired by the design of the flat where Taka's girlfriend lives, invites herself to same to get some inspirations for remodeling her and Misao's room. When the lady leaves, and Eimi realizes that Taka is there (and Simone just happens to call her and hear about that ^^), suddenly all four end up dining there.
The talk turns to the future and Waka announces that he wants to go back to Mexiko when he finishes school. Here's Eimi's second chance to shine: none of the other two know what to say to that, but she simply says that he shouldn't go because she would miss him. She makes him promise to stay... and he does. And we realize that what Taka actually wants is someone who shows that he is important in her life and does not slink around his dark and dour attitude.
To offset that dramatic and angsty realisation, we get a lovely comedy inset with worried simone blurting a confession to Eimi, which she sunnily accepts ^^. Throwing him into total confusion. There are the dorm residents shining Eimi up, there's the total incomprehensibility of what she likes on a date, and there's grumpy Wanibuchi in the background...
... who gets told what happened in detail by a cheerful Eimi right after the date ^^ (while he's fresh from the bath and only wearing a towel, this time - Matsumoto does major female fan service, as she's well aware), because she can't think why she shouldn't talk it over with Wanichin, she usually does stuff like that with her day.
Then, shortly before she becomes unimportant :P, we get the backstory of Taka's lover, Keito and him. With a lovely thread of a song running through her attraction to him "You make me feel like a Natural Woman".
But the next chapter sets up the emotional switch to the next volume, which Eimi having a dream of Taka crying. It makes her seek him out (there's a lovely highlight to the fact that she treats him like her possession, without any of the distance his attitude or beauty bring to others). Since she doesn't want to study alone in the library, she just asks him to stay, and he indulges her.
Both are in the library because it's exam time and Taka studies for real for the first time because he doesn't want his father to be notified by the teachers if he should slack, so we get some more about the unhappy household he comes from. We also get Eimi just hugging him for comfort, and him feeling comforted.
One of them ends her with a swollen wrist sent to her room so nothing else can happen. A passing Wanibuchi realizes she won't be able to wash her hair so he springs her from the dorm (it really highlights their height difference and makes him look like her dad :P) to take her to his girlfriend so she can get her hair washed.
His girlfriend makes it clear (to the reader, if not to the oblivous Eimi) that this level of care is totally unlike what Taka would spend on his women, so she envies Eimi.
The next chapter is another step forward in the mystery of what Taka actually thinks. Eimi, inspired by the design of the flat where Taka's girlfriend lives, invites herself to same to get some inspirations for remodeling her and Misao's room. When the lady leaves, and Eimi realizes that Taka is there (and Simone just happens to call her and hear about that ^^), suddenly all four end up dining there.
The talk turns to the future and Waka announces that he wants to go back to Mexiko when he finishes school. Here's Eimi's second chance to shine: none of the other two know what to say to that, but she simply says that he shouldn't go because she would miss him. She makes him promise to stay... and he does. And we realize that what Taka actually wants is someone who shows that he is important in her life and does not slink around his dark and dour attitude.
To offset that dramatic and angsty realisation, we get a lovely comedy inset with worried simone blurting a confession to Eimi, which she sunnily accepts ^^. Throwing him into total confusion. There are the dorm residents shining Eimi up, there's the total incomprehensibility of what she likes on a date, and there's grumpy Wanibuchi in the background...
... who gets told what happened in detail by a cheerful Eimi right after the date ^^ (while he's fresh from the bath and only wearing a towel, this time - Matsumoto does major female fan service, as she's well aware), because she can't think why she shouldn't talk it over with Wanichin, she usually does stuff like that with her day.
Then, shortly before she becomes unimportant :P, we get the backstory of Taka's lover, Keito and him. With a lovely thread of a song running through her attraction to him "You make me feel like a Natural Woman".
But the next chapter sets up the emotional switch to the next volume, which Eimi having a dream of Taka crying. It makes her seek him out (there's a lovely highlight to the fact that she treats him like her possession, without any of the distance his attitude or beauty bring to others). Since she doesn't want to study alone in the library, she just asks him to stay, and he indulges her.
Both are in the library because it's exam time and Taka studies for real for the first time because he doesn't want his father to be notified by the teachers if he should slack, so we get some more about the unhappy household he comes from. We also get Eimi just hugging him for comfort, and him feeling comforted.
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July 28, 2009
Skimming through..
October 26, 2011
Loved the series
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December 13, 2011Eimi is so funny
March 6, 2013
I just. I just love Eimi so much xD
May 15, 2015
This volume had some cute moments. I guess I kind of like the series. At first I thought it was going to be an okay series. It kind of is but kind of has moments where its good. Good volume.
October 14, 2015
Plot progression! Eimi! Wanibuchi!! Yay!!
I feel very sorry for Simone, but I unashamedly worship Eimi/Wanichin. And so much happens in this volume. Makes my little heart go pitter patter.
I feel very sorry for Simone, but I unashamedly worship Eimi/Wanichin. And so much happens in this volume. Makes my little heart go pitter patter.
May 31, 2013
Glad Simone and Eimi are getting closer, but I'm still so confused about Taka's feelings for Eimi.
September 5, 2014
OOOOOO...the final book in this series is going to be awesome!
June 11, 2017
I'm so in love with the quirky characters of this series, every volume makes me fall in love even more. I'm excited go read the last volume and see where this love triangle is going to end up!
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