新條まゆ in Japanese Mayu Shinjo debuted in 1994 in Shogakukan's Shōjo Comic with "Anata no Iro ni Somaritai". She continued writing for Shogakukan until 2007, with her works appearing in both Shōjo Comic and their other magazine Cheese!. She left the company to go freelance citing a dispute over working conditions and abusive treatment by her editor.
This was actually close to being my favorite one :D the story was great, I love how we got a a glimpse on a backstory on Yuki. It was so interesting to find out he actually was Anne's step brother which makes a lot more sense. The storyline was really strong and really loved how it flowed, might pick up the rest of the series. But I'm going to have to leave that world for now. But overall a fantastic read.
I've recently been looking through my blog and I found that I had yet to review Mayu Shinjo's works. So I thought why not to start in a kind of chronological order; with her longest and most famous works - Sensual Phrase.
I have read this particular work at least 3 times, and nevertheless, I am always intrigued and sucked in the story as if I was reading for the first time. In the beginning, I was thinking of doing several reviews for this one, but then somehow ended up only doing one. And truth be told, I even lost the raw of the review, so right now I am writing whatever I remember from it. I didn't really have time to reread it again and write another review.
The story is fantastic and the characters are amazing. If you are up for a shobiz story, this is from where you should start. Get to know Sakuya and Aine, and get to know the most popular band in history - Lucifer. Are you ready to find out if the showbiz is just fame? or are you ready to dig deaper and find out what it mean to be famous? Lucifer will give you an insight to everything!
So how does everything start? Imagine, being a high-schooler (I'm in university so...) and writing sensual lyrics. And now imagine this, you were nearly run over by a car, and the person who steps out of it is a vocalist of a super popular band. All ends well, but then try to imagine this: your song is sang by that popular band and especially without your concent! And now you are asked to be a song writer. Awesome? yup, but that's not all, you'll have to read the story to get a chance to meet Aine and Sakuya. you will be having fun, but at the same time you will see that the story has many life issues. You won't be able to stop reading once you start!
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I thought this volume was a lot better than the last one. Probably because the crazy lead singer from that 'Jesus' band is finally gone. Thank god for that. There was more of Aine and Sakuya which I loved. It was nice to see their cute moments and the sweet things they said to one another. In this one, Aine thinks she might be pregnant. She's freaking out and puking everywhere. She doesn't know how to tell Sakuya about her worries. To be honest, I wouldn't be all that surprised if Sakuya knocked up Aine since they are having unprotected sex 24/7. It seems like every couple hours Sakuya goes crazy and jumps her. Actually, now that I've thought about it, I'm kind of shocked that this scenario didn't come up way earlier. If this is how Sakuya treats every girlfriend of his, I bet he has like fifty illegitimate children floating around.
I'm not sure how happy I am about this new band that's trying to upstage Lucifer. The last rival band had Tomoyuki whose scenes in the manga made me want to stab myself in the eyes. Hopefully, these new people aren't too crazy. Tomoyuki was a psychotic sister-lover, so this band can't possible be any worse than that nutjob. Either way, it probably won't matter since the conflict will most likely be over by the end of the volume or the next...
Book six introduces a couple of new wrinkles in the love-lives of Aine and Sakuya. First, Sakuya goes public with their romance, and second, Aine worries with pregnancy concerns. I'm glad the series is tackling these issues, bringing this fairy tale a bit more into the real world and it works to solidify the feeling that lucky Aine is Every Girl, and that anyone's fondest dreams could, indeed, actually happen.
Not my favorite one. it was kind of short and abrupt. I get that it was due to her showing Yuki and Atsuro's story, but it's not like they are major characters or anything.