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プリティフェイス [Pretty Face] #1
Pretty Face, Vol. 1
He wanted to be her boyfriend...He'll settle for being her twin sister!
When his school bus crashes, teenage karate star Rando is sent into a coma. A year later he wakes up to find that his disfigured face has been reconstructed in the image of his secret crush, Rina! Not knowing what Rando originally looked like, the mad plastic surgeon Dr. Manabe used a photo in Rando's pocket as the model for his reconstructive surgery. Abandoned by his friends and parents, the all-new Rando is mistaken for his would-be girlfriend's long-lost twin sister and adopted into her family. Can he put aside his feelings and be a good "big sister" to Rina...when he's still a teenage boy from the waist down?
When his school bus crashes, teenage karate star Rando is sent into a coma. A year later he wakes up to find that his disfigured face has been reconstructed in the image of his secret crush, Rina! Not knowing what Rando originally looked like, the mad plastic surgeon Dr. Manabe used a photo in Rando's pocket as the model for his reconstructive surgery. Abandoned by his friends and parents, the all-new Rando is mistaken for his would-be girlfriend's long-lost twin sister and adopted into her family. Can he put aside his feelings and be a good "big sister" to Rina...when he's still a teenage boy from the waist down?
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 4, 2002
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August 26, 2022
3/5 Rando Masashi is in a bus accident that brutally disfigure him, though oddly everyone else on the bus seams to have walked away unscathed. Yet for some bizarre reason the doctor who saves him can’t figure out who he is so reconstructs Rando’s face based on a picture in Rando’s wallet which belongs to his crush Rina. He is then mistaken for Rina’s missing twin sister Yuna.
If this all seems far fetched it’s because it is. Ridiculously so.
The manga itself is ok and maybe I’ve grown away from this a little or maybe I’ve just read and watched a lot better since I read the first few volumes over a decade ago. I figured to go and cross it off my list since I never actually finished it. And since it’s only 6 volumes long I’ll at least give it the ol college try.
Rando w/ Yuan’s face on the cover of Volume 1.
Read 8/25/22
If this all seems far fetched it’s because it is. Ridiculously so.
The manga itself is ok and maybe I’ve grown away from this a little or maybe I’ve just read and watched a lot better since I read the first few volumes over a decade ago. I figured to go and cross it off my list since I never actually finished it. And since it’s only 6 volumes long I’ll at least give it the ol college try.
Rando w/ Yuan’s face on the cover of Volume 1.
Read 8/25/22
October 13, 2007
Okay, I have a thing for boys and girls who cross-dress in manga. See my love for Tenshi ja Nai! or W Juliet... Hell, look at Ouran Koukou Host Club. This one's up there too... I picked it up because the art looked nice, and being a Shonen Jump Advanced title, I was hoping for something that was fairly interesting, and it really didn't disappoint.
Basic story? Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. Neither knows this about the other. Boy is in bus crash and is so horribly burned, that his family thinks he's dead. An insane doctor fixes him up with plastic surgery to look like the picture he had in his wallet of the girl. Girl now mistakes him for her long-lost twin sister. Cue hilarity.
Really.
It's better than it sounds.
Basic story? Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. Neither knows this about the other. Boy is in bus crash and is so horribly burned, that his family thinks he's dead. An insane doctor fixes him up with plastic surgery to look like the picture he had in his wallet of the girl. Girl now mistakes him for her long-lost twin sister. Cue hilarity.
Really.
It's better than it sounds.
August 22, 2014
Was bored after a few chapters. A bit repetitive and there's tons of hentai things going on for that male MC. This is very much a guy manga.
January 2, 2016
Wha... what? WTF is this?! First book of the year and it's TERRIBLE! It can only go up from here. RIGHT GUYZ?! RIGHT?!
Stay strong Alisi! New full length Moon book comes this year. T_T
Stay strong Alisi! New full length Moon book comes this year. T_T
January 23, 2018
I read this years ago , back when I first discovered/ got into manga and anime !
I remember really liking it at the time , even now it's still solid , I picked it up out of nostslgia and I really needed a good laugh !
Basically the main character is this typical shonen MC strong , idiot ,boisterous , arrogant , though with a kind heart AND a crush on a cute serious girl from his school .
Someday he gets in an accident that leaves him comatose along with disfiguring burns that render him unrecognised even by his parents who along with everyone else believes him to be dead , the weird thing is he wakes up with the face of the girl he had a a crush on ! and from then on his adventures and misfortunes begin !
Don't worry I didn't spoil anything !
Anyhow the art looks great and it's pretty cute , the characters are quite ridiculous and provide the most entertaining comedy I've seen , for me it does what it do best in the Genere.
It's also pretty short 6 Vol. , highly recommended for those who seek a good laugh !
I remember really liking it at the time , even now it's still solid , I picked it up out of nostslgia and I really needed a good laugh !
Basically the main character is this typical shonen MC strong , idiot ,boisterous , arrogant , though with a kind heart AND a crush on a cute serious girl from his school .
Someday he gets in an accident that leaves him comatose along with disfiguring burns that render him unrecognised even by his parents who along with everyone else believes him to be dead , the weird thing is he wakes up with the face of the girl he had a a crush on ! and from then on his adventures and misfortunes begin !
Don't worry I didn't spoil anything !
Anyhow the art looks great and it's pretty cute , the characters are quite ridiculous and provide the most entertaining comedy I've seen , for me it does what it do best in the Genere.
It's also pretty short 6 Vol. , highly recommended for those who seek a good laugh !
July 31, 2022
This was okay but it’s creepy, sexist, and pervy. I know there are genres of Manga that are even more hardcore than this but this just kind of made me feel icky. I should have known from reading the premise but it was highly recommended as one of the better Mangas out there but it’s super juvenile and somewhat off putting. The illustrations are done to where the main character just looks angry all of the time and comes off as scary because of it.
January 1, 2019
It's just not very believable. I know manga can be weird and wacky, but this doesn't seem like something that could happen in any non-dystopian universe. Doctors aren't given free reign to make unknown patients into whatever image they please. It's just too ridiculous to get behind, and it's not like the characters are so amazing that you're sucked in regardless.
March 27, 2022
Trop absurde pour que soit amusant.
Trop de bagarres pour un shonen.
Masashi est vraiment terrible : j’imagine que ça donne beaucoup de possibilités pour fair évoluer son personnage, mais c’est vraiment difficile d’être intéressée à ses aventures quand il est un tel tyran!
Ça n’a pas marché pour moi.
Trop de bagarres pour un shonen.
Masashi est vraiment terrible : j’imagine que ça donne beaucoup de possibilités pour fair évoluer son personnage, mais c’est vraiment difficile d’être intéressée à ses aventures quand il est un tel tyran!
Ça n’a pas marché pour moi.
October 12, 2022
This manga will definitely strain your "suspension of disbelief." Despite that, it's not bad and I give the author kudos for storytelling. There is a lot of silliness in volume 1, but a longer-term story is also suggested.
March 9, 2018
not a very interesting story
March 19, 2018
This is utterly absurd and hilarious tbh.
April 30, 2018
Odd but not unenjoyable.
December 28, 2021
It’s trashy but I kind of love it. It isn’t good “representation” for any stripe of queer person. But it’s pretty funny and honestly occasionally kind of relatable.
May 16, 2022
In concept it's pretty weird. In action it seems like something that can't be forgiven and should be sent into jail
March 13, 2017
Funny and story with some great characters. Rondo's difficulty adjusting to his live as a girl make for a fun and amusing roller coaster of a read.
August 24, 2023
Rando was the teenage karate star of his high school. He secretly had a crush on a cute, smart girl from his school, but never told her. Turns out, she liked him too. This is all past tense because Rando is involved in a bus crash that burned his face off (there is a picture) and the mad doctor who reconstructed his face used the picture of his secret crush (Rina) as a template. So now, after a year in a coma, Rando has the face of a girl and the body parts down below of a man.
Turns out his secret crush had a twin sister who ran away from home nearly 2 years early. He is mistaken for that twin sister and taken in, after all, his family thinks he's dead. Now Rando is trying to act like Rina's twin sister at his old school where he finds out just how much everyone hated him for his bullying ways, but it's hard to let go of who you once were. Rando commits himself to the act though, not wanting to crush Rina's heart (and lose the only place left to him in the world).
This book was a bit heavy on the boob obsession and panty flashing... for a person who is trying to blend in and act like a girl, I didn't feel like Rando was trying very hard.
However, the series is only 6 books long so I might keep reading it (though I hear many people loathed the ending).
I will say that Ouran High School Host Club and W Juliet are far more tactful and cute gender-bender series. This one relies a lot on crude humor and flashes of bras, boobs, and panties to get by.
Turns out his secret crush had a twin sister who ran away from home nearly 2 years early. He is mistaken for that twin sister and taken in, after all, his family thinks he's dead. Now Rando is trying to act like Rina's twin sister at his old school where he finds out just how much everyone hated him for his bullying ways, but it's hard to let go of who you once were. Rando commits himself to the act though, not wanting to crush Rina's heart (and lose the only place left to him in the world).
This book was a bit heavy on the boob obsession and panty flashing... for a person who is trying to blend in and act like a girl, I didn't feel like Rando was trying very hard.
However, the series is only 6 books long so I might keep reading it (though I hear many people loathed the ending).
I will say that Ouran High School Host Club and W Juliet are far more tactful and cute gender-bender series. This one relies a lot on crude humor and flashes of bras, boobs, and panties to get by.
September 24, 2011
The most hilarious premise ever. Honestly.
A boy--kind of a rough, bully guy--is on the school bus when it crashes. Everyone else gets out all right... he gets his face burned off and everyone thinks he's dead. He's in a coma for nearly a year/a year.
When he wakes up, his limbs are all skinny and weak from lack of exercise. Then he sees himself in the mirror and freaks out. The crazy doctor--who's a fascinating character all himself, and is a regular throughout the series--tells him that he got his face burned off. So the doctor looked in his pockets for a picture of him, and finds a picture of a beautiful girl... the boy's crush, because why would he have a picture of himself, amirite?
Now the boy looks like the girl he has a crush on--Pretty Face. Events unfold, he ends up living at the girl's house as the replacement for her twin sister, and they precede to go on crazy adventures where he has to try hard not to reveal the fact that he's a boy.
Funny, cute series. Worth the read.
A boy--kind of a rough, bully guy--is on the school bus when it crashes. Everyone else gets out all right... he gets his face burned off and everyone thinks he's dead. He's in a coma for nearly a year/a year.
When he wakes up, his limbs are all skinny and weak from lack of exercise. Then he sees himself in the mirror and freaks out. The crazy doctor--who's a fascinating character all himself, and is a regular throughout the series--tells him that he got his face burned off. So the doctor looked in his pockets for a picture of him, and finds a picture of a beautiful girl... the boy's crush, because why would he have a picture of himself, amirite?
Now the boy looks like the girl he has a crush on--Pretty Face. Events unfold, he ends up living at the girl's house as the replacement for her twin sister, and they precede to go on crazy adventures where he has to try hard not to reveal the fact that he's a boy.
Funny, cute series. Worth the read.
September 19, 2013
Well now, wasn't this a fun but of PG-rated shojo manga! Cute, amusing, and deliciously twisted, it's the story of an arrogant bully who is horribly mangled and left for dead after a bus crash, only to have his face reconstructed in the image of his high-school crush (whose photo he keeps in his wallet).
It's a rather preposterous scenario, but the book quickly owns up to the fact, which makes the whole thing a bit more clever than I expected. Although the usual manga exaggerated facial expressions and dialogue are here, the story is actually told very well through the characters.
You really come to emphasize with Rando, finally coming so close to the girl he loves, but being unable to express his love . . . outside of an excruciatingly teasing big sister/best friend sort of way. Rina slowly changes the young man, redeeming the jock/jerk he used to be, while Dr. Manabe keeps trying to push him into a complete sex change.
Definitely a fun story, although I'm not sure there's enough depth to make me want to read the other 5 instalments.
It's a rather preposterous scenario, but the book quickly owns up to the fact, which makes the whole thing a bit more clever than I expected. Although the usual manga exaggerated facial expressions and dialogue are here, the story is actually told very well through the characters.
You really come to emphasize with Rando, finally coming so close to the girl he loves, but being unable to express his love . . . outside of an excruciatingly teasing big sister/best friend sort of way. Rina slowly changes the young man, redeeming the jock/jerk he used to be, while Dr. Manabe keeps trying to push him into a complete sex change.
Definitely a fun story, although I'm not sure there's enough depth to make me want to read the other 5 instalments.
June 19, 2008
I picked this up after flipping through one of those sample chapter collections that they pass out at the conventions. Pretty silly premise. The blurb on the back goes: "He wanted to be her boyfriend... He'll settle for being her twin sister." Rando is a rough and tumble high school student who's in love with a quiet girl. One day he gets into an accident, and a year later he wakes up with the face of crush, because the mad doctor who did the reconstructive surgery couldn't figure out what he looked like and her picture was the only one in his wallet. It's rated for Older Teens with mature content, mostly because there are a lot of boob shots as you can imagine esp. when a character is trying to hide their gender. It was actually pretty interesting and entertaining because it does explore some gender identity and social issues. Much less ecchi (perverted) than I thought it would be.
January 15, 2008
its sooo hilarious!!! :D
i don't remember fully, but this is going to have some spoilers in it :D
this guy had fallen for a girl, but because he had like a thug rep, he never got the nerve to ask the girl out. But one day during a car accident, he was burned and a plastic surgeon rescued his complexion. But his family had moved away, and there were no remaining pics of him because he skipped out on all of the school pics. Instead, he always kept a picture of the girl, and once he had awoken, he saw himself...in the face of his lover!!!
OH MY GAWD!!!! its super long volumes, but totally worth reading!!!! :DDDD
i don't remember fully, but this is going to have some spoilers in it :D
this guy had fallen for a girl, but because he had like a thug rep, he never got the nerve to ask the girl out. But one day during a car accident, he was burned and a plastic surgeon rescued his complexion. But his family had moved away, and there were no remaining pics of him because he skipped out on all of the school pics. Instead, he always kept a picture of the girl, and once he had awoken, he saw himself...in the face of his lover!!!
OH MY GAWD!!!! its super long volumes, but totally worth reading!!!! :DDDD
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 31, 2012
Incredibly implausible premise. Dude gets in an accident, everyone thinks he's dead, but a surgeon has reconstructed his face based on a pic of a girl he likes. So now he looks like her, apart from still being a dude. And it turns out she has a twin sister who ran away two years ago. So now he gets to be her.
See? Told you it was implausible.
Wacky hijinks ensue. Mostly involving half-naked or fully naked girls. (Srsly, girls don't act like that when there aren't boys around. Just so you know.)
See? Told you it was implausible.
Wacky hijinks ensue. Mostly involving half-naked or fully naked girls. (Srsly, girls don't act like that when there aren't boys around. Just so you know.)
March 23, 2008
Never read Manga before and I have to say you have to develop new reading muscles to get use to it!
An amusing read if you can get past the fact that in this world it seems the most powerful force in Universe is coincidence.
Frankly I could just never really get into the improbable premise, and I have a pretty well developed ability to suspend disbelief.
An amusing read if you can get past the fact that in this world it seems the most powerful force in Universe is coincidence.
Frankly I could just never really get into the improbable premise, and I have a pretty well developed ability to suspend disbelief.
February 18, 2013
kind of...exactly what you would expect for a manga about a teenage boy who, after being injured in a car accident, is accidentally given the face of the girl he has a crush on and accepted into her family as her long-lost identical twin.
November 15, 2008
The two words I feel best describe this series are: dementably fun. While Pretty Face is by no means the best manga I've read, it was at the very least entertaining, earning a few snickers on my part.
August 17, 2014
I can honestly say I could have found a better way to spend my time. They was a lot of booty showing and such and I would rather not have all of that in my head. Though, there are some amusing parts, there are not enough to say that I would read these books again.
August 6, 2007
One of the funniest mangas out there. It's meant for teenage boys, but I think that most people who like comedy and manga would get a kick out of it.
October 23, 2007
funny!!!but, i cant find the rest of the books,,,
wondering how the end, is the best part....
wondering how the end, is the best part....
August 21, 2008
Kind of wacky and weird, but good none-the-less.
April 9, 2009
[Series Length: 6 volumes / Read: volumes 1-6]
AUTHOR = Yasuhiro Kano
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AUTHOR = Yasuhiro Kano
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October 12, 2008
I am enjoying this series. It made me laugh the poor guy waking up and discovering that he know has a female face. The doctor is funny.
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