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うわさの翠くん!! [Uwasa no Midori-kun!!] #1
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Gō Ikeyamada
105 books180 followersGō Ikeyamada (池山田剛, born May 25) is a Japanese manga artist. She made her debut with Get Love!! in 2002, which was serialized in Shōjo Comic. Her manga mostly consists for a more young adult audience, due to some explicit content.
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December 6, 2021
Uwasa no Midori-kun!! (うわさの翠くん! which translates to "Midori-kun's Rumor" or "The Rumor of Midori-kun") is actually not that bad of a story. Compared to what happens in Moe Kare!!, Vol. 01, things unfold a lot better and we have less problematic content to contend with.
I'd definitely recommend this story over More Kare!!
As with all manga reviews, this is an overview of the whole series and may contain spoilers as a result.
Like More Kare!! this series does feature a decent helping of mature content, like nudity and sex and death, despite the ultra-cutesy style of the art and the more comedic, upbeat tone of a lot of the story, but I'd say that this series handles things better and steers away from the content that hurt Moe Kare!! so much.
The story focuses on Midori, an islander girl who loves to play soccer and is a bit of a brash tomboy, but has a good heart and cheerful, blithe personality, and how she conceals her gender at an all-boys school so she can get revenge on her childhood love by defeating him at soccer after he tricks her into giving him her virginity.
At the start, Midori and Tsukasa reunite as teenagers after having known each other as children. Midori is thrilled to see him again and all seems to be going well, even kindling into a romance that ends with Midori and Tsukasa having sex. It turns out, however, that Tsukasa's time away has changed him for the worst.
Midori overhears him bragging to his friends that it was easy to seduce Midori, revealing that he'd made a bet over accomplishing such. Not one to take that kind of disrespect and heartbreak lying down, Midori vows revenge and enrolls herself at an all-boys school so she can join the soccer team and defeat Tsukasa, a champion athlete, at the game that dominates his life and appears to be the only thing he cares about: soccer.
At her new school, Midori is immediately found out by another student, Kazuma, who is also a soccer player. He tells Midori to leave the school, finding her reason for being there silly, and that if she doesn't he'll report her, but after seeing Midori play and rescuing her from a situation on the field that would've given away her secret, he agrees to not tell anyone. The two quickly grow close as classmates and teammates, making for a super effective duo on the field, with their other teammates noting how in sync they are.
During this time, Midori runs into Tsukasa again and, throughout the series, Midori is often pulled between her love for Tsukasa (especially after more of his true personality and feelings are shown), her desire to get revenge on him, and her growing relationship with Kazuma, who supports her unconditionally and comes to love her.
I enjoyed the love triangle and the two love interests in this series a lot more than I did in Moe Kare!! The use of the triangle was far more effective and the characters were much more interesting.
Tsukasa isn't perfect, but he has a nice complexity to him. He tries so hard to be this cold, cruel person because of past trauma, but Midori is always able to cut him back down to size, revealing the sweet little boy he used to be, before he became trapped by his soccer career and fame. Through his interactions with Midori, we see Tsukasa change and start to embrace being a better person--feeling more comfortable dropping the guise of indifference and cruelty to admit he is lonely and unhappy, but cares deeply for Midori.
Although the story is about Midori getting revenge on Tsukasa for getting her to sleep with him on false pretenses, Tsukasa isn't at the point where his character cannot be redeemed or understood. Later in the story, we find out that Tsukasa wasn't being totally honest when he was bragging about tricking Midori--he was motivated by jealousy that Midori had remained so warm and cheerful during their time apart, while he'd changed for the worse, having become unhappy and angry with life. In an attempt to lash out at Midori and "dirty" her bright, shiny image, he seduces her, but later regrets it, admitting that the only one dirtied by their coupling was him and that despite denying it, he had always loved Midori.
I think that's an interesting angle to take; Tsukasa is so wrapped up in his own misery that he can't stand that Midori is still as good and wonderful as he remembered her, so he tries to tear her down to feel better, only to realize how pointless and stupid it was; he isn't able to dirty her or tear her down, he only managed to do those things to himself.
Although a lot of the more mature/intimate content tends to center around Tsukasa, I wouldn't exactly consider it to be sexual assault, nor did Tsukasa seem interested in forcing himself on Midori. He kisses her and removes her clothes several times, but it's usually in a certain context and Midori is receptive to his advances. All the times they have sex as well are consensual, even if that first time he convinced Midori to have sex with him by saying he loved her, then lying and saying he didn't so as to purposefully hurt her and push her away after the fact.
I feel like he did something bad, of course, but bad in that it wasn't right to wrap Midori up in his self loathing or weaponize their feelings to hurt her.
Kazuma, on the other hand, is actually a really good love interest. He keeps his jealousy in check and his love for Midori isn't conditional; even when she goes to Tsukasa, he doesn't love or support her any less.
I think there's onw scene where he walks away from her during a match or something, but he quickly realizes that that was the wrong move and returns to supporting her no matter what. I think the worst thing he does is kiss Midori while she's asleep on his shoulder. Even though he ends up seeing her naked several times, he doesn't ever try to force himself on Midori or make threats towards her or even really try to present himself as a sexual option, which is nice. He's an all around upstanding, decent person and I really enjoyed his friendship and romance with Midori.
Even Tsukasa, as jealous as he is of Kazuma, doesn't take those feelings too far and eventually ends up respecting Kazuma as a soccer player and as someone willing to be there for Midori no matter what.
Midori's character is pretty sweet and likeable, though the author really has a thing for naive, easy-to-trick, ultra-cheerful girls because Midori is a lot like Hikaru (as I mentioned in my review of Moe Kare!! the author's heroines tend to be pretty identical), just with a perchance for anger over crying. I ultimately liked her and didn't find her annoying; she had conviction and wasn't so absorbed by revenge that she was unwilling to be kind to Tsukasa or lose herself in the pursuit of showing him up for tricking her and acting out.
Overall, the plot is satisfying and the character enjoyable. While I wouldn't consider the art my favorite and I do have some general dislikes for certain things (I'm not a big sports fan, for example, so the soccer angle was irrelevant to me), it's overall a much better read that Moe Kare!! ever was and had far more depth and complexity with things.
Although you can easily compared Kazuma and Tsukasa to Takara and Arata, I think the archetypes were better executed here. Kazuma is a good guy, but doesn't let his desire to be a good guy get in the way of actually being a good guy and Tsukasa's level of "bad boy" doesn't cross so many lines, nor does he interact with her for the sake of harming another, as was the case with Arata.
Honestly, outside of him pushing her away and the initial "I lied when I said I loved you just to see if I could get you to say yes to sex with me because I was being awful, even though I do in fact love you" moment he generally doesn't act with malice towards Midori, unlike Arata, who eventually ends up legitimately liking Hikaru only after he's tried to use her to hurt Takara several times.
Overall, a sign that the author grew with her series. Like a 3.5 from me.
I'd definitely recommend this story over More Kare!!
As with all manga reviews, this is an overview of the whole series and may contain spoilers as a result.
Like More Kare!! this series does feature a decent helping of mature content, like nudity and sex and death, despite the ultra-cutesy style of the art and the more comedic, upbeat tone of a lot of the story, but I'd say that this series handles things better and steers away from the content that hurt Moe Kare!! so much.
The story focuses on Midori, an islander girl who loves to play soccer and is a bit of a brash tomboy, but has a good heart and cheerful, blithe personality, and how she conceals her gender at an all-boys school so she can get revenge on her childhood love by defeating him at soccer after he tricks her into giving him her virginity.
At the start, Midori and Tsukasa reunite as teenagers after having known each other as children. Midori is thrilled to see him again and all seems to be going well, even kindling into a romance that ends with Midori and Tsukasa having sex. It turns out, however, that Tsukasa's time away has changed him for the worst.
Midori overhears him bragging to his friends that it was easy to seduce Midori, revealing that he'd made a bet over accomplishing such. Not one to take that kind of disrespect and heartbreak lying down, Midori vows revenge and enrolls herself at an all-boys school so she can join the soccer team and defeat Tsukasa, a champion athlete, at the game that dominates his life and appears to be the only thing he cares about: soccer.
At her new school, Midori is immediately found out by another student, Kazuma, who is also a soccer player. He tells Midori to leave the school, finding her reason for being there silly, and that if she doesn't he'll report her, but after seeing Midori play and rescuing her from a situation on the field that would've given away her secret, he agrees to not tell anyone. The two quickly grow close as classmates and teammates, making for a super effective duo on the field, with their other teammates noting how in sync they are.
During this time, Midori runs into Tsukasa again and, throughout the series, Midori is often pulled between her love for Tsukasa (especially after more of his true personality and feelings are shown), her desire to get revenge on him, and her growing relationship with Kazuma, who supports her unconditionally and comes to love her.
I enjoyed the love triangle and the two love interests in this series a lot more than I did in Moe Kare!! The use of the triangle was far more effective and the characters were much more interesting.
Tsukasa isn't perfect, but he has a nice complexity to him. He tries so hard to be this cold, cruel person because of past trauma, but Midori is always able to cut him back down to size, revealing the sweet little boy he used to be, before he became trapped by his soccer career and fame. Through his interactions with Midori, we see Tsukasa change and start to embrace being a better person--feeling more comfortable dropping the guise of indifference and cruelty to admit he is lonely and unhappy, but cares deeply for Midori.
Although the story is about Midori getting revenge on Tsukasa for getting her to sleep with him on false pretenses, Tsukasa isn't at the point where his character cannot be redeemed or understood. Later in the story, we find out that Tsukasa wasn't being totally honest when he was bragging about tricking Midori--he was motivated by jealousy that Midori had remained so warm and cheerful during their time apart, while he'd changed for the worse, having become unhappy and angry with life. In an attempt to lash out at Midori and "dirty" her bright, shiny image, he seduces her, but later regrets it, admitting that the only one dirtied by their coupling was him and that despite denying it, he had always loved Midori.
I think that's an interesting angle to take; Tsukasa is so wrapped up in his own misery that he can't stand that Midori is still as good and wonderful as he remembered her, so he tries to tear her down to feel better, only to realize how pointless and stupid it was; he isn't able to dirty her or tear her down, he only managed to do those things to himself.
Although a lot of the more mature/intimate content tends to center around Tsukasa, I wouldn't exactly consider it to be sexual assault, nor did Tsukasa seem interested in forcing himself on Midori. He kisses her and removes her clothes several times, but it's usually in a certain context and Midori is receptive to his advances. All the times they have sex as well are consensual, even if that first time he convinced Midori to have sex with him by saying he loved her, then lying and saying he didn't so as to purposefully hurt her and push her away after the fact.
I feel like he did something bad, of course, but bad in that it wasn't right to wrap Midori up in his self loathing or weaponize their feelings to hurt her.
Kazuma, on the other hand, is actually a really good love interest. He keeps his jealousy in check and his love for Midori isn't conditional; even when she goes to Tsukasa, he doesn't love or support her any less.
I think there's onw scene where he walks away from her during a match or something, but he quickly realizes that that was the wrong move and returns to supporting her no matter what. I think the worst thing he does is kiss Midori while she's asleep on his shoulder. Even though he ends up seeing her naked several times, he doesn't ever try to force himself on Midori or make threats towards her or even really try to present himself as a sexual option, which is nice. He's an all around upstanding, decent person and I really enjoyed his friendship and romance with Midori.
Even Tsukasa, as jealous as he is of Kazuma, doesn't take those feelings too far and eventually ends up respecting Kazuma as a soccer player and as someone willing to be there for Midori no matter what.
Midori's character is pretty sweet and likeable, though the author really has a thing for naive, easy-to-trick, ultra-cheerful girls because Midori is a lot like Hikaru (as I mentioned in my review of Moe Kare!! the author's heroines tend to be pretty identical), just with a perchance for anger over crying. I ultimately liked her and didn't find her annoying; she had conviction and wasn't so absorbed by revenge that she was unwilling to be kind to Tsukasa or lose herself in the pursuit of showing him up for tricking her and acting out.
Overall, the plot is satisfying and the character enjoyable. While I wouldn't consider the art my favorite and I do have some general dislikes for certain things (I'm not a big sports fan, for example, so the soccer angle was irrelevant to me), it's overall a much better read that Moe Kare!! ever was and had far more depth and complexity with things.
Although you can easily compared Kazuma and Tsukasa to Takara and Arata, I think the archetypes were better executed here. Kazuma is a good guy, but doesn't let his desire to be a good guy get in the way of actually being a good guy and Tsukasa's level of "bad boy" doesn't cross so many lines, nor does he interact with her for the sake of harming another, as was the case with Arata.
Honestly, outside of him pushing her away and the initial "I lied when I said I loved you just to see if I could get you to say yes to sex with me because I was being awful, even though I do in fact love you" moment he generally doesn't act with malice towards Midori, unlike Arata, who eventually ends up legitimately liking Hikaru only after he's tried to use her to hurt Takara several times.
Overall, a sign that the author grew with her series. Like a 3.5 from me.
October 23, 2017
[Reseña Global 10/10]
Uwasa no Midori-kun es un manga entretenido que, pese a no innovar en su género, te hace pasar un rato ameno. Ahora bien, me habría resultado más llevadero de no haber hecho tanto hincapié en ese ideal tan japonés como el de "la mujer es débil y necesita un príncipe que la proteja".
Recomendado para amantes de las historias de romances escolares (no digo del spokon porque el romance tiene más papel que el deporte en sí) o si buscáis una lectura sin muchas complicaciones.
Reseña completa: http://elesconditedelaspalabrasperdid...
Uwasa no Midori-kun es un manga entretenido que, pese a no innovar en su género, te hace pasar un rato ameno. Ahora bien, me habría resultado más llevadero de no haber hecho tanto hincapié en ese ideal tan japonés como el de "la mujer es débil y necesita un príncipe que la proteja".
Recomendado para amantes de las historias de romances escolares (no digo del spokon porque el romance tiene más papel que el deporte en sí) o si buscáis una lectura sin muchas complicaciones.
Reseña completa: http://elesconditedelaspalabrasperdid...
December 6, 2019
2,5 stars
December 31, 2019
Divertido, a los asiaticos les gusta tanto el travestismo del personaje principal.
March 26, 2022
Es bellísimo, la historia es muy buena y los personajes entrañables
February 2, 2018
About the whole series: I read this a while ago, but recently skimmed it. And all I could think about as I skimmed it was, "why am I still wasting my time here?" There are better stories out there just waiting for you to read them.
December 29, 2013
This manga was ABSOLUTELY ADDICTING!
Ok, I know how I said about this author putting sex into her books, but this one had tuned it down, like I had wanted from one of her previous series, Moe Kara.
The plot is fast passed, keeps you swallowing it up and chocking a bit on the very romantic scenes which I gotta say I liked. They weren't really grown-up but not childish at all, so it was in between and a good example of a romantic scene.
About Tsukasa, I'm wondering what this deal of his with the chairman or head of the school was, and why he has to even kill soccer players to succeed, or rather he could if he had to.
The main girl character for once is actually fierce, strong, and has pride, and doesn't give up when a guy like Tsukasa does that to her like in the first chapter.
I dunno why but I kinda want her to end up with Tsukasa, although in this case both guys are really hot so I won't go off dieing if the guy I was originally hoping and rooting for won't get the girl.
Definately looking forward to the rest of this series because it is really good, the art is just eye candy for anime/manga lovers, the bishounen factor is definately there and just everything pieces together perfectly
Ok, I know how I said about this author putting sex into her books, but this one had tuned it down, like I had wanted from one of her previous series, Moe Kara.
The plot is fast passed, keeps you swallowing it up and chocking a bit on the very romantic scenes which I gotta say I liked. They weren't really grown-up but not childish at all, so it was in between and a good example of a romantic scene.
About Tsukasa, I'm wondering what this deal of his with the chairman or head of the school was, and why he has to even kill soccer players to succeed, or rather he could if he had to.
The main girl character for once is actually fierce, strong, and has pride, and doesn't give up when a guy like Tsukasa does that to her like in the first chapter.
I dunno why but I kinda want her to end up with Tsukasa, although in this case both guys are really hot so I won't go off dieing if the guy I was originally hoping and rooting for won't get the girl.
Definately looking forward to the rest of this series because it is really good, the art is just eye candy for anime/manga lovers, the bishounen factor is definately there and just everything pieces together perfectly
April 17, 2015
This one hit so close to home!!
Essere fregata dal solito bellimbusto di turno e poi essere lasciata lì a leccarsi le ferite... Suona molto familiare! Perché sì, insomma, Soobie è tanto sveglia ma alla fine si è fatta fregare lo stesso.
Non so quanto sia adatto questo manga al mio stato d'animo attuale. Il mio cuoricino sta sanguinando ancora e non si vede l'uscita dal tunnel.
Comunque. Mi piace Midori come protagonista. Per questo primo volume almeno. Certo, cedere così facilmente non è stata una buona idea però poi si fa valere. Prendere ed andare a Tokyo pur di sconfiggere Tsukasa... Grandissimo!!
Ovvio, ci sono un po' troppi nudi in questo manga, anche perché Midori ha la pessima abitudine di girare nuda per casa, però la storia è simpatica.
Tra l'altro. Mi sa che farò parte del squadra Shinbashi!!
Ed ora, dritti verso il secondo volume.
Essere fregata dal solito bellimbusto di turno e poi essere lasciata lì a leccarsi le ferite... Suona molto familiare! Perché sì, insomma, Soobie è tanto sveglia ma alla fine si è fatta fregare lo stesso.
Non so quanto sia adatto questo manga al mio stato d'animo attuale. Il mio cuoricino sta sanguinando ancora e non si vede l'uscita dal tunnel.
Comunque. Mi piace Midori come protagonista. Per questo primo volume almeno. Certo, cedere così facilmente non è stata una buona idea però poi si fa valere. Prendere ed andare a Tokyo pur di sconfiggere Tsukasa... Grandissimo!!
Ovvio, ci sono un po' troppi nudi in questo manga, anche perché Midori ha la pessima abitudine di girare nuda per casa, però la storia è simpatica.
Tra l'altro. Mi sa che farò parte del squadra Shinbashi!!
Ed ora, dritti verso il secondo volume.
October 26, 2018
REVIEW FOR THE WHOLE SERIES!!!
I love this mangaaaa! Although yes, I agree that it's the usual story like a girl pretending to be a boy to take revenge on some guy he loves, I still love the story and how it go! I can't really count how many times this manga make me laugh, say "Aw", and smile. I love the moments and I truly enjoyed reading this one. Though, some questions and maybe impossible things that I got for this manga is that, it's impossible for them not to know that Midori is a girl since her breasts is showing most of the time lol. But well, everything is possible in mangas. Haha. I like the ending as well. I like Kazuma but I must say that I like Tsukasa too so it's a 50/50 feelings. Lol. But I like it that all of them got the happiness they deserve. 4/5 stars for this manga!
I love this mangaaaa! Although yes, I agree that it's the usual story like a girl pretending to be a boy to take revenge on some guy he loves, I still love the story and how it go! I can't really count how many times this manga make me laugh, say "Aw", and smile. I love the moments and I truly enjoyed reading this one. Though, some questions and maybe impossible things that I got for this manga is that, it's impossible for them not to know that Midori is a girl since her breasts is showing most of the time lol. But well, everything is possible in mangas. Haha. I like the ending as well. I like Kazuma but I must say that I like Tsukasa too so it's a 50/50 feelings. Lol. But I like it that all of them got the happiness they deserve. 4/5 stars for this manga!
November 13, 2012
UGHH!!! this manga's so good & i've yet to find scans or books for vol 8 and on ;-;
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