ロマンチカ クロック 4

ロマンチカクロック [Romantica Clock] #4

by Yōko Maki, 槙ようこ

蒼のいる特進クラスにイケメン転校生・歩睦がやってきて、いきなり蒼にライバル宣言！　杏花音と一緒に試験勉強する歩睦…何かをたくらんでいる!?　杏花音と蒼の関係もさらに進む、HAPPYいっぱい！　ツインズストーリー第4巻☆　【同時収録】ロマンチカ クロック 番外編／まひろちゃんの

Genres: Manga, Romance

193 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 14, 2014

About the author

槙ようこ, Maki-sensei speaks of herself in the third person. Has a mangaka sister, Aki Mochida.

Pet: Leo, dog
Height: 164.5 cmv

Reviews

[Annemarie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was really scared I was losing interest in this, but thankfully this volume was beter than the last. The new characters work really well in the story and the character development is great as well.

[Bibliothecat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review for complete series

I am so sad about this; I really like Yoko Maki and I thought I would love this series as her works have continuously been getting better. Romantica Clock tells the story of twins Akane and Aoi - the former is naive and happy-go-lucky whilst the latter is studious and somewhat stoic. With Maki's beautiful art, this should have been a perfectly lovely story about the dynamics between these polar opposite twins, their family and social life, school struggles and of course romance. And while it had all that, it was just so... boring.

I generally liked the characters but I don't feel as though we ever got to know them properly. I can't relate to why Akane feels so extremely competitive toward her brother Aoi. Most of the other family members felt redundant and friends were introduced left and right without us ever truly getting to know them. The romance was even worse - Akane and her love interest might be very cute but she is much too immature for me to feel invested in them. I don't understand why he likes her and her liking him back feels just like a whim. Aoi's romance on the other hand isn't even cute, it's bland and comes across as entirely one sided.

All in all, it is still a cute manga but it could have been so much more and it should not have taken me as long as it did to finish this (6 weeks for 10 volumes!). It was just so bland and uneventful that the only thing left for me to truly like was the beautiful art. It's also not a genre thing as I can enjoy slice of life stories as well as sweet romances with young characters. There's just something missing in Romantica Clock and it really saddens me given that I like the author.

[Soobie has fog in her brain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beh, devo dire che Ayumu, appena apparso, non mi stava molto simpatico. Però poi non si può non fare il tifo per lui. É un cucciolo!

Akane vuole frequentare le stesse superiori di Aoi e per questo si mette a studiare con una costanza incredibile. Roba che passa dieci ore al giorno sui libri. Non credo di averlo mai fatto in vita mai! Di sicuro non alle medie, ma neanche ai tempi dell'uni.

La storia di Milk è molto carina. Da un lato non mi piace che l'autrice rubi spazio alla storia principale per inserire alcune storie bonus, ma se sono così carine si può fare un'eccezione!

[Kristin ✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

finally a scanlation team picked this up again!

[LM · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have not so much to say about this Romantica Clock volume, but I liked it more than the previous ones, that’s why I gave 3.5 stars.

I really love the characters, and this is, in my opinion, one of the most important points for a good Shojo manga. Akane is a great protagonist for the story. The story itself resolves around some typical Shojo plot points, like a summer school, but it was still executed well. The romance itself though is not as well executed, since the characters fall way too fast into love and out of it again.