花とみつばち 1

花とみつばち [Hana to Mitsubachi] #1

by Moyoco Anno, 安野モヨコ

お待たせっ！あの安野モヨコが青年コミック初降臨

みんな知りたい女のコの秘密
モテたいけれどモテないアナタ。この1冊でギャルのハートがわかるカモ！？本当のモテは果てしなく遠いぜ……。

Genres: Manga, Seinen, Comics

212 pages, B6

First published April 6, 2000

About the author

See also: 安野モヨコ

Moyoko Anno (安野 モヨコ) is a Japanese manga artist and a fashion writer, with numerous books published in both categories. Her manga and books have attained considerable popularity among young women in Japan. Though she primarily writes manga of the josei demographic, her most popular series, Sugar Sugar Rune, (serialized in Nakayoshi) is targeted at primary school-aged girls. In a recent Oricon poll, she was voted the number eight most popular manga artist among females and thirteen in the general category. Her manga Happy Mania was made into a television series in 1998, followed by Hataraki Man in October 2007. Sakuran was made into a movie in 2006.
In the movie Japan Sinks, she has a cameo role alongside her husband; their characters were also married. The movie was directed by Shinji Higuchi, who, like her husband Hideaki Anno, is a co-founder of Gainax.

Anno won the 29th Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2005 for Sugar Sugar Rune.

Visit her blog: http://www.annomoyoco.com/blog/

Reviews

[Katey Lovell · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

I wasn't a huge fan of this - I got it from the library because it sounded interesting. Premise was good and liked that males were trying to change appearance for female attention - so often in fiction it is the reverse so that was a bit of a twist. However the art wasn't really a style I found visually appealing, I didn't really relate to any characters and the final page was really inappropriate in my opinion and out of keeping with the rest of the book. I won't be in a rush to read more of this series.

[Sucre · Rating 1 out of 5]

hoo boy this one is rough. lots of homophobia, (including slurs) thrown around, lots of adults preying on minors, and then the ending cliffhanger is a couple of adult women planning on raping the high schooler main character???? I've read a lot for moyocco anno's art but this is the first series that has actually lowered my opinion of her and one I will not be continuing.

[S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Boy seeking perfection in boredom, bites off more than he can chew in this modern tale of a not-so-hero's' journey.

[Nausicaa °.*･｡ﾟ · Rating 1 out of 5]

alors entre les insultes homophobes, les femmes dépeintes comme superficielles et vénales... à ça s'ajoute des relations TRÈS abusives (viols, adultes qui veulent coucher avec des mineurs)... ce manga est juste horrible. ne lisez pas ça.
je comprends pas comment Miyocco Anno a pu écrite cette horreur d'un côté et Chocola et Vanilla (qui est INCROYABLE) de l'autre????

[Jocilyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it's quite telling that people have tagged this series as being both seinen and shoujo. The story structure and characterization definitely feel seinen, while the themes and art style is reminiscent of Anno-sensei's other shoujo series. I guess I enjoyed this volume, but I'm not sure I would buy the whole series.

[Chani · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mouais j'ai vraiment pas aimé le graphisme avec les grosses bouches de batraciens ...

[Spring Holbrook · Rating 3 out of 5]

This manga is pretty interesting. I like seeing a guy in the role that a girl usually plays, trying to make himself more attractive in order to get attention from the girl he likes.