Tokimeki Gakuen Ōjigumi

by Aya Nakahara

If you wanted to find a good-looking guy, where would you look? The answer is easy – it’s the “Tokimeki Campus”. Here, the whole place is overflowing with princes! However, most of them already lead a wonderful love life. Starting from a narcissist, you’re going to be introduced to the colorful stories of the campus!

Genres: Manga, Comics

159 pages, Comic

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Aya Nakahara is an award-winning Japanese comic book author who made her debut in 1995. She is most famous for her Kansai-dialect romantic comedy series Lovely Complex (also known as ラブ★コン or Love★Com) which as well as spawning a feature film and a 24-episode animated television series has been translated into many different languages and has been published across the world.

She primarily writes in the romance and romantic comedy genres. Her most recent work is Dame no Watashi Koishite kudasai R (ダメな私に恋してくださいR).

See also 中原アヤ.

Reviews

[Gi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Las historias son chistosas (especialmente la primera) y tiernas. Sin embargo, pueden resultar un tanto predecibles y cliché, pero tampoco es que pretendan no serlo. Son historias cortas y súper simples, ideal para cuando uno quiere leer algo liviano para pasar el rato, nada demasiado complejo o profundo.

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has four stories set in the same school and tied together with the themes of student council and the upcoming school festival. I wasn't sure how much I was going to like this at first, because it starts off looking really cracky. The school is named Tokimeki Academy (like, Heart-Racing Academy) and later a student transfers from Yakimochi Academy (Jealousy Academy), and instead of having class numbers, they're like Rose Class, Lily Class, Sunflower Class, etc. which might be appropriate for kindergartners, but is ridiculous otherwise.

So because of those elements, I was figuring it would be too over-the-top for my tastes, but as it turned out, the stories themselves were pretty standard fare. Each one is about a girl who ends up with a boy who is called something-something Prince (one was the Honey Prince because he was so cute and sweet, one was the Festival Prince because he loved school festivals, etc). I enjoyed them all, though the last one had a trope I dislike, the "boy shows girl how to have fun in life because he knows better" trope. (Though that's somewhat balanced out because one of the other stories was a girl showing a boy how to have fun in life.)

[Melody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Connecting stories before the school festival.

[August A.P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute manga. Classic princes story-but-not-really-classic. There's four stories about each other princes. Who the best? I think they all equal, but I think I can say that story no 2 and 4 is more interesting (but story 1 and 3 is same too) but yeah, I'll pick those.