Ternyata Daisy yang selama ini selalu melindungi Teru adalah Kurosaki. Teru terkejut sekali mengetahuinya. Namun, agar bisa terus bersama dengan Kurosaki, Teru memutuskan untuk berpura-pura tidak tahu mengenai hal itu. Dekat tapi terasa tidak dekat... Suatu ketika, tiba-tiba saja sebuah musibah menimpa dua orang yang saling menyayangi itu.
Kyousuke Motomi (最富キョウスケ Motomi Kyōsuke) is a Japanese mangaka whose stories have frequently been published in the monthly Betsucomi magazine. She is most currently working on Dengeki Daisy.
She uses a male pseudonym and draws herself as a man, but she's actually female."If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy!" - Kyousuke Motomi
There's some awkwardness between Teru and Kurosaki,since Teru finally found out who Daisy actually is. All I can say is: duh, girl, no shit Sherlock. But then she's able to keep pretending not to know the truth.
Teru also tries a new hairstyle and gets complimented by Kurosaki - not to mention later, when it's raining outside and Teu is helping Kuroski with some janitorial chores, he's practically drooling just from seeing her neck. He's such a closet pervert.
And since Teru wants Kurosaki to like her she decides to do the stereotypical highschooler thing and make him jealous. So can you guess what happens next? Teru gets invited to go on a goukon. Meanwhile, Kurosaki gets a fever and is on bed rest, and once Teru hears that he's sick from Riko (one of my fav characters so far, I hope she finds loves again), she changes her mind about the goukon and goes home instead to care for Kurosaki.
Someone is pretending to be DAISY and hacking the school's website, making threats and contacting Teru, and once again she's being bullied by her schoolmates for knowing Daisy.
In this volume you get to know Teru's deceased older brother a bit better, he seemed to be pretty hilarious, although I don't know what's with Japanese and sister-complex, it seriously creeps me out sometimes. You also learn why Daisy is called Daisy, and not something else.
I had stopped reading this series a while ago and recently, when at the library, picked it up again. I sort of regret doing that.
This was okay at surface level. But as you actually look into it and scrutinize it, there are a lot of problems.
Here’s the issues I found:
1)Poor Storytelling - I wasn’t sure why things were happening. I just knew that something was happening. - Occasionally there was confusing paneling.
2)Unsure/Weird Art - Why does the male lead have 1-2” thick eyeliner? (Why does this mangaka enjoy drawing that on all her males?) - Sometimes some perspectives were drawn wrong. - What’s up with the hair???
3)A Concerning Age Gap - How far apart are the future couple in ages? All I can tell is that the guy is an adult and she is around 14. That’s an issue.
4)Poor Character Creation - I feel like a lot of the issues in the storytelling was because of the lack of valid motives in characters.
5)Poor Pacing - This series could have been finished last volume if not for some unresolved plot points. - (Spoiler!) I feel like she shouldn’t have found out that he was DAISY already. It kind of ruined the story.
6)Abuse Brushed Off as Jokes - Yes, I’m talking about all those times he hurt her ‘just because.’ It was done in a way that was supposed to come off as comedic. Um no.
I need to remember that I don’t enjoy this series. A lot of other people love it, but I can only see the issues.
Ah, this series just keeps getting better and better. It's so hilarious too! Man, Riko is my hero! She's so fabulous!
This review is mostly going to be pictures of Kurosaki...cuz... dang he's hot! XD
I love when he wears his hat!!
His sweet face is so adorable!!
I just about died when I got to this panel and my reaction was: You don't have to tell me twice!! (haha, but he was talking about the necklace she was wearing :-p)
Best line of the entire volume: Daisy, it's Teru. I punched a ghost for the first time in my life.
The librarian at my library forced me to check this series out. She literally went to the bookshelf and came back with the first three volumes of the series. Talk about being assertive!
That said, I wasn't as keen to check it out, so it's probably a good thing that someone did it for me or I might never have given the story a chance - the reason being that the cover art bugs me. I told my husband that and he asked me what series cover art do I actually like and that made me pause for a moment. Out of the nearly 40 series that I've read, only a few came to mind. Anyway, talk about not judging a book by its cover...it's just that when it comes to manga, you do judge a story by its art and if the cover art bugs me then, well, enough on that. I chose to make my review on volume 4 because out of the 5 volumes out now, I can tolerate volume 4 the best.
So, Dengeki Daisy. As with a lot of (okay, most of) shoujo manga, Dengeki Daisy is peppered with cliche after cliche. I actually don't mind the cliches so long as the characters are likeable and there's an actual plot that actually goes somewhere. In this cliche set up, we've got Teru, who is an orphan. Before he died, Teru's older brother left her a person that she can contact when she needs someone to talk to. This person is DAISY. Teru is able to contact DAISY through text messages on her phone. By talking to this person electronically (dengeki could probably be translated as electric), Teru finds the emotional support to help her through bullying and loneliness as she navigates high school life on her own.
What follows is a cute romantic comedy that has some tragic undertones. Dengeki Daisy might be considered a high school version of "You've Got Mail" which was a modern day version of "The Shop Around the Corner". The humor is witty, the characters are extremely likeable (especially our spunky heroine, which is an absolute must), and the art is nice and clean. This series is pure fun - no deep philosophies about life found here - but that's its intent and it does it well. Recommended for those who have a weakness for cute romantic comedies.
Das ist der 4. Band der „Dengeki Daisy“ Reihe von Kyosuke Motomi. Ich kann euch nur empfehlen, die Mangas wirklich in der richtigen Reihenfolge zu lesen. Die Mangas erzählen nämlich eine fortlaufende Geschichte. Es geht um Teru, die ihren Bruder verloren hat. Bevor er starb, gab er ihr ein Handy, durch das sie Kontakt zu einer unbekannten Person mit dem Decknamen Daisy aufnehmen kann, die sie fortan beschützen soll. Teru versucht, etwas über Daisys Identität herauszufinden und erlebt dabei einige Abenteuer. Was da alles so passiert, könnt ihr dann ja selbst lesen.
Auch der 4. Teil hat mir wieder richtig gut gefallen! Man erfährt viele Hintergründe über Daisys Vergangenheit, weshalb die Geschichte dieses Mal besonders tiefgründig und emotional ist. Ich liebe den Zeichenstil, die Charaktere und die vielen spritzigen Wortgefechte! Dieser Manga bietet wieder eine tolle Mischung aus lustigen, spannenden und herzerwärmenden Momenten. Von mir gibt es daher eine Leseempfehlung für die komplette Reihe und 5 Sterne.
The end of this volume is an insane cliff hanger. I honestly wasn't expecting that in this manga. Looks like things are starting to get more interesting. Can't wait for the next one.
Oh Kurisaki, I just adore you. You're a ruffian with a good plot, that's like a cupcake with high-quality frosting. And you're pretty.
I'm really happy with the way the plot is coming together. Volume 3 had a lot of weight and 4 was a good wrap up and continuation of that. Also, first cliffhanger at the end of this one! I don't have the next volume yet, but I am super excited to keep reading. I love when I can judge a manga by how much it makes me act like a total loon while reading.
Teru knows the truth about Daisy, but she can’t let him know she knows! Are things going to change between her and Kurosaki? Will she be able to keep him from learning that she knows the truth, that he is Daisy?
Trying to be yourself without seeming like you’re trying is harder than it sounds. Teru becomes afraid to text Daisy because she thinks she will sound different, but not texting him is also bad. She has to find a happy medium and she does, by separating Daisy and Kurosaki in her head, pushing Daisy into the role of a substitute brother, thus making it easier to text him and keep everything straight in her mind.
Needing to talk to someone, Teru confides in Haruka, an acquaintance of hers, about the Daisy/Kurosaki situation, thus drawing them into a closer friendship. It helps to have someone to confide in, to get another person’s perspective on things, to brainstorm and problem solve with. Teru is afraid that if she lets Kurosaki know she knows that he is Daisy, that she will lose him, and she can’t bear that thought. It seems that Student Council President Rena has been eavesdropping on their conversation, so now she knows the janitor’s secret too!
A clogged drain pipe which has backed up becomes a problem when it prevents students from accessing the roof, because the area is forbidden until the janitor (Kurosaki) can deal with it. One student braves the guardian of the roadblock, in order to offer her assistance to Kurosaki—it’s Teru, of course. She brings an umbrella, ‘cause it’s pouring rain, and she tries to help him, using her smaller hands to dredge trash from the gutter, disgusting though that is. She is concerned for him, and figures the fastest way to get done is to help him. He spurns her help and sends her away, from his own concern for her, but ends up falling ill and going to the infirmary, under the care of the ditzy Ms. Mori, who is on him like white on rice! Teru is invited to a mixer, and she doesn’t want to go, but her friends tell her to ask Kurosaki, so he’ll reveal himself and his true feelings in his response. To her dismay, he tells her to go, have a good time. She has her misgivings and goes, unaware that he is actually sick, in bed.
While preparing for a test, Teru practices a technique for focusing which her late brother taught her, and is caught by Kurosaki, which opens a floodgate of memories about Soichiru. She also talks about her brother to Riko, who at one time dated him, telling her the story about the imaginary dog her brother created in order to cheer her up, one he named Gabe. Arf! Teru talks about her brother with Daisy, and asks about the origin of the flowery pseudonym, assuming he will affirm her hypothesis that it has to do with being her favorite flower. Strangely, he does not reply to her question immediately. And when he does, his words surprise her.
Interfering on Teru’s behalf with a belligerent student, earns Kurosaki three months’ suspension of pay and five days confinement to his house. In the meantime, weird things are happening at the school. Kyoshi says he saw a strange bearded guy in the closet! And people are receiving text messages purporting to be from Daisy, threatening them with losing data or worse if they don’t buy the anti-virus from him. Teru knows this can’t be true, but who can be behind this, and why? And, as usual, she is too quick to venture into situations that are potentially dangerous. Will she endanger Kurosaki too?
Not a lot of plot development until the end, I think. Teru takes care of Kurosaki after he falls ill. Teru and her brothers' group reminisce about him. There's a short humour plot intwined with the main story near the end involving a horror show, and the characters fear caused by it. We're also introduced to a new character, another friend of Terus' brother, who just happens to be the headmaster of Terus' school (and seriously, what is up with this? Did Riko and Kurosaki get their jobs because they knew the headmaster? For a while I was wondering if they'd hacked the school database and kind of hired themselves... them being hired at the school Teru goes to was awfully convenient. Maybe this is the authors' fix?).
The plot doesn't start developing more until at least half-way through, though. Students start receiving mysterious messages on their cell phones, from someone claiming to be the hacker daisy. The imposter is claiming to have infected their phone with a virus, and is demanding payment in return for getting rid of it. Rumours start going around about Terus' involvement with Daisy, and angry students start bullying her. The Daisy group have to find out whose behind the message, and clear the real Daisys' name. The new enemy isn't playing as nice as the old, though, and aren't afraid of hurting anyone they feel gets in their way.
This was good volume. Teru and Kurosakis' interactions are very cute. Some nice drawings of Kurosaki. When the plot picks up it draws you in well, and the plot-hanger leaves you wanting to keep reading in order to find out what happens next.
This book belonged to the best shoujo manga ever! Actually, there are lots of factors that bring out it's awesome-ness, (1)With its strong heroine, (2)conflicted hero, and (3)story -- OF COURSE that does both humor and emotion well, it is still most definitely a series worth reading.
i think the pace gets a bit slower than usual. Teru is still the main cause of trouble of the people around her. Well, she's not the one who causes the problem, actually, but it seems that the world only turns around her, and she's still the magnet of catastrophe.
After she finds out the truth about Daisy, that Daisy is Kurosaki, her life is not the same again. She trembles and gets nervous every time she gets close to him. Kurosaki, on the other hand, never has any hunch of him being found out as Daisy.
On this volume, there is another character that is put on Teru's side, the chairman of the school. I just wonder, why there are a lot of people gathering around Teru to protect her? Is there really something worth her life that her brother left after he died? One protagonist is added, but the antagonist, I think, remains the same-the people who want to give Teru troubles, both inside and outside school. Oh ya, one antagonist in Teru's school, Morie sensei. But until I finished reading volume 5, there's no clue of who Morie sensei is.
Well, I can say that this volume is a bit boring, or I'm the one who got bored of Teru's feeling towards Kurosaki. It's thrilling when Kurosaki does something silly to her, but on Teru's side, she becomes a boring character, i think.
Anyway, I still feel enthusiastic reading the following volume, but after finishing volume 5, and I got disappointed with the scene, where they are supposed to kiss, it is just, meh, aaaaaaarrrgghhhh... why don't they just kiss? It's shoujo manga, anyway, right?
I stop reading it for a while. I just miss reading a novel. ;)) Wait until I miss Kurosaki wkwkwkwk...
Die süße Teru ist vollkommen durch den Wind. Sie hat herausgefunden, dass ihr Retter und unbekannter Begleiter Daisy in Wirklichkeit ihr manchmal so verhasster Hausmeister Tasuku ist. Doch eigentlich ist sie ja auch ein bisschen in ihn verliebt. Doch wie soll sie sich ihm gegenüber ab jetzt verhalten? Soll sie ihn zur rede stellen oder ihn in dem Glauben lassen, dass sie sein Geheimnis noch immer nicht kennt? Daisy ist für sie zu einer wichtigen Bezugsperson geworden und nun scheint ihre Welt im Chaos zu versinken. Als sich auch noch ein bösartiger Hacker als Daisy ausgibt und alle an Terus Schule terrorisiert, muss sie sich entscheiden. Hält sie zu Daisy? Teru schwebt erneut in Gefahr und auch Tasuku wird immer mehr in Probleme verwickelt.
Dieser Band war wieder eine solide Mischung aus lustigen Szenen, spannenden Momenten und ganz viel Herz. Man fiebert immer wieder mit Teru und Tasuku mit und hofft, dass sie nun endlich zusammen finden. Die Zweifel der Protagonistin sind zum greifen nah und doch wünscht man sich, dass dieser gute Kontakt zu Daisy einfach nie und nimmer abbricht, hat Daisy doch für jede Situation immer die passenden Worte parat. Auch wenn die Kriminalität rund um Teru manchmal etwas übertrieben ist, kann man von dieser Mangareihe einfach nicht genug bekommen. Lesenswert ist sie allemal!
A bit slow paced but overall good! The characters were a lot more fleshed out in this volume, there was bit more exploration with Teru’s past and her brother which I enjoyed. All the characters including the minor ones really develop in this volume so there isn’t a ton of romance but it’s really refreshing to see Teru get some gal pals. The Kurosaki/ Teru watching a -horror-movie-together-getting-scared-end-up-holding-hands chapter made up for their drama/tension and other less enjoyable sideline stories. I immediately felt comfortable with the newer characters however not to rag on them, I was slowly getting accustomed to the newer plot line taking place. I need to acknowledge what a cliffhanger ending that was! Wow! This series is definitely is developing and I can sense a lot more taking place in the upcoming volumes. This made for a good #4. Teru is so cute and her friendships/insecurities/grief is so relatable. I can’t wait to see where she’ll go from here!
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I was curious on how old Kurosaki (it's so weird hearing/reading this last name for someone other than Ichigo from Bleach) and Riko are (I couldn't remember if it was mentioned in vol. 1 or 2). Surprisingly, he is only 24 (for some reason I thought he was older than that) and Riko is my age (30 years old, although I will be 31 in a few months), which really shocked me. It feels so strange when a fictional character is the same age as me. It doesn't happen very often anymore since even if they're adults, they're usually younger than me, like Kurosaki is. One thing that rarely changes in books is that the character or characters everyone makes fun of for being short are still taller than me. That's right, a 5'2" person is still taller than me😂
3.5* can definitely see where a lot of the plot points and character types come from in queens quality. this is a series i have mixed feelings on. I think it has an interesting plot, but I can definitely tell that motomi is a pantser. the school life shenanigans are not as interesting, and due to the age gap there isn't too much progression on the romance front either. teru is also a bit too naive for my tastes and for this kind of story (similar to fumi). there was no way this series was going to live up to the 15 years of hype i had for it, but still, i am enjoying this a lot. but maybe i need to space out my reading of it a bit.
If left to their own these two will never confess their love, although the obstacles are essentially non-existant (aside from her being 16, which no one seems bothered by).
I don't care very much about the romance. This is more like 3 stars but bumped up for 1) the great personal portrayal of the brother, and 2) some pretty mature advice on how to be a supportive friend. I liked how the snotty bully girl has inadvertantly come around to being a friend but doesn't admit it and the others just go with it.
Kind of starting to slow down. Teru knows Tasuku Kurosaki is DAISY, but this doesn’t stop her from loving him, er, either of them. The school director is introduced and wants to help keep Teru from being bullied and also may have something to do with her brother. Kurosaki gets ill and Teru helps him. They both continue to struggle with their feelings for one another.
The book ends with Teru being set up to have a desk fall on her, but Kurosaki saves her! However it would appear that a fake Daisy is behind a string of ransomware. Also Daisy was a nickname about a bomb.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Really like the love between Daisy (Kurosaki) and Teru
There are lots of times though where their relationship is a trudge to get through ?
Though they make it up with not making the same cliche blunders like "I don't think I deserve you" or the classic "I'm going to leave you because I'M deciding that that's what's best.
Thanks Kyousuke Motomi for giving me a couple that actually cares enough about one another to have a genuinely beautiful relationship that does not frustrate me!
Ústredné postavy príbehu okolo seba krúžia a chodia akoby po veľmi tenkom ľade. Všetky tie emócie, ktoré som si prežila spolu s postavami v tejto knižke, boli neskutočne intenzívne, až som z toho mala chuť kričať. Nedokážem si úplne presne predstaviť aké to musí byť pre oboch flustrujúce, no teda asi o kúsok viac pre chúďa Teru.
A ten dramatický koniec, no nedá sa mi inak než len ísť ďalej pokračovať v čítaní. :)