Pink Innocent

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Sorry for missing the last update.
I set my alarm to wake up a half an hour later due to a headache
And I ended up sleeping from 10 PM to 6 AM..
And then shit ensued..
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Anyways
Today I bring you
Pink Innocent~


Pink Innocent


Story & Art: Kotori Momoyuki
Publisher: Kodansha/Del Rey
Rating: Teen (13+)
Synopsis: (mangaupdates.com) Cocona is a rich girl who doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of reality. She's in love with someone--but he happens to have a bigger interest in his laptop than in girls.


Art Review: 3/5


The style is very cute, however I do have one issue... The eyes are so bloody gigantic.. I know that it is a shoujo and huge eyes are common, and it's supposed to enhance the loli factor in this manga, but even the guys have huge eyes. It's like a whole manga dedicated to the puppy eyes gag or something.


Story Review: The title says innocence and it delivers. Right up to your door. In short shorts. With it's huge buggy eyes, and innocence that could attract pedophiles within a 10 mile radius. Evidently its about this rich girl who doesn't really have much of a clue. As soon as someone makes a commoner reference I remembered Ouran High School Host Club (*sniff* Such a wonderful anime... Tamakiii *sniff*) But holy crap, Cocona (what sort of name is Cocona, by the way? Is it a crack that she's about as bright as a coconut? Perhaps I am being too cruel.. The coconut's probably smarter.) You know you're spoiled when not only do you have a huge cleaning committee who sucks up to you, you drive up to school in a limo, but you also pull out a red carpet when you exit from the limo. And it doesn't help especially when people say,"Oh, they're doing that again?" Cocona's evidently not the brightest colour in the box when the guy who agrees to go out with her responds to it with "Fine by me" and is excessively obsessed with his laptop. Eari (what's with the names in this manga?) may be right. Renji, who is obsessed with his laptop and just so happens to have the privilege to be snooty since he's a bishie, may not be the right man for you. But of course, being a shoujo, they're going to end up together in the end (this isn't a spoiler, I assure you this is how it works out for 90% of all shoujo.) Cocona is cute and naive... almost to the point where I'd like to sock her in that plate sized eye of hers.. A little into the manga, she confesses to Renji again and cannon-balled out of a helicopter. Laws of physics say she breaks her legs. Laws of manga say that she lands like a ninja. Cocona is left in Renji's room, she touches the laptop and for whatever reason it explodes. Is this a PC otaku thing? Note to self: Don't ever touch a computer nerd's laptop. I am now fully convinced that the DVD compartment can fire shiruken and chlorine gas can come out of the AC adapter socket if I touched it. Once again, another shoujo manga uses the bloody Romeo and Juliet reference. Why do people never learn? And let's stop being mean to the fat kid who wants to play as Romeo. Let him play Romeo, I'm sure that's what he would have looked like in reality. Romeo is only said to be attractive, what if he was butt-ugly and Juliet couldn't reject him because there wasn't much selection or there was too much embarrassment of already having slept with him. I know that this manga is about a rich girl, but why does the gag have to be the dropping of a golden bar on her head? Is this only because she could be wiping her arse with $50 bills? What if this manga was about a poor girl? If every time the heroine gets to be the butt of a gag, does a garbage bag get dropped onto her head? Back to Romeo and Juliet (ugh), whoa, since when was the apothecary a sexy girl in leather? I'm pretty sure that guy was a dying old man, and kind of looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame. Why is it that when she does call for her butler to do something, I'm half expecting him to appear with jet packs? I know why. Because butlers are the shit. I mean, look at Alfred from the Batman series. Epic guy. Why do all of the makeovers and new outfits of this manga have to do with bondage or leather? This scares me, just a little, since this manga does come off as innocent. I swear, anyone who is an actual computer nerd shouldn't read this, every chapter a laptop explodes or something. But back to the poor fat kid who wanted to play Romeo, I take it back, now that I've read further and you locked Renji in a closet, you have betrayed me. You're just a evil, fat, creepy tamagotchi look-a-like (remember those things? Ah, the '90s.) By now, I'm guessing all the slutty things Eari wears is like the fan service of the manga? Shouldn't there be enough to go around with Cocona being so cute that you could get a cavity just by looking at her? What does annoy me about this manga and many shoujos is that the suspense is only created by her stupid assumptions. Although, Cocona does have a bit of right thinking that way, Renji kind of comes off as an ass at times. As you read on they eventually let Cocona meet his parents. He leaves her up in his room. WAIT RENJI DON'T LEAVE HER ALONE WITH A COMPUTER IN YOUR ROOM! It's not even as bad as your girlfriend finding your secret porn collection when you're not looking, this girl blows up laptops with a single touch. Fool you once, shame on her. Fool you twice, shame on you. And when he Renji came back he started acting all eccentric and cute. What, were there drugs in that tea? But of course this makes complete sense when you find out it was his brother disguising as him. Also, that's a complete mockery of a nun outfit you're doing there, Cocona. So slutty (whoa autocorrect, don't turn that to smutty, pedobear alert.) Does Cocona take steroids? She karate chopped a computer.. The lipstick ad Eari does looks a lot more like rape than attraction to me. And of course, what with the rich girl theme.. Kidnapping. Only classily done with a limo. What's with these pretentious rich people? They keep ripping on the poor fat kid. I said it once and I'll say it again. This girl is so dumb and naive. Just going abroad thinking it'll help her and Renji. He's stubborn, that'd never work. In the chapter where she does announce this, the ship breaks in half. So the Sakuranomiyas have a Voltron style ship? Or perhaps it could turn into a transformer. At one point after it breaks the crew tells people over a PA that the ship is not breaking. Haha, ship sinking with a lot of rich people on it. That sounds very familiar doesn't it? ....what, too soon? Cocona does hit an iceberg... Hey iceberg, you missed, you only hit ONE rich person. Enough with the Titanic jokes. Now, I know kissing underwater seems romantic but don't do it if you're sinking into the Japanese sea.. Back to the school, they seem more lovey dovey and what not and they nearly got caught by their English teacher. That teacher is a pedo and a cougar. And she walks off muttering that she wants a boyfriend soon. Lady, you have the complexion of a leather hand bag, therefore, the only person who wants to hold you is just another dumb old lady. Cocona and Renji go camping and his laptop explodes. Then again, you're in the outdoors, you kinda deserved it. But in the next couple of pages I failed to understand what happened. They were walking and then all of a sudden holyshittheytelloffofacliff. Throughout this manga, what really bothers me is that he doesn't even say her first name more than twice throughout the whole series. This manga was predictable and I wanted to punch the heroine throughout the whole thing. The ending was cliche and dumb. I'm sorry to be immature but that's what I thought of it.


6.5/10