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Okujouhime
| Alt Names: |  屋上姫 屋上姬 Okujou Hime Okujou-Hime Rooftop Princess |
| Author: | Tobi |
| Artist: | Tobi |
| Genres: |  Drama Psychological Romance School Life Shounen Slice of Life |
| Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
| Status: | Complete |
| Description: | On his first day of high school, Mayuzumi has a fateful encounter with the President of the Student Council - nicknamed "The Rooftop Princess," a girl who manages to spark his interest the second he sees her. This meeting leads to a series of events which turn Mayu's life completely upside down. |
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The characters seem to have "complex" personalities, but no realistic aspect of a relationship has been described after 9 chapters. It's easy to mistake it for some borderline seinen, but a shoujo manga would never describe the male protagonist as someone plain and unremarkable. It's either "cool and antisocial" or "cute/nice and popular".
I find it hard to think of schoolkid romances as being like seinen. Is not seinen the guy equivalent of josei, in theory? Sure, it tends not to be as obviously adult-pitched, but still, I don't expect seinen to centre around having lunch on the school rooftop etc.
But compared to most shounen, this manga strikes me as more involved in the romantic feelings and, frankly, a lot less in the comic/sexy mishaps with panty shots, nosebleeds, accidental gropings, misunderstandings that make the guy seem like a total hentai and so on. The developing triangle (square if you count older brother) is not operating like a shounen harem, but more like the kind of romantic tension you see all the time in shoujo romance. People are much less in denial about their feelings than is typical in shounen. Shounen, even shounen centring around romance, tend to keep the feelings talk to a minimum.
To me the way the romance is being done is much more typical in tone for a shoujo. A good shoujo. I'm not saying you're one of them, but there are some people with a chip on their shoulder about shoujo, who think any reference to it means something is fluffy and pointless; those people are going to miss my point because they don't know what shoujo is actually like. I think it's actually a good thing to be bringing some positive elements from shoujo into stuff marketed for boys rather than always assuming boys won't read anything that doesn't treat them like emotional cripples.
It's still true she either dated him to figure out whether she could love someone else other than her brother or because she wanted to do something "normal" for her age, which means she's using his pure feelings for her selfish purposes.
I dont think like that. I think Kasugami senpai try to be "normal", in short try to overcome her love for her brother.
Okujyouhime isn't wincest manga and the author seems not swing that way either, Kasugami knows very well about her secret forbidden love, that's why she date Mayu in hope to became normal and found new love.
This may sound offensive, but this often happen with someone with unusual sexual desire (gay or lesbian). They knew its not normal and they tried to press that desire with marrying someone and built a normal family. Sometimes it works and sometimes its not.
We at Extras have our hands full at the moment, but fret not, more is coming soon!
To our readers: Chapter 4 isn't far away
Usually manga make the setting clear from chapter 1 and focus on developments, while here we don't really even knows what's up with the female protagonist after three chapters.
It's a pretty engrossing effect, but i really wonder if the author will be able to keep that up for the whole series.
Anyway, this series gives different vibe than usual romance shounen I've read. I like and really curious with the end, something that I can't predict from this series. Love it.