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meganbmooreAbout halfway through (when the horrendously annoying love triangle goes away) this stops being the evil, abusive twin of W Juliet and actually becomes a fairly decent shoujo. Except, really, it’s still just a second-rate W Juliet, and I’m sure I would have been way happier just rereading that.
A few things in Tenshi Ja Nai’s favor: Despite his early start, Izumi actually ended up a decent shoujo hero, though I never forgave him for some things he did to Hikaru early on. One thing I particularly liked is that, despite Izumi’s initially-unrequited crush showing up pretty early on, they remain mostly friends until near the end, and unlike a lot of shoujo, Izumi’s storyline doesn’t take over the last leg of the series, and for once it’s the heroine’s self-finding dominating the end, instead of her getting pushed to the sidelines in favor of the guy’s issues, though there was still a trope I hate involved in that.
So, a better series than it initially appeared to be (I wish I didn’t have a bizarre addiction to showbiz shoujo) despite some severely annoying aspects, but really, just a lesser W Juliet.
A few things in Tenshi Ja Nai’s favor: Despite his early start, Izumi actually ended up a decent shoujo hero, though I never forgave him for some things he did to Hikaru early on. One thing I particularly liked is that, despite Izumi’s initially-unrequited crush showing up pretty early on, they remain mostly friends until near the end, and unlike a lot of shoujo, Izumi’s storyline doesn’t take over the last leg of the series, and for once it’s the heroine’s self-finding dominating the end, instead of her getting pushed to the sidelines in favor of the guy’s issues, though there was still a trope I hate involved in that.
So, a better series than it initially appeared to be (I wish I didn’t have a bizarre addiction to showbiz shoujo) despite some severely annoying aspects, but really, just a lesser W Juliet.