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The setup for this story is great. As a research project an alien race sets a creature down on earth to study the life forms there. While the alien studying us earthlings she falls in love with a local and has a kid named Naru Nanase. So the kid grows up with a sister, all human this time, and is just starting out her earth school career. Sounds good right? Great set up for lots of comedy and sci-fi goodness. Right. Crack the spine on this bad boy. Lets see what’s under the hood... Okay the animation is better than normal that’s good. Cute characters, but the girls hair styles all look the same. Great use of detail in the background. Not too much to be distracting, but not so little that I thought he just didn’t care. Tomohiro Marukawa knows his art, and composition for manga pages. And it’s a generic school life manga. Bummer. This manga has so much potential in possible storylines or twists and turns it could take, but it doesn’t. It sticks to the tried and true formula of ever other manga where the main characters are in school. Trips to the beach, teaching others to swim, trying to get boys to like you, its all here. The characters are well defined, and perform in character throughout the whole book. While the consistency is a good thing, it’s almost too uniform. There are not really any high points or lows in the manga. It’s almost like reading through something that is supposed to make you remember the good times you had in high school. I was thinking about the time that we went to the beach, the time I made a costume, the time I was looking for a book and got turned into a cat. Okay not so much the last part, but the other stuff I remember. What I would have liked to see, is if they played up the alien part of our main character more. Most of the time you forget that part while reading the manga. There is an offhand reference to her spacecraft, or she teleports some place, but nothing really substantial. I wanted to see her talking to the people who sent her there, or having more occasions where she didn’t know the social dynamic of school. I know that this is based off an anime so I can only think that the manga was done as more of a fan service than a stand alone product. All in all it’s okay if you want to read another middle school/ high school manga. I guess I was just expecting more strange happenings, more aliens, and more action. It just meanders and wanders along, with not much happening. Would it be different if I had seen the anime? It might be. -nick-
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