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>>163998 Yes, shitty. It completely rips off titles like DNA^2, Tenchi... heck, it takes just about every shounen romance cliche in the book and compiles them into several black and white twenty page chapters. Average high school boy is in love with cute girl but is too shy to confess. Suddenly a hot alien chick appears before the guy(and in his bathtub no less...) and quickly falls in love with him. Alien chick turns out to be a princess(who didn't see that coming...) who ran away from her home world because she didn't want to marry any of those preselected husbands. A few misunderstandings lead everyone to believe that the guy and the alien chick are getting married.... Any somewhat experienced anime/manga fan will be able to tell you that these are some pretty obviously cliched plot elements. I could see exactly where it was going to go from the start.
Jeesus, even the character personalities are cliched. The protagonist is a relatively shy boy who always gets tense at the sight of a naked girl, the alien chick is your normal happy-go-lucky girl naive to many things about the human world, then there's the girl that the main character likes but doesn't know she likes him as well.... And that seems to be just about everyone who matters within the first three chapters(which is all I've read so far). And they weren't even very well fleshed out at that.
There are even some inconsistencies in it. I mean, how is an alien who is strong enough to pick up A FUCKING TRACTOR TRAILER able to have a girl's arm knocked out of his grasp by a soccer ball kicked by some normal human kid?
At least the character designs are cute making for some nice fanservice... but that's just about all this manga is good for.
As for Mai-HiME, I'll defend it another day. I'll just say here that it has high production values, well-done characterization and a plot that twists and turns so much in the latter episodes that I pretty much figuratively shat myself.
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