I read the first chapter in Shojo Beat. and i thought that it was the shit. This is the series that made me hunt down everything that Chika Shiomi has published in America. However….upon getting the actual first volume home with me…i was not as impressed.
Yurara is a highschool girl, who has always had the ability to see the spirits of the deceased who have, for some reason, not passed on into the other world.
On her first day of highschool, she is attacked by a spirit who’d been haunting a desk by the window where a boy commited suicide after being wrongfully accused.
Yurara also meets two boys. A blonde who’s quiet and serious and a brunette who’s flirty and outgoing. Neither one of them are that interesting and the for a “romantic thriller” it’s lite on thriller and lacking any believable romance.
Yurara, is shy and pretty much boring, but when faced with this evil spirit, she transforms into a darkhaired bombshell who “ain’t scared of no ghost!”
To solve the case, she has to transform. Mei and Yako, also have spiritual powers and help her out. But Mei, is very ovbiously attaracted to Yurara’s other self. Each chapter, a ghost presents itself and the gang solves the mystery.
It’s kind of boring. But, it’s not bad. I just wish it would go somewhere or stop going in such predictable circles.
