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<\/p>\nDengeki Daisy, also known as Hetakuso Cupid or The Hopeless Cupid, follows Teru as she lives her life and is cheered on by \u2018DAISY\u2019. But who is DAISY? Whoever it is, they might be closer to Teru than she realizes..<\/p>\n
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Author & Artist:\u00a0<\/strong>Kyousuke Motomi Published:<\/strong>\u00a02007 \u2013 2013 When Teru Kurebayashi\u2019s older brother dies she is left without relatives and support, except for the cell phone her brother gave her which has a contact called \u2018DAISY\u2019 on it. Her brother assured her DAISY will support her throughout her life and help her out when needed. Teru messages DAISY often, but often paints a prettier picture than what is really going on in her life, she leaves out being bullied by the rich kids, for instance.<\/p>\n After accidentally breaking a window in the back garden, Teru finds herself in debt and has to work this off helping out the school janitor Tasaku Kurosaki. He is a rude, but handsome, guy who makes her do his chores. After he appears the bullying abruptly stops.<\/p>\n Teru confides in DAISY about her situation, but who really is DAISY? Whoever it is, are they closer than she thinks?<\/p>\n Kyousuke Motomi clearly put a lot of work into Dengeki Daisy. The characters have a lot of background to them and there are a few unexpected twist, but also quite a few ones that the readers see coming, but the characters don\u2019t. This love story is filled with beautifully illustrated moments and has a positive ending to it.<\/p>\n Teru, her search for DAISY and her other relationships are the main focus of Dengeki Daisy, as expected. It is first and foremost a romance manga, as most of the mystery around who DAISY is quickly gets revealed to the reader. In this manga you get to know things way before the main character does, which can make it a bit frustrating when it takes her several chapters to realize the same thing. But it doesn\u2019t take away the surprise of how she finds out or how she\u2019ll react once she did uncover it.<\/p>\n The story itself focusses a lot around software engineers, like Teru\u2019s brother was, and hackers. Although it mentions these subjects quite a bit there isn\u2019t much explanation about how the hacks or programming are being done, probably because it\u2019s too complicated to explain simply and briefly. Still, as someone who\u2019s interested in the subject, I would\u2019ve preferred a little more than the general \u2018it\u2019s magic\u2019 approach.<\/p>\n When it comes to the genres this manga does fit into all of them, or maybe all but a few. As mentioned above its genres are Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life. Personally I felt there wasn\u2019t a lot of drama in this manga, or rather it gets resolves quickly. As do most of the mysteries in the story.<\/p>\n Initially Teru\u2019s love for DAISY seems a bit shallow and selfish, as DAISY helps her out a lot and she isn\u2019t able to do the same for him. But as time goes on you realize she loves him pretty much unconditionally, she isn\u2019t just in it for her own gain.<\/p>\n Teru comes across as a pretty selfless person, helping out someone who bullied her even if she has to put herself into a dangerous situation to get it done. She doesn\u2019t seem like someone who ever sees themselves as a victim, she isn\u2019t sad very often even when she does get hurt. Teru doesn\u2019t blame others for her misfortune and tries to smile and ignore people who bother her, or better yet end up befriending them.<\/p>\n Tasuku on the other hand comes across like an uncaring, rude and abusive guy who wants nothing more than to be left alone or, if someone bothers him, make people pay. However this is not his full personality. There are different sides to him, which you\u2019ll discover when reading and which makes him a well-rounded character. It\u2019s interesting to watch his actions as he struggles to keep his feelings a secret and tries to look out for Teru\u2019s wellbeing.<\/p>\n The two grow close over time, but their dynamic is definitely comedic most of the time. They both clearly care about one another.<\/p>\n Dengeki Daisy shows quite a bit of backstory of its characters, including the two main characters. The relationships between characters often gets explained, either by the character themselves or by flashback scenes.<\/p>\n While the style of this manga is definitely not ugly, I\u2019m not a huge fan. The shading in particular is very harsh and dark. I\u2019m more a fan of overly pretty or cute drawing styles myself, but this manga was enjoyable nonetheless. I also have to add that all the romantic moments were beautifully portrayed in this manga.<\/p>\n Kyousuke Motomi is also responsible for other well-known manga such Beast Master and Mitsuai Celeb, which have a very similar drawing style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dengeki Daisy, also known as Hetakuso Cupid or The Hopeless Cupid, follows Teru as she lives her life and is cheered on by \u2018DAISY\u2019. But who is DAISY? 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\nGenres:<\/strong>\u00a0Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life
\nSerialisation:<\/strong>\u00a0Betsucomi<\/p>\n
\nNumber of Volumes:<\/strong>\u00a016
\nNumber of Chapters:<\/strong> 75<\/p>\nRating:<\/strong> 70\/10<\/h4>\n
\n \n <\/a>\n \n <\/a>\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe story<\/strong><\/h4>\n
The characters<\/h4>\n
The style<\/h4>\n
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![\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe story<\/strong><\/h4>\nTeru, her search for DAISY and her other relationships are the main focus of Dengeki Daisy, as expected. It is first and foremost a romance manga, as most of the mystery around who DAISY is quickly gets revealed to the reader. In this manga you get to know things way before the main character does, which can make it a bit frustrating when it takes her several chapters to realize the same thing. But it doesn\u2019t take away the surprise of how she finds out or how she\u2019ll react once she did uncover it.<\/p>\nThe story itself focusses a lot around software engineers, like Teru\u2019s brother was, and hackers. Although it mentions these subjects quite a bit there isn\u2019t much explanation about how the hacks or programming are being done, probably because it\u2019s too complicated to explain simply and briefly. Still, as someone who\u2019s interested in the subject, I would\u2019ve preferred a little more than the general \u2018it\u2019s magic\u2019 approach.<\/p>\nWhen it comes to the genres this manga does fit into all of them, or maybe all but a few. As mentioned above its genres are Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life. Personally I felt there wasn\u2019t a lot of drama in this manga, or rather it gets resolves quickly. As do most of the mysteries in the story.<\/p>\nThe characters<\/h4>\nInitially Teru\u2019s love for DAISY seems a bit shallow and selfish, as DAISY helps her out a lot and she isn\u2019t able to do the same for him. But as time goes on you realize she loves him pretty much unconditionally, she isn\u2019t just in it for her own gain.<\/p>\nTeru comes across as a pretty selfless person, helping out someone who bullied her even if she has to put herself into a dangerous situation to get it done. She doesn\u2019t seem like someone who ever sees themselves as a victim, she isn\u2019t sad very often even when she does get hurt. Teru doesn\u2019t blame others for her misfortune and tries to smile and ignore people who bother her, or better yet end up befriending them.<\/p>\nTasuku on the other hand comes across like an uncaring, rude and abusive guy who wants nothing more than to be left alone or, if someone bothers him, make people pay. However this is not his full personality. There are different sides to him, which you\u2019ll discover when reading and which makes him a well-rounded character. It\u2019s interesting to watch his actions as he struggles to keep his feelings a secret and tries to look out for Teru\u2019s wellbeing.<\/p>\nThe two grow close over time, but their dynamic is definitely comedic most of the time. They both clearly care about one another.<\/p>\nDengeki Daisy shows quite a bit of backstory of its characters, including the two main characters. The relationships between characters often gets explained, either by the character themselves or by flashback scenes.<\/p>\nThe style<\/h4>\nWhile the style of this manga is definitely not ugly, I\u2019m not a huge fan. The shading in particular is very harsh and dark. I\u2019m more a fan of overly pretty or cute drawing styles myself, but this manga was enjoyable nonetheless. I also have to add that all the romantic moments were beautifully portrayed in this manga.<\/p>\nKyousuke Motomi is also responsible for other well-known manga such Beast Master and Mitsuai Celeb, which have a very similar drawing style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dengeki Daisy, also known as Hetakuso Cupid or The Hopeless Cupid, follows Teru as she lives her life and is cheered on by \u2018DAISY\u2019. But who is DAISY? Whoever it is, they might be closer to Teru than she realizes..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":23976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3078,2976],"tags":[4006,3010,2978,3911,3438,3006,3519],"class_list":["post-23981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-all-reviews","tag-betsucomi","tag-drama-en","tag-manga-en","tag-manga-review-en","tag-romantiek-en","tag-shoujo-en","tag-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24080,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions\/24080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Dengeki-Daisy_Volume-12.png\"){kind=link}