Chocola et Vanilla ¨¦taient jusqu'¨¤ pr¨¦sent les meilleures amies du monde. Mais depuis qu'elle a c¨¦d¨¦ ¨¤ la magie noire et rejoint les Ogres, Vanilla est devenue l'ennemie de toute les sorci¨¨res, y compris Chocola ! Celle-ci, de son c?t¨¦, a bien du mal ¨¤ se sortir Pierre de la t¨ºte. Parviendra-t-elle ¨¤ l'oublier ? Sauvera-t-elle son amie de l'influence n¨¦faste du Prince Noir ? E surtout pourra-t-elle gagner la comp¨¦tition dans ces conditions ?
Moyoko Anno (°²Ò° ¥â¥è¥³) is a Japanese manga artist and a fashion writer, with numerous books published in both categories. Her manga and books have attained considerable popularity among young women in Japan. Though she primarily writes manga of the josei demographic, her most popular series, Sugar Sugar Rune, (serialized in Nakayoshi) is targeted at primary school-aged girls. In a recent Oricon poll, she was voted the number eight most popular manga artist among females and thirteen in the general category. Her manga Happy Mania was made into a television series in 1998, followed by Hataraki Man in October 2007. Sakuran was made into a movie in 2006. In the movie Japan Sinks, she has a cameo role alongside her husband; their characters were also married. The movie was directed by Shinji Higuchi, who, like her husband Hideaki Anno, is a co-founder of Gainax.
Anno won the 29th Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2005 for Sugar Sugar Rune.
This volume was better than the 3rd. The stories didn't really add new informations, but were pleasant to follow. Like previously, I've a huge problem with the focus on stealing hearts and making people fall in love with kids, but this time there was also a part about the girls being fat and on a diet. The girls are around 10 years old (and are of course skinny, it's a manga, not a diverse book)! It's a little worrying to imagine kids reading this series, some of the undertones are quite disturbing.
- Chocola was the I connected the dots meme and the conspiracy board meme and I live for this - Joe, Houx, Akira and the two guys whose name I forgot are the best side characters - The plot is getting stronger and more interesting
This is very much a multi-layered plot by now, functioning more and more based on the magical world's conflict of witches/wizards against ogres. As Chocolat becomes an official adult witch, she's exposed to more of the problems surrounding the ogres and even the lore behind why they collect noir.
The most heartbreaking part of this volume and story still remains with how Vanilla has ingrained herself into the ogres' world and now collects noir instead of hearts like Chocolat. Furthermore, Chocolat seems to be the only one who hasn't given up on her or is criticizing her, and that's likewise rather sad. Still though, Chocolat remains strong for both of them, which lends depth to her character.
Another climactic ending, leading up to one of my favourite volumes in the series, besides the ending of course. Looking forward to it!
Fourth volume out of eight: 2.5 stars This is getting worst and I don't know who to blame. The first part was boring and useless; the second part was pure childish and annoying. Overall, I cringed a lot.
Le monde de Chocola (et ainsi le n?tre, forc¨¦ment) commence ¨¤ basculer.. C'est un tome avec plein de revirements, sans oublier l'examen de printemps des sorci¨¨res, qui m'a fait penser aux examens dans Doremi Magique. Ou encore le Nouvel An et la St Valentin, qui sont des f¨ºtes toujours sympas ¨¤ retrouver dans un manga.
Par contre, comment Chocola peut-elle dire aimer quelqu'un, alors qu'il y a 0 interaction dans ces deux tomes ? Pas bien grave mais ?a devient presque p¨¦nible.
Un sujet int¨¦ressant est abord¨¦ : chaque c?ur poss¨¨de un minimum de noirceur, que la magie noire va d¨¦cupler pour la rendre omnipr¨¦sente et rendre un c?ur noir. Pour l'instant je ne sais pas si les personnages vont essayer de combattre leur noirceur, ou au contraire l'accepter, mais j'ai espoir !! Jusqu'¨¤ pr¨¦sent, je trouve cette saga assez mature.
Ce s¨¦rie est mieux que pr¨¦vu. J'esp¨¦rais une histoire bizarre et un peu stupide. Mais j'aime la relation amicale entre Vanilla e Chocola et les personnages secondaires son tr¨¨s sympas. OK, ils sont un peu b¨ºtes mais l'ensemble est int¨¦ressant.
Ok, ceci est la premi¨¨re s¨¦rie que je lis en fran?ais. Je comprend presque tous mais parfois je doute. Pour cette raison, j'ai achet¨¦ Chocola & Vanilla en italien. Juste pour ¨ºtre s?r!
incroyable et merveilleux, c'est de mieux en mieux avec des petites r¨¦flexions plus profondes sur l'amour, la jalousie, le d¨¦sespoir, c'est toujours plus fin que ce que l'on croit au d¨¦but et les relations sont trop originales et int¨¦ressantes!
La premi¨¨re partie n¡¯apporte pas vraiment grand chose ¨¤ l¡¯histoire, mais j¡¯ai quand m¨ºme suivi avec plaisir. La fin est intrigante. Un tome un peu moins bon que les pr¨¦c¨¦dents.
Suis tomb¨¦e dessus a la m¨¦diath¨¨que fallait que je les relise, tjr une de mes s¨¦ries de manga fav on va pas se mentir! Surtt a partir du tome 4.. on est dans le deep
I love to read books for people of all ages. But there is something about this series that I just don't like very much. Maybe it's because the story revolves around kids that are in fourth grade and they are all falling in love with each other.
Look, I know kids are growing up a little faster these days then they did when I went to elementary school, but kids generally are not dating in fourth grade. I should know, I was an elementary school teacher for a while and still work in the school system. Boys are really only interested in video games at that age, not yucky girls.
The other issue I have is with the artwork. I guess I don't like it very much. So many of the panels are cluttered, which causes me not to really look at them very intently.
My daughter tried to read this series when she was 12-years old and didn't like it at all. She also didn't like the way the artist drew the eyes, which is way too big, in both of our opinions.
Sugar Sugar Rune: Volume 4 continues the story about two girls vying to be the next Queen of the Magical World. It is funny how Vanilla has become the evil one now and Chocolat is the nice one. The artwork, like mentioned above, is cluttered and funky. It is not even close to what I like looking at. The story is hokey and a little scattered, but can easily be followed.
Overall, Sugar Sugar Rune: Volume 4 is not bad, but I sure wish it was a lot better. Maybe things will be different in Sugar Sugar Rune: Volume 5. I can only hope so, but I doubt it.
This is a fun little series. Except that it always makes me hungry when I read it. I mean the lead characters are named Chocolat and Vanilla and the often do spells involving candy and food. This is really problematic since I read manga right before bed to wind down. But I don't the average kid reader would have the same problem.
I'm really curious to see how this series ends. I can't even predict it because when I think one thing, something happens to change my mind. 4 volumes to go and to find out what will happen for our two little witches!
I didn't like v.4 quite as much as the other volumes in this series because the "plot thickens" in a fairly predictable and cliche way. Vanilla "turns evil" and the "ogres have their day". *shrugs* Otherwise the volume was quite wonderful.
Un tome un peu de transition, mais qui permet de voir davantage les ogres en action. L'histoire est toujours aussi prenante et les personnages attachants. Ce manga (et l'anime) m'avait charm¨¦ lorsque j'¨¦tais petite, mais m¨ºme en ¨¦tant plus vieille j'aime toujours autant.