Akuma to Love Song

Alternative: English: A Devil and Her Love Song
Synonyms: The Devil and Lovesongs
Japanese: 悪魔とラブソング
Autore: Toumori, Miyoshi
genere: Manga
Volumi: 13
Capitoli: 91
Stato: Finished
Pubblicare: 2021-12-06 to 2011-04-05
Serializzazione: Margaret

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Alternative: English: A Devil and Her Love Song
Synonyms: The Devil and Lovesongs
Japanese: 悪魔とラブソング
Autore: Toumori, Miyoshi
genere: Manga
Volumi: 13
Capitoli: 91
Stato: Finished
Pubblicare: 2021-12-06 to 2011-04-05
Serializzazione: Margaret
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Sommario
Maria Kawai transfers from St. Katria Girls' School to Touzuka Public High School, and her arrival sparks interest for two reasons: St. Katria has an excellent academic reputation compared to Touzuka, and Maria is incredibly cute! When her classmates speculate upon her transfer to their less-than-impressive school, she flatly informs them that she was expelled for violence against her former teacher. This is characteristic of Maria—despite her angelic appearance, she will tell the unadorned truth regardless of social niceties, and as such, people often compare her to a devil.

On her first day, Maria is introduced to Yuusuke Kanda and Shin Meguro, two unlikely friends. Yuusuke pretends to be cheerful and fun-loving, but in reality, he is uninterested in many things and people. In contrast, Shin acts cold and distant, but can secretly be quite caring.

Yuusuke proposes to Maria that she should put a "lovely spin" on the things she says to make her words sound less harsh, even if her message remains the same. Unfortunately, Maria cannot master this "lovely spin" when speaking, but people seem to be touched by her voice when she sings. Can singing help Maria convey that she is lonely, that she wants to be liked by others—and most of all—that she wants to be able to like herself?

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Akuma to Love Song review
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jzmcdaisy21125
Apr 03, 2021
Only read Akuma to Love Song if you like over-the-top melodrama.

On the positive side, it starts off pretty strong by daring to be different. Rather than the typical nice but insecure protagonist, Maria Kawai is so blunt and abrasive she's described as having an "acid tongue." Rather than the usual romance, the first half mostly focuses on Maria's interactions with her class. Of course she ends up making a lot of people mad at her, but eventually she manages to make them understand her in her own way. It gets pretty melodramatic at times, especially with its depiction of their teacher who's beyond terrible to his his students, but it didn't personally bother me.

What killed it for me was the second half, when it changes focus to Maria's various romantic relationships. The melodrama got to be too much for me when there was a plot twist to force Maria and her love interest apart that doesn't actually happen in real life. Everyone treats it so seriously, never really questioning this, but I just found it infuriating because I no longer found the story at all realistic or even plausible. It feels to me very similar to Fushigi Yuugi, where there was some silly melodramatic plot twist to force Miaka and Tamahome apart, except being a fantasy, Fushigi Yuugi had a fantasy world explanation for the silly melodrama. Akuma to Love Song, however, is supposed to take place in the real world. It's also, by the way, a really obvious retcon because actually the thing they're all worried about actually happened before, but absolutely nothing happened as a result.

It also makes it objectively less good because Akuma to Love Song was mostly good in the first place for feeling really different from other shoujo for having a really different type of protagonist. But at this midway point, it mostly becomes the usual love polygon antics, and Maria's character shows less and less, as she's being forced into the role of the shoujo protagonist who's the center of all these love polygons. Such a story wouldn't really work if Maria is allowed to act a hundred percent as she had been, since she's normally so abrasive that it would be really hard for anyone to be in a relationship with her, even if they do understand her. The author might have intended to have a character arc where Maria changes, but if so, it didn't really come off that way to me, as much as just her character was just getting out of character.

Akuma to Love Song review
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uranx6
Apr 03, 2021
Story//
Akuma to Love Song is a nice change of pace from the typical shoujo that takes traumatic events and the trauma that follows it and realistically portrays it. Maria's reactions are very realistic and while it was definitely simplified at moments I think it did a better job than most shoujo in delving into this. I will saw I did not like how ( mild spoilers) easy it was for John Cross to be forgiven.

Art//
I'm usually more of a fan of realistic artwork- such as Naoki Urasawa's (Monster) but I loved the character design in this manga. I never find the big eyes art style very pretty but nonetheless Maria was GORGEOUS to me. I also loved the 'sloppy' look they gave to Meguro.

Character//
Maria is a breath of fresh air in the world of shoujo where every female protagonist seems to be idiotic and insecure. She's a great protagonist who always worked through her issues and pushed herself to be great, and while she did get help from the male characters she never solely relied on them. I enjoyed the rest of the main cast/supporting characters as well because I loved how they learned to understand each other and how much their relationship changed from the beginning of the series. The only character I truly wasn't a fan of till the end was Anna and probably John Cross as well as I can never forgive him for his actions.

Overall/Enjoyment:
I thought this was a good series overall and it was very engaging. I binge-read it within 24 hours, and while I wish we got to see more of their future in the end it was a satisfying end. It was interesting to me that the author decided to switch to Yuusuke's perspective in the final chapter- it was a unique and bittersweet decision.
Akuma to Love Song review
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Skycrafter1
Apr 03, 2021
The "Devil and her Love Song" is a beautiful story. Although I haven't finished it I am really enjoying the story so far.
The art is beautiful and clean- in my opinion. Especially the main charter Maria.
The charters seem very diverse and interesting. Everyone is very interesting and has there own past.
Although the only thing I can not understand is the intense hatred the teacher has for Maria-I mean come on! really? That teacher is so childish.

The story overall is very interesting and I like how it is a very charter driven story with interesting twist. Everything is slowly reveled to you as you keep reading. The story starts when the main charter Maria comes transfers to the new school. She meets new people but with her sharp tongue easily makes some enemies. The story unfolds from their as Maria is not the type to just sit back and be quiet. (I don't want to ruin the story so I will stop there haha)
I wouldn't recommend this for anyone into action genre- as the story can be kind of slow to people. Although personally loved the story myself and would recommend it in general.

----UPDATE---
*SPOLILERS AHEAD*
I finished the manga and I can say while going threw the manga I had mixed feelings. The part were I felt that manga went downhill was the intro of *Spoilers* Maria's father-who had raped her mother when she was ONLY 14 YEARS OLD! I mean, it was an interesting part but how they introduced him a sympathetic character-COME ON! The only victim is Maria and her mother! The main romance also seemed very lacking-and Maria's charter stared to change. Instead of being the wild, open-minded, strong character she WAS. Then when she and Shin officially becomes an item her personality does a complete 180.
She is always thinking of Shin...her thought can be compressed into these small statement all having to do with Shin. "Oh I hope Shin likes my outfit" "I love Shin!" "I hope Shin and I can sing together again.."
What happened to the independent character from the beginning? Even in the manga there is a scene where a guy from a record company tells her that her singing seems like "She is always singing to one person"...and you that person is *DING DING DING* Shin! Romance is not suppose to cripple a person so much they lose all the personality and fire they had before-she should have ended up with one of the other two guys-I think. Especially Yusuke).

I know for the update I might seem like I am being spiteful but I would have to say it's because I had such high hopes for it (It was beginning one of my favorites-not anymore because of the second half). I did not buy the main romance (ruining a great charter in my opinion) and was a complete let down.
I was still able to enjoy the manga (Just no longer one of my favorites). And what I stated before about it not having a lot of action above remains the same.
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