Moe Kare!! — What I Wish KNIY Did

I really need to read more shojo manga. Or maybe just manga in gen­eral. I recently read Moe Kare and thought it was bey­ond cute. While I read it, I thought of its sim­il­ar­it­ies with Koko ni iru yo. It made me a little mad that Koko ni iru yo didn’t do what Moe Kare did. How­ever, think­ing of that made me love Moe Kare even more.

To oth­ers, they might not find it amaz­ing or as good I’m say­ing it is, but this is what I think. This is my giddy fangirl mind.

Moe Kare is about a young girl named Hikaru who searches to find true love. One day, she was saved from dis­gust­ing guys by a hot guy. When she asks what she can do to repay him, he french kisses her. Ser­i­ous. He goes on to com­ment about how he was going to try to seduce her, but she didn’t seem sexy enough. Later on, she goes on a group date with her friends and meets Takara, who looks exactly like the french kiss­ing hot guy. It’s later revealed the french kiss­ing hot guy is his long lost half-brother who looks just like him, Arata. A love tri­angle follows.

A bit typ­ical? Pos­sibly. But I still liked it. The char­ac­ters had reminded me a bit of KNIY’s char­ac­ters. Hikaru = Hik­age, Takara = Hinata, Arata = Teru. Of course Hikaru and Takara do get together like Hik­age and Hinata. Arata and Teru end up being the guy sur­roun­ded by girls but only wants the main girl. There’s also a jeal­ous girl who wants the sweet, nice main guy.

On the other hand, Moe Kare gave me what I liked. Drama that makes me want to know what hap­pens next. Koko ni iru yo felt too light. I don’t know. Also, I felt the char­ac­ters were more likable. My gosh how Hik­age annoyed me some­times. Hikaru, though, developed rather nicely. Sure, she cried a lot like Hik­age. Is it sup­posed to be com­mon in shojo that the main girl must cry a lot? I really need to read more manga. Hikaru remained strong though. She fought back her tears, learned how to fight, and dealt with ser­i­ous drama.

Up until Ami’s acci­dent, Moe Kare fooled me into think­ing Hikaru and Takara were going to stay together for the rest of the series. Up until the acci­dent, you saw how devoted to each other they were and how much they cared about one another. Whenever Hikaru was with Arata, she’d talk about Takara. Once Takara came, no mat­ter what was going on, she’d instantly run towards him. I pit­ied Arata.  You see how he changes in the scene where he almost has sex with a drunk Hikaru.

In another scene, you see how much he cares for her as well. Des­pite how much he wants her, he’s will­ing to hold back and give her to Takara. Abso­lutely adorable.

When Ami’s acci­dent happened, Hikaru and Takara broke up. Because Takara is too nice for his own good. Man, I just hated him then. It’s nor­mal to feel guilty about Ami’s acci­dent, but to break up with the girl you like to be Ami’s boy­friend? Not right. He could have just vis­ited Ami often. He could have kept his rela­tion­ship with Hikaru. He could have done a lot of things. Instead, Takara and Hikaru give up their vir­gin­ity and he dumps her.

You just have to admire Arata’s determ­in­a­tion to get Hikaru. He got rejec­ted three times. Yet he still chased after her. Good job. When they were together, it had seemed a bit more right than Hikaru and Takara. Hikaru could show all her sides to Arata. Arata opened up to Hikaru. You just knew they belonged together. This scene had me laugh­ing though.

But oh noes~ Takara wants her back. How eas­ily he swayed Hikaru’s feel­ings just made me mad. Arata had to work so hard to get her as his girl­friend, but Takara eas­ily got her to doubt her feel­ings for Arata. Life just sucks for him.

I was relieved to see Hikaru come to her senses and go after Arata. Leave Takara and his stu­pid­ity. If you always wanted her, don’t break her heart and try to force your­self to love someone you don’t.

In the end, I liked how it turned out. If KNIY proved to be just as inter­est­ing, I would have liked the series bet­ter. Moe Kare had made me love both pair­ings, but KNIY wasn’t as fair to the love tri­angle. Hope WxxS proves to be better.