World Famous Comics: Hana-Kimi, Vol. 23 (Hana-Kimi)
Hana-Kimi, Vol. 23 (Hana-Kimi)
By: hisaya Nakajo Publisher: VIZ Media LLC Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: VIZ Media LLC Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 192 Publication Date: April 15, 2008 Reading Level: Young Adult
Mizuki's secret is exposed...and her days at Osaka High School are numbered. Can she keep the friends she made as a boy...and does she have a future with Sano after graduation? The flowers of youth are scattered to the winds in the bittersweet final volume of
Hana-Kimi 23 I loved it but i'm sad it's over. i hope her and sano stay together and get married :)
Horrid Ending I was very upset by the ending. I have been collecting Hana-Kimi since it was first released and waited anxiously for each book to come out. The books kept getting better and better. The ending, book 23, happened to be a bomb. The pace is vigorous and all of the sudden a fairy tale occurs. Every character acts OUT of character and then another magical event at the end. It is rather random! I couldn't believe the way it ended. As others have said, the art was not up to par as well.
Just plane dull I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one disappointed with the last volume of Hana Kimi. The volume seemed very rushed, everything just sort of happened and you got no details. The art was way different, beautiful non the less, but many of the characters didn't look like themselves. And the ending in general just plane dull and disappointing, for all the wonderful volumes before (and all the money most of us spent on the series) this one was just not worth it.
A very weak ending! What a lame ending to an otherwise good series. I won't post any spoilers of the story, but I will point out that in the early pages, almost everyone is drawn so quickly (i.e., with lack of detail) that I had problems figuring out who was who. I know there's a term for this but I can't remember what it is. When the characters are drawn sort of chibi and with just a few lines to express the face. Lots and lots of this in the beginning.
Later drawings of Nanba and Nakatsu (more than the others) seemed to be drawn different from former volumes - subtly different enough that I was especially confused about Nakatsu. He looked quite different. There seemed to be a lot more art and a lot less dialogue in this issue and I felt that it was sort of hurriedly done, or, since the series was ending, the mangaka did not put too much effort into the whole thing. I was very disappointed.
On the whole I give Hana Kimi a 7 out of ten but this volume is more like a 2.
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