“Ooookaaaay.... am I the only one who thinks this manga is a parody of itself? Yet, for the purposes of this review I shall treat it as if the author was serious... despite the fact I laughed the entire way through.
It has enough cliche's to drown itself in and focuses on the fact that outer beauty is more important than inner beauty. Anorexia is encouraged, stated as a way to become beautiful. The main character is shallow, rather bland, and very vain. I found myself liking the ko-gal more than Ai, despite her whore-ish ways and unbelievably stereotypical actions.
It's the classic story; ugly girl wants to begin life anew. So turns herself beautiful (assuming, as the book does, that all girls can become beautiful if they only tried *wangst wangst*), enrolls in a different school and is immediately loved and drooled after by pretty much everyone. I was hesitantly beginning to like So when it turned out he was a bit of a man-whore, rather violent, possessive, and manipulative. He seemed very flawed for a love-interest (and one that was chosen on his looks of all things) but then he defied my hopes and ended up dropping all his other ho's because he wanted to be closer to Ai.
If you want a good laugh at cliche situations, horrendous dialogue, and unbelievably stereotypical characters then pick up Doubt! Otherwise, ignore it and move onto a better shojo manga. ”
BarkingPup wrote this review Thursday, August 20, 2009.
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