Due to some extenuating circumstances, he is now being tutored by one of the many school idiots, Hikaru “Beyan” Kusakabe. Perhaps Volume 2 will slow down and give me more of what I want? Suppose I’ll have to wait and see.Rihito Sajou, a hyperventilating overachiever, winds up attending a high school where the only requirement for graduation is knowing how to write your name. If you’re not much into requiring a deeper, emotional plot I can see how Classmates is easy to pick up and simply enjoy. Her art style is reminiscent of some of CLAMP’s work, but with more accurate body proportions. There are also plenty of tight close-ups where facial expressions elevate Nakamura’s art. The backgrounds are actually pretty empty, but you can still easily tell where the boys are and what’s going on around them. The boys are all gangly but their body lines are drawn with smooth, simplistic strokes. One thing that did stand out to me was Nakamura’s art style. It would all be amusing if the overall story had a stronger backbone. I almost felt like the multiple kissing scenes were there just to please fans, and sometimes even the characters themselves seem to objectively remark about certain aspects of the boys’ love genre – like using manga as a how-to guide. I felt like there was so much potential for emotional moments which were instead glazed over. Meanwhile the plot is pedal to the metal at progressing their “relationship,” but nothing ever really happens.
Within just this first volume one full year passes, and neither boy has any real character growth. This tease sounds like it could be the beginning of any budding romance, but it’s what happens afterwards that dropped me out of the story. Hikaru happens upon Rihito practicing alone for an upcoming choir performance, and once the show comes to an end, the two strike up a friendship which becomes more. He’s the outgoing type while the object of his affection, Rihito, is the smart and studious type with glasses and not many friends. For starters, pretty-boy band member Hikaru finds himself attracted to another boy at his all boy’s school. However, I was personally underwhelmed.Ĭlassmates does have all of the fundamentals down for sure. The idea was to make it the “f” of fundamentals, the “b” of basics, something naïve, reckless, impatient,” and she succeeded. When author, Asumiko Nakamura, was writing Classmates: Dou Kyu Sei she says, “I wanted to go with something cliché, almost hackneyed.
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