They apparently don't have any system of checking her ID or anything. First off, she somehow manages to apply and get into a boy's school in another country. The problems I have with this are plentiful. Not only that but she's American, so she freaking moves to Japan to do this. And it's not so much a crush as that she's just obsessed with his high jumping skills. She is attending as a school dressed as a boy not because she needs a scholarship or to play a sport, but because she has a crush on a boy who goes to that school. Gender benders are among my favorite plot lines, but they have been done better than in Hana-Kimi. It's not awful, and it's still entertaining, but it doesn't stand out at all. I reread it a couple of years ago and I was seriously disappointed, since I remembered enjoying it so much. I was so involved and I was shipping Mizuki with Sano so hard. Literally, I think it was like the third manga I ever read. The first time was in 2008 when I first discovered the wonder of manga. I've actually read this manga a couple of times. Read the full review at A Reader of Fictions. My third read through is a bit more balanced, seeing both the good and the bad. Thus, I later had to reread it, only to find it didn’t live up to my memories of it, now that I had a larger basis for comparison. It was one of the first I picked up and I was IN LOVE with it completely. Early on in my manga obsession, which began in the summer of 2008, I read Hana-Kimi. I’ve actually read Hana-Kimi twice before, so this was both nostalgic and somewhat eye-opening.
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