Manga Mumbles - The Wallflower

The Wallflower is a 36 volume story about Sunako, a hermit with the love of slasher and horror films is being forced into being a lady by four beautiful men on behalf of her Aunt and their landlady. This greatly upsets Sunako as she rebels against their every advancement of change in order to gain their chance at free rent.

This is the easiest synopsis about the story I can write and we meet a few characters that help change Sunako but does she really become a lady?

I read this series years ago, from 1 to about 12 and thought it sounded amazing. Then, with help from my amazing partner, I got the first 16 and then finally 17 and 36. With all the mangas bought, I decided to binge read the series I enjoyed when I was in my teens and I was sorely disappointed and that saddens me a lot.

Now, before I continue, this is going to be a spoiler filled review about The Wallflower.

Honestly, there is nothing that can't be ruined about this series cause it's 36 volumes of the same thing over and over with different looks and situations.

Yes, I wasted about a month reading this series thinking that something is going to change and the sad thing is, it doesn't change there is no conclusion, there is no ending and there is no real story progress or change.

I was hoping that maybe Sunako, at the end, would play the role of the lady when needed but remained true to herself, maybe even start a relationship with Kyohei, even if it's a small one where they both realise they have feelings and go "Sure, maybe it can work" instead of the "deny, deny, deny" relationship they have.

The only real character developments happen with the minor characters, their relationships grow, they become more interesting people, they actually become more interesting than Sunako, who is the main protagonist. This is saying a lot.

I felt like the story and characters had a lot of potential but it fell flat.

I want to agree so much that I liked this series, I did, for the first 12 volumes. Then it was like reading the same first twelve volumes over and over for the next 24 volumes. I sadly don't like this series, like I said before, had so much going for it but failed and it makes me sad, considering I spent so much on buying a series that barely had any satisfying aspects at the end. I mean, if I can read seven volumes of a manga within 1 day and about a week to read 6, it's saying a lot about this series.

I can't even bring myself to review each individual volume cause each one would be like, read volume X to get the same feeling as volume Y did. Even Devil Survivor that has 8 volumes gave me more satisfaction than this series ever did. Sorry Wallflower fans but I once use to enjoy the series but there is so much I don't like about it.

For example, how every female character wants to bang the four main males. That is unreasonable, I find it funny at first but after the first hundred times, it gets so annoying and boring, like all there is to them is their looks and I couldn't really enjoy them as characters.

I would have liked Sunako but something about her irked me after a while, especially when she wants to do right by her aunt but wouldn't even enter a middle ground where she could still be herself but played the role of a lady.

Noi and the Princess characters were kind of good but fell flat since they were partnered with very flat male characters, same with Machiko.

Then we have the gold digging, man-hunting Aunt that basically left a bunch of stupid children to run a house and are really unable to look after themselves. Then again, I never liked vain characters like her anyway.

It's hard to enjoy a story that is stuck in a loop and never progresses, characters that barely progress and the art style is okay but it feels really boring after the first few repetitions of the volumes.

What would I give for this series? a 2 out of 5 bookmarks.

It had great potential but it just fell through, it felt like nothing really changed for me, sure little bits did but not enough to really warrant praise.