Reviews for Pearl Pink, Volume 3

The average rating for Pearl Pink, Volume 3 based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-07-24 00:00:00 Alastair Ineson "I have to do it for me." ONLY for Tamako to take a step back the moment Kanji shows up. Literally. I just don't know what this manga wants to be-heck I don't think the manga even knows what it wants to be. It's marketed as a rom com, and yeah, it's got comedy. But it's more like something you'd find in Hana Kimi or Ouran, which would be great, if it all flowed right. Pearl Pink seems unable to discern what path it should take despite the fact that Tamako and Kanji have to get together. Tamako is now 15 and Kanji is 18.....and now they're in a relationship. I mean, fine, just 3 years but she's a minor she still has to grow, and despite how "mature" Kanji seems, he's still a young man. He's gonna have hormonal spikes. And when the mother teases her daughter that she can do whatever she wants so long as she doesn't get pregnant..... And Tamako GURL what are you doing?! She nearly strips all the way for some director (who was only joking) but she's 15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just. Can't. One more volume. I kind of want Rain and Tamako to happen cuz you know, they kissed for the movie and they're practically the same age.....

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-28 00:00:00 Jim Overman 2.5 stars. There are only 4 books in this series, and I happened to buy them all, so I figured I'd finish reading them before sending it back to the used book store. This series is a bit all over the place. The premise that the heroine is the secret child of a TV star is summarily dismissed with little fanfare in this novel. Not clear why she can't then go live with her mother rather than her mother's agent and his son, but it seems at this point the goal was to keep the series alive. This volume also resolves the painful premise that everything the heroine does is to become the woman the hero will love, and though a nice guy (with a fetish for dressing young girls up in pretty clothes) he knows this and encourages it. Here, the heroine finally has the stunning epiphany that maybe she should focus on who she wants to be and he should accept her for who she is.