Wild Ones 1-3 by Kiyo FUJIWARA
(…Why yes, I’m catching up on manga reviews, thanks for asking!)
Wild Ones, at first glance, seems to be the prettier cousin of Gokusen. Sachie WAKAMURA, whose mother has recently passed away, is taken in by a grandfather whom she has never met. Turns out, the grandfather is the head of a yakuza family, and Sachie, as his precious heir, is assigned a bodyguard in the form of Rakuto, a young member of the ‘family.’
I’m not gonna lie to you — I didn’t like Wild Ones. I think the art style is fairly bland and plain (the pretty covers totally suckered me in!) and even worse, the storyline really has nothing going for it. Sachie is beautiful and noble and perfect and Rakuto is handsome and strong and protecting… Blah blah. They’re perfect for each other but there’s always some silly thing that Sachie contrives up to bar their relationship from moving to the next step, even as she walks on him naked in the bath every other day, it seems.
Another thing which irritated me about this series was how the mangaka would recap FOR EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER what’s going on. Um, okay, if I’ve been reading your story for these past how many volumes, you’d think I’d know what was going on.
I wished that I could like this series more, but for the sake of my wallet, I think I’m going to stop reading here.