0x0 memories

The second review I shall be doing is on the Manga 0X0 Memories, which can be read at mangafox for free; a one shot story, so it is indeed short and would probably take less than an hour to read. 0X0 Memories is about a young girl Tsuda Rei; Rei means Zero in Japanese;  who is in an accident, she was hit in the head by a football (a soccer ball to those who do not know that the Japanese call them footballs), and lost all of her memories. She cannot remember her family, or her childhood friend Ichi (1 in Japanese). While reading you find out that it is Kujou-san (kujou if I am not mistaken is 19.. I am seeing an odd pattern here XD) who kicked the soccer ball that hit Rei. Kujou offers Rei any help he can offer, this kindness we see irks Ichi who clearly crushes on Rei but probably never said anything about his attraction beforehand. In the first few pages we also meet Rei’s female friend, Nanami (depending on the characters used means 7 sea, beauty, life, or fruit it doesn’t show the characters for her name so I am not sure the direct translation) who is seems very filled with energy and would be one of those girls in real life that you need to concentrate when she speaks just to keep up with her.

Through the one shot we see a one-sided tension between Rei and Ichi, Ichi clearly likes Rei but refuses to tell her anything of her life, he wants her to remember everything herself.  He comes off as a jerk but his intentions are good. You also see his jealousy when Kujou-san tells Rei not to worry about the past that the future is more important. Not that I would agree with his words, both are important,  you do not want to be held back by the past but to forget the past is to forget what made you who you are.   Due to Kujou’s words Ichi works harder to help Rei recover her past memories, he brings her 16 years worth of photo albums for her to look at hoping it would trigger something. Along with juice, but this doesn’t trigger any memories, just her taste buds. Her family even tries to help by giving her all her favorite foods, hoping that something will trigger her memories.

Not to give to much away, so that you all will actually read the manga, it is a cute manga, with drama, a love triangle, the art work isn’t 100 % but it still has the Shōjo sense to it. Big, curious eyes. For those of you that don’t know what Shōjo is it is manga marketed toward female audiences, so they do not tend to base the whole thing on fan service it goes more for the plot.  I give this manga a 7 out of 10 rating, recommended for those who want a quick read but if you want  a really good romance plot you will only get fluff here.

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