Monday, April 9, 2018

Welcome to the Ballroom, volume 1

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Today's post is on Welcome to the Ballroom, volume 1 by Tomo Takeuchi. It is the first in her Welcome to the Ballroom series. It is 192 pages long and is published by Kodansha Comics. The cover has the main character Tatara on it. The intended reader is someone who likes sports manga. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- THE BALLROOM BECKONS
Feckless high school student Tatara Fujita wants to be good at something - anything. Unfortunately, he's about as average as a slouchy teen can be. The local bullies know this, and make it a habit to hit him up for cash, but all that changes when the debonair Kaname Sengoku sends them packing. Sengoku's not the neighborhood watch, though. He's a professional ballroom dancer. And once Tatara Fujita gets pulled into the world of the ballroom, his life will never be the same.


Review- An engaging sports manga about an unusual sport. Tatara Fujita is a kid who does not know what he wants to do with his life. But once he comes across ballroom dancing it reaches him. So we have our plot. Tatara is a very normal shonen hero, he is not special in anyway, he is lost about where he wants to go in life, and he likes girls out of his league. But he was not annoying; most shonen heroes can be very annoying, they are too loud or too stupid or too pervy but Tatara is not any of those things. He is just a nice kid who is looking for something to make his life have some kind of meaning. The art is very pretty with the dancing figures and the expressions are excellent. It ends in a cliff hanger as Tatara walks to his first competition as a fill-in for the star. If you are looking for something different in the world of shonen manga, then give this one a try.

I give this volume a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this manga with my own money.

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