Since there are no reviews yet... This anhua is a cute brightlycolored shorttomedium length read in which everyone has some sort of botanical disease where they take on the traits of a particular plant like plant Xmen. There is a cactus boy and a tumbleweed boy and they have crushes on each other. Story/Plot: If you really like sliceoflife school stories where cute boys are in love act cute and blush a lot this might be very enjoyable for you Unfortunately the genre is pretty hit or miss for me. If there is a good plot or at least a dramatic plot I can sometimes get into it but this particular manga doesnt have much of a storyline at all. The supernatural elements seems to only ever be used for laughs and even the romantic element isnt particularly interesting to me since its just the two main characters crushing on each other. The other problem I had is that none of the plot that did exist seemed to have any consequences or go anywhere. Its just silly little comedy setups which I can enjoy sometimes but not when it feels like there is no emotional weight whatsoever. For example theres a couple of chapters where they have to eat fertilizer and jokes are made about how cactus thinks this is gross and tries to get rid of it. Nothing of consequence comes from this. Then theres a chapter where cactus has to do a beauty streamers makeup and he does a bad job. Nothing of consequence comes from this either. If you stop enjoying the humor which I did pretty quickly the manga just starts feeling repetitive and bland. Characters: I struggled to find the main characters enjoyable or interesting as well as they both fall into tropes Im personally not fond of. The cactus is a bumbling straight man type who gets super awkward when his crush is around this stopped being funny to me after the first quarter of the manga. The tumbleweed was fun in the beginning but started coming across as the teen girl tumblr fantasy of a gay boy as time passed. Neither of them get much actual development so they end up both being onenote imo. There are a few other characters including cactuss guy friend tumbleweeds guy friend and the beauty streamer neesan and her girl?friend. I got to about chapter 15 so maybe this changes later but the two guy friends had almost no point besides to enable jokes for the two main characters and the girls werent faring too much better. Art: The art style is brightly colored and cheerful nice if you want something to lighten your mood. However the character designs are pretty generic as anime characters go and theres an odd shape to how faces are handled that Im just personally not into. It looks like the same art as Whose Baby Is It which I also found tolerable artwise. Concluding Thoughts: I also read and dropped Whose Baby Is It? which is by the same author and they feel very similar to me despite the different premises and Whose Baby Is It having a slightly stronger storyline initially. I think this style of lighthearted looselyplotted romance manga is just not my thing. I would say that people who like Botanic Romance will also probably like Whose Baby Is It? and vice versa. In terms of Chinese schoolthemed BLs I had a better time with which is less outright silly and has some other plot going on besides kawaii romance tropes.
40 /100
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