Motomi-madness 2- Dangeki Daisy

1st Motomi Madness review

Yeah those who've read the above will know that I'm doing a series of reviews of mangas by this author, and that they are awesome :D

Dangeki Daisy (pictured right) is about a young girl called Teru, who has no parents and whose brother has been dead for a year. She and her brother were very close, and when he died he gave her a phone with one contact saved, telling her that where he can no longer help her, the mysterious "Daisy" will.

Flash forwards a year and Teru, who can only contact Daisy through her phone, texts him messages every day, purposefully not worrying him when she is bullied or hurt. During one of these incidents, a window gets smashed and she is framed. In order to pay for it, the school Janitor demands that she work for him in her spare time to make up for it...

A bit off-topic from the plot? Yeah I guess it is... This lazy Janitor, the young man Kurosaki who makes Teru do all the work, is actually Daisy. Though that is only revealed to the reader, while Teru remains blissfully unaware that this bullying, lazy Janitor is Daisy.

But, really, this is a love story, and though the series is ongoing, Kurosaki and Teru are getting closer together, though Kurosaki seems to be hiding a lot more than a soft side when in a flashback, it is hinted that he was the one to cause Teru's brother's death.

What starts out a simple story gradually becomes quite complicated as it transpires that various people are out for a secret computer program that Teru's brother was developing, and Daisy turns out to be much more than a shoulder to cry on when a hacker by the same name exposes a teacher's embezzlement scheme.

I'm not gonna lie, it's a weird series, but awesomely so. The artwork, as always for Motomi, is both beautiful and hilarious, and the plotline darkens as the story goes on, without eclipsing the natural light-heartedness of the story's start.

For those who like ravenous romance, Motomi's story's usually have a bit of dark romance as well, in Beast Master (see Motomi Madness 1) is was the relationship between a girl and the most dangerous boy in Japan, and in Dangeki Daisy it's the developing feelings of a high-school girl and a college graduate Janitor with a history.

More Motomi madness next week!

MC out :D