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  Jan 06, 2019 (PST) | Translate to English
  「流れ星に祈って」と姉妹ストーリーだった
  “Pray for a shooting star” was a sister story
  This review contains spoilers. 偶然にも、「流れ星に祈って」を先に読んでおいて良かった。原作を読まないタイプなので、原作者に気が回らず、まさか繋がってる設定とは思いもよらなかった。この順序で正解。しかし、会社名スペンサー・ナイル社2巻目試し読みで登場した時は「！」、ダラスとヒューストンは同じテキサス州だわ、と。それなら読み通そうとと踏み切った。あちらを読んでこちらを読まない手はない。まして、担当漫画家はどちらも私がHQの世界の華やかさ、美しさ、上級経営者の紳士ぶりを表現できると思っている作家。反対に、こっちのストーリーのマックスのキャラが、「？」で、2巻目の試し読みも先に済ませた(いずれも珍しく申し訳程度の驚くべき短さなのだが)ことは、良かったのか悪かったのか。こちらのストーリーが意表を突くもので、かなり私的には楽しめたが、流れ星ーの方で解っていたつもりの彼が見えなくなる反面、違うのでは、との違和感も募り、既読の方での彼が念頭にあるところへこの本作の何かを企む人物像と対立し、物語の趣向に乗り切れないのはある。尤も、予備知識を持たず読んでも、ロマンスの相手役だからなぁとの疑念は抱くだろう。橋本先生の「流れ星ー」が心理描写が視覚的に訴える工夫があるとするなら、こちらは、謎の男という役どころで彼が動くという、裏にある事を抱えるミステリアスストーリーで引っ張る。1巻目を読んだところまででは、騙した騙されたの関係。このなかの真実はどこにあったか、それが2巻目の中央に位置するのかと思われる。星合先生の描かれる男性も、橋本先生の描かれる男性も、どちらも魅力的であり、共通する人物は、両先生の作風が色濃く出ながらも全く違うとも言えない雰囲気も、持ち合わせる。図らずも姉妹作のような両作品を続けて読めて結構楽しんでいる。(登場人物が姉妹なのではなく、作品の一部がが共通するという意味で、姉妹。)2巻目試し読みで見覚えある企業が、そのノン・オーガニック成長戦略とスパイ(？)を？と興味を引いていた。あっちの作品との関連、ヒロインはどこまで信じられるのか、など次巻が楽しみだ。読み直してみて、初見で気になっていたことがやはりまだ残るので書いておく。一頁がひとコマで成り立つ頁がやや多いと感じる。2巻に分かれて贅沢な作りになったかもしれないが、そこを読み手に気にさせたら失敗だ。気にならないように上手く使って欲しい。

  This review contains spoilers. Coincidentally, I'm glad I read “Pray for a Shooting Star” first. I'm the type that doesn't read the original story, so I didn't care about the original author, and I had no idea that the setting was connected. Correct answers in this order. However, when the company name Spencer Nile appeared in the second volume trial reading, “!” Dallas and Houston are in the same Texas state. Then I decided to read it through. There's no way you can't read that one and not read this one. Furthermore, both of the manga artists in charge are writers who think I can express the glamor, beauty, and gentleness of senior managers in the HQ world. On the other hand, Max's character in this story is “?” So, was it good or bad that I finished the trial reading of volume 2 earlier (both are unusually surprisingly short)? This story was surprising, and I was able to enjoy it quite a bit privately, but on the other hand, on the other hand, I was unable to see the guy I intended to understand in the direction of the shooting star, but it also raised a sense of incongruity with the person plotting something in this work to what he had in mind, and there are times when I couldn't get through with the taste of the story. Even if you read it without prior knowledge, you'll probably have doubts that it's because it's a romantic partner. If Hashimoto-sensei's “Shooting Star -” has a way to visually appeal to the psychological depiction, I'll pull it off with a mysterious story that has something behind the scenes, where he moves in the role of a mysterious man. Up to the point where I read the first volume, it's a relationship between being deceived and deceived. Where was the truth in this, and it seems that it is located in the center of volume 2. Both the man drawn by Hoshiai sensei and the man drawn by Mr. Hashimoto are attractive, and the people they have in common have an atmosphere that cannot be said to be completely different even though both teachers' styles are strong. Unintentionally, I enjoy reading both works in a row, which seem like sister works. (The characters are not sisters; they are sisters in the sense that part of the work is common.) A company that looks familiar from the trial reading of volume 2 is its non-organic growth strategy and espionage (?) ? I was intrigued. I'm looking forward to the next volume, such as the connection with that work and how far the heroine can be believed. I reread it, and what I was interested in when I first saw it still remains, so I'll write it down. I feel that there are a few pages where one page is made up of one frame. It may have been split into 2 volumes and made luxuriously, but if you make readers worry about that, it's a failure. I want you to make good use of it so that it doesn't bother you.

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